Unit 2 Plan
Economics Systems: Capitalism, Industrialization and Reform
1) Beginnings
of Industrialization, pages 253-257 (20 points) due
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a)
What is the
Industrial Revolution.
b)
What were enclosures?
What did large landowners who bought up all the land force small farmers to do?
c)
List the
advantages that made the industrial revolution to happen in Britain first.
d)
Define Factors
of Production.
e)
In what industry
did major new inventions first bring industrialization? What was the Spinning
Jenny?
f)
Where were the
first factories located?
Why?
g)
What is an
entrepreneur?
h)
What invention
did James Watt improve?
What did this invention allow Robert Fulton to do in 1807?
i)
In what country
and between what cities did worlds’ first railroads run? Around when were
they built?
2) Industrialization Spreads, pages 263-266 (20
points) due
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a)
What did England
do to prevent the spread of the secrets of industrialization?
b)
What did Francis
Cabot Lowel do in 1813?
c)
Understand the
general timing of American industrialization. Study the railroad maps and notice the
dates.
d)
Why did
entrepreneurs sell stocks?
What is a corporation?
e)
How did big
businesses increase their profits?
f)
What European
nation led the way in adopting Britain’s new industrial technologies? What nation came
next?
g)
What factors
prevented some European nations from industrializing? (top of 266)
h)
Understand
industrialization and global inequality. How did industrialization lead to
colonization?
i)
How did the
industrial revolution lead to demands for greater democracy?
3) An Age
of Reform, pages 267 – 272 (20 points) due
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a)
Define laissez
faire. What
did Adam Smith argue in his book? What was the book
called? What is capitalism?
b)
What did Malthus argue?
c)
Utilitarianism is a philosophy
that argues that government should promote what?
d)
What is socialism? What do socialists
say the government should do in the economy?
e)
What did Karl
Marx write? What
did he say the Industrial Revolution was causing? What is communism?
f)
What are unions? What is collective
bargaining? What
do workers do in a strike?
g)
What did the Factory
Act of 1833 prohibit?
h)
Describe what
other kinds of reform movements came about in response to the changes of
industrialization? What
did Jane Addams do? Horace
Mann?
4) Economic Change Poster Assignment (45 points) due
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You will receive a detail assignment
sheet for this poster.
Some work will be done in class, but most of the work on the poster has
to happen on your own time for homework.
5) Economic
Change Written Test (50 points) due
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This is a short answer and
identification/definition exam about all topics in the unit. It is open note.
You will receive a study guide.
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