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| 139012676 | Sadler Commission | Parliamentary investigation/report on child labor; children were overworked, frequently beaten, fatigued, sick, depressed | 0 | |
| 139012677 | Chartists | Reformers that wanted changes: universal male suffrage; the secret ballot; and payment for members of Parliament, so that even workingmen could afford to enter politics. | 1 | |
| 139012678 | tariff | tax on imported goods | 2 | |
| 139012679 | capital | wealth in the form of money, property or tools | 3 | |
| 139012681 | textiles | Woven or machine-knitted fabrics | 4 | |
| 139012683 | handloom weavers | cottage industry workers that continued to work in their homes experiencing decades of declining trade and growing poverty in their unsuccessful competition with power looms and water frames | 5 | |
| 139012685 | James Watt | improved the steam engine making it a revolutionary invention that would transform society | 6 | |
| 139012702 | Thomas Malthus | supported the idea that the population would always be greater than the food supply so he promoted the concept of smaller families | 7 | |
| 139012703 | David Ricardo | believed that people's salaries should only be enough to avoid starvation -also known as the "The Iron Law of Wages" | 8 | |
| 139012705 | Robert Owen | Scottish manufacturer who fought against child labor and began an early union resulting in the concept socialism; give up choices to be protected by a superior | 9 | |
| 139012708 | suffrage | the right to vote | 10 | |
| 139012711 | Richard Arkright | inventor of water frame that brought water power to textile making; developed the early factory system | 11 | |
| 139016246 | Corn Laws | forbid the import of foreign grain which allowed wealthy English landowners to keep grain prices high | 12 | |
| 139016247 | nouveau riche | those with newly acquired wealth, the wealth was often flaunted in industrial England; the "new rich" | 13 | |
| 139016248 | socialism | advocates that government control of the means of production (resources); recognizes the existence of social classes | 14 | |
| 139016249 | communism | advocates that government control of the means of production (resources); does NOT believe social classes should exist because they will bring about war or class conflict | 15 | |
| 139016250 | Luddites | group of British workers between 1811 and 1816 that rioted and destroyed textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would eliminate their employment | 16 | |
| 139016251 | bourgeoisie | the capitalist class during the Industrial Revolution--OWNS the means of production | 17 | |
| 139016252 | proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | 18 |
