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5992231919"Enclosure Movement"Fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution.0
5992231920"PuttingOut System" - System of merchant-capitalists "putting out" raw materials to cottage workers for processing and payment.1
5992231921Mass ProductionManufacture of large quantities of standardized products, frequently utilizing assembly line technology.2
5992231922Division of LaborAssignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.3
5992231923MechanizationProcess of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.4
5992231924CokeCoal from which impurities have been cooked out.5
5992231925PuddlingUsed coke to burn away impurities in iron and produce an iron of high quality.6
5992231926Crystal PalaceCast-iron and plate-glass structure.7
5992231927Steam EngineEngine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.8
5992231928"Cotton Kingdom"The cotton-producing region of the southern United States up until the Civil War.9
5992231929Business CyclesSeries of cycles of economic expansion and contraction.10
5992231930"Cult of Domesticity"Term used by some historians to describe what they consider to have been a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States and Great Britain.11
5992231931"LaissezFaire" - Policy of letting things take their own course, without interfering.12
5992231932UtilitarianismDoctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.13
5992231933PositivismPhilosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof.14
5992231934Utopian SocialismSocialism achieved by the moral persuasion of capitalists to surrender the means of production peacefully to the people.15
5992231935Universal Male SuffrageForm of voting rights in which all adult males within a political system are allowed to vote, regardless of income, Josiah Wedgwood - English potter and entrepreneur.16
5992231936Richard ArkwrightInventor and leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.17
5992231937Eli WhitneyAmerican inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.18
5992231938James WattScottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in the industry.19
5992231939Alessandro VoltaInventor of the electrical battery, discovered methane.20
5992231940Samuel MorseAmerican painter and inventor.21
5992231941Adam SmithOne of the world's most famous economists.22
5992231942Spinning JennyMachine for spinning with more than one spindle at a time.23
5992231943Water FrameWater-powered spinning frame.24
5992231944Cotton GinMachine for separating cotton from its seeds.25
5992231945Electric TelegraphApparatus for communication at a distance by coded signals.26
5992231946Industrial RevolutionRapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries.27
5992231947Agricultural RevolutionPeriod of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe.28
5992231948The "Hungry Forties"The European Potato Failure.29
5992231949Factory Act of 1833No child workers under nine years of age.30
5992231950Mines Act of 1842Prohibited all children under ten years old from working underground in coal mines.31
5992231951Corn Laws (and their repeal)Corn Laws were measures enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846, which imposed restrictions and tariffs on imported grain. They were designed to keep grain prices high to favour domestic producers.32

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