Industrial Revolution: Stearns Chapter 24
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| 312396589 | Proto-Industrilization | the employment of laborers who worked at home but in a capitalist system dependent on urban merchants | 0 | |
| 312396590 | Capital | wealth invested on an economic endeavor | 1 | |
| 312396591 | Spinning Jenny | multi-spool spinning frame device that reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. | 2 | |
| 312396592 | Mass Production | the manufacture of many identical products by a division of labor into many small repetitive tasks | 3 | |
| 312396593 | Steam Engine | a machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion-mechanical energy | 4 | |
| 312396594 | Cotton Gin | machine that separated the cotton from seeds | 5 | |
| 312396595 | Bourgeoisie | new class of urban people whose wealth came from manufacturing, commerce and banking | 6 | |
| 312396596 | Division of Labor | manufacturing technique that breaks down a craft into many simple and repetitive tasks performed by unskilled workers. | 7 | |
| 312396597 | Factory System | industrial unit or place of work for manufacturing goods | 8 | |
| 312396598 | Cult domesticity or separate spheres | 19th century idea in Western societies that women and men, particularly from the middle class, should have clearly differentiated roles in society-women should be wives, mothers and homemakers | 9 | |
| 312396599 | Utopia | ideal or perfect society | 10 | |
| 312396600 | Laissez faire | the idea that government should refrain from interfering into economic affairs | 11 | |
| 312396601 | Outlaw | to ban or prohibit | 12 | |
| 312396602 | Predominance | supremacy, to control | 13 | |
| 312396603 | Capitalistic | refers to capitalism-An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market | 14 | |
| 312396604 | Abject poverty | extreme poverty | 15 |
