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| 2236131044 | Causes of the Industrial revolution | 1. population boom-more people to make goods 2. new technology-iron 3. 2nd agricultural revolution | 0 | |
| 2236131045 | Thomas Newcomen; James Watt | person who invented the steam engine; man who improved the steam engine | 1 | |
| 2236131046 | Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England? | they had the proper resources (coal, water and iron) and a stable economy; rivers for transportation and harbors for ships; also had land, labor and capital ( money) | 2 | |
| 2236131047 | George Stephenson | man who built the world's first railroads | 3 | |
| 2236131048 | Impact of the Locomotive | cheap transportation for goods and people, jobs for miners and railroad workers | 4 | |
| 2236131049 | Robert Fulton | man who built the Clearmont steamboat | 5 | |
| 2236131050 | Life during the industrial revolution | city crowding, tough working conditions, women and child labor; 14 hour days/ 6 days a week | 6 | |
| 2236131051 | Describe the factory system | lots of hours, child labor, unsafe | 7 | |
| 2236131052 | Impact of the IR on people | good-new jobs, new inventions, urbanization bad-city crowding, divisions of classes, rough working conditions | 8 | |
| 2236131053 | Laissez Faire | idea of hands off economy | 9 | |
| 2236131054 | Thomas Malthus | man who decided that population will outpace food supply: need war, famine, disaster to keep population in check | 10 | |
| 2236131055 | David Ricardo | man who came up with the iron law of wages (more money you have the more children you will have) | 11 | |
| 2236131056 | Utilitarianism | group who believed in the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people (followers included Bentham and Mill) | 12 | |
| 2236131057 | Socialism | the idea that people should own the mean of production; government owned farms, factories, railways, large businesses | 13 | |
| 2236131058 | Means of production | factories, machines, and tools (things needed to produce wealth) | 14 | |
| 2236131059 | Communism | the system where everyone is equal; no government | 15 | |
| 2236131060 | Karl Marx; Communist Manifesto | man who wrote the .......; ..... is where he outlined the Communist idea where everyone is equal and there is no government because of equality for all | 16 | |
| 2236131061 | Proletariat | the workers in the system of Communism (outlined in the Communist Manifesto) | 17 | |
| 2236131062 | Bourgeoisie | the owners in the system of Communism (outlines in the Communist Manifesto) | 18 | |
| 2236131063 | Reasons for population growth | advances in medicine (inoculation against smallpox), sanitation improvements, increase in food supply reduced famines and epidemics, improvement in transportation | 19 | |
| 2236131064 | The Enclosure movement | English landowners passed the Enclosure Acts forbidding peasants' access to common lands; enclosed lands with fences or hedges; small farmers forced to become tenant farmers or move to cities. | 20 | |
| 2236131065 | Charles "Turnip" Townshend | Four field system for crop rotation | 21 | |
| 2236131066 | Jethro Tull | replaced wasteful broadcast method with well spaced rows planted methodically | 22 | |
| 2236131067 | Selective Breeding | Selected animals with the best characteristics; produced bigger breeds; lambs went from 18 to 50 lbs. | 23 | |
| 2236131068 | Most important industry in England | Textiles; most of the work was done at home. | 24 | |
| 2236131069 | The spinning Jenny | Powered spinning through horses or water | 25 | |
| 2236131070 | Eli Whitney | The cotton gin removed seeds in cotton instead of by hand | 26 | |
| 2236131071 | Richard Trevithick's Engine | First attached a steam engine to a wagon; not successful in moving people | 27 | |
| 2236131072 | Liverpool and Manchester Railway | was the first widely used steam train | 28 | |
| 2236131073 | Middle Class | newly formed; wealthy factory owners, shipper, merchants, social class of skilled workers, professionals, business people, wealthy farmers, | 29 | |
| 2236131074 | Upper middle class | government employees, doctors, lawyers, managers, | 30 | |
| 2236131075 | Lower middle class | factory overseers, toolmakers, printers | 31 | |
| 2236131076 | Colonies | supplied raw materials and finished goods to England | 32 | |
| 2236131077 | Britain leads IR | Iron and Coal, Navigable river system, commercial infrastructure, colonies raw materials and finished goods, Government encouraged improvements in transportation, used navy to protect trade. | 33 | |
| 2236131078 | The Luddites | lead riots over machine replacing their jobs | 34 | |
| 2236131079 | Positive effect of IR | created jobs, contributed to wealth, increased production, fostered technological advances, raised standard of living, better housing, healthier diets, cheaper clothing, education | 35 | |
| 2236131080 | The Mills of Manchester | unplanned city growth, pollution, poisoned river | 36 | |
| 2236131081 | Scavengers and piecers | children as young as 6 years old, malnourished, beatings, runaways sent to prison | 37 | |
| 2236131082 | Factory Act of 1833 | limited child labor and the number of hours children could work in textile mills | 38 | |
| 2236131083 | Spread of IR to America | War of 1812 blocked international trade and forced US to develop industries, new inventions, railroads, corporations - monopolies | 39 | |
| 2236131084 | Monopolies | Standard Oil by Rockefeller Carnegie Steel by Carnegie | 40 | |
| 2236131085 | Samuel F. B. Morse | the telegraph | 41 | |
| 2236131086 | Thomas Edison | electricity | 42 | |
| 2236131087 | Nicholas Tela (electric coil or Tesla Coil) | perfected the principles of alternating current | 43 |
