tax on imported goods | ||
wealth in the form of money, property or tools | ||
the ability of workers to freely move from job to job | ||
Woven or machine-knitted fabrics | ||
A machine that could spin several threads at once-advanced textile industry | ||
these people continued to work in their homes experiencing decades of declining trade and growing poverty in their unsuccessful competition with power looms | ||
A person who works for another in order to learn a trade | ||
improved the steam engine | ||
1851 World's first industrial fair. Held at the Crystal Palace in London | ||
Word that refers to the European mainland | ||
the first effective locomotive | ||
Group of people who fought against the new industrial world | ||
A Political reform movement, that favored universal man suffrage and secret ballots | ||
outlawed unions and strikes | ||
19th century notion that men and women had distinct and different traditional roles | ||
someone who is hired to do all or part of the work for the primary contractor | ||
French bank used savings of thousands of investors in transportation and indusry | ||
champion of working class who wrote that society's problems were caused by the middle class who he called murderers and robbers | ||
poet who wrote of the plight of the poor | ||
equipment that used coke to superheat iron ore for refinement | ||
coal superheated to remove impurities | ||
called for nations to support the industry in their countries | ||
inventor of the steam engine | ||
mineral that replaced charcoal as fuel thereby providing the stimulus for growth in the Industrial Revolution | ||
supported the idea that the population would always be greater than the food supply so advised smaller families | ||
wrote that people's salaries would only be enough to avoid starvation-The Iron Law of Wages | ||
made the point that the Industrial Revolution allowed workers to afford new luxuries | ||
Scottish manufacturer who fought against child labor and began an early union | ||
the attitude that a household should be headed by a male | ||
organization dedicated to improving working conditions and wages of workers | ||
the right to vote | ||
German who tried to bring English manufacturing technology to Germany | ||
limited hours that young children could work | ||
inventor of water frame that brought water power to textile making | ||
Brought British inventions and workers to Belgium to begin Europe's textile industry |
Ch. 22-Industrial Revolution
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