Across
- 7. The working class
- 10. Large businesses that produce and distribute goods
- 14. Workers' organizations
- 15. An economic system based on private ownership and profit motivation
- 16. System that caused farmers to leave their land and move to cities
- 18. Money used to invest in new businesses
- 19. David Ricardo believed that ____ increases wouldn't raise a family's standard of living
- 20. Nation that was the first to industrialize
- 22. German philosopher who predicted a struggle between social classes, resulting in a classless society
- 23. During the Industrial Revolution, people migrated from rural areas to _____.
Down
- 1. A mechanical device that increased farm output
- 2. The middle class
- 3. Those who manage and assume the financial risk of new businesses
- 4. A series of child labor reform laws
- 5. An economic system in which there is even distribution of wealth
- 6. An economic system in which the government owns the means of production
- 8. Machine that was developed in response to the booming textile industry; led to increased cotton production
- 9. The idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number"
- 11. The movement of people to cities
- 12. Thomas Malthus predicted wrongly that the population would outpace ____ supply
- 13. Since children had helped work on the _____, parents accepted the idea of child labor
- 17. Men often lost their factory and mining jobs to women and ______ because they would work for lower wages.
- 21. The first factories developed in the ______ industry, replacing the putting-out system