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| 54856071 | Where does the Industrial Revolution begin | Great Britain (because agricultural productivity was high, skilled craftsmen were numerous, deposits of coal and iron were abundant, navigable rivers and networks of canals, liberal governments took favorably to this) | 0 | |
| 54856072 | What new textile threatened the wool industry? | cotton weaving | 1 | |
| 54856073 | British Calico Acts (1701 and 1721) | ways to limit cotton; prohibited imports of printed cotton cloth and restricted the sale of calicoes at home | 2 | |
| 54856074 | John Kay | invented the flying shuttle (this device speeded up the weaving process and stimulated demand for thread) | 3 | |
| 54856075 | Samuel Crompton | invented the "mule", this device turned out stronger, higher quality thread than any human could provide | 4 | |
| 54856076 | Edmund Cartwright | a clergyman without experience in either mechanics or textile; invented a power loom that inaugurated an era of mechanical weaving | 5 | |
| 54856077 | James Watt | invented the general purpose steam engine in 1765; he was an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow in Scotland; his steam engines burned coal to boil water and create steam, which drove mechanical devices that performed work | 6 | |
| 54856078 | How is coke used in smelting iron? | coke is a purified form of coal; made it possible to build bigger blast furnaces and turn out larger lots of iron | 7 | |
| 54856079 | Henry Bessemer | invents the process to mass produce steel (1856) | 8 | |
| 54856080 | George Stephenson's (THE ROCKET) | he invented to first steam powered locomotive (1815); this machine still burned too much coal like Watt's invention | 9 | |
| 54856081 | Luddites | Between 1811 and 1856 organized band of English craftsmen went on a rampage and destroyed textile machines that they blamed for their low wages and unemployment | 10 | |
| 54856082 | Eli Whitney | an american inventor; best remembered for the cotton gin; developed the technique of using interchangeable parts in the making of firearms | 11 | |
| 54856083 | Impact of IR on the family | moved economic work outside the home; families worked together in factories; men gained increasing stature and responsibility | 12 | |
| 54856084 | Holy Monday | a day when men stayed home to lengthen their weekly break from work on Sunday | 13 | |
| 54856085 | New Lanark | a socialist community; Robert Owen converted a small Scottish town into a model industrial town. His stress on cooperative control of industry and his advocacy of improved education left a lasting impression on socialist traditions | 14 | |
| 54856086 | Karl Marx and Frederick Engels | wrote "The Communists Manifesto"; most prominent 19th century socialists; said capitalism divided people into two classes: people who owned industrial machinery and those who worked for them | 15 | |
| 54856087 | Proletariat | wage workers who only had their labor to sell | 16 | |
| 54856088 | Bourgeoisie | factory owners | 17 | |
| 54856089 | "opiate of the masses" | Marx's reference; encouraged workers to focus on a hypothetical realm of existence beyond this world rather than try to improve their lot in society | 18 | |
| 54856090 | Zaibatsu | hugh industrial powers ("wealthy cliques") in Southeast Asia | 19 | |
| 54856091 | Count Sergei Wittei | finance adminstrator to the Russian industry | 20 | |
| 54856092 | Mines Act of 1842 | the prohibition of underground employment for women as well as for boys under the age of 10 | 21 | |
| 54856093 | Factory Act of 1833 | British governments regulation of hours and conditions of work pertaining to women and children | 22 | |
| 54856094 | Otto Von Bismarck | unifies southern and Northern Germany; under his leadership Germany introduced medical insurance, unemployment compensation, and retirement pensions | 23 | |
| 54856095 | Trade Unions | over the long run gradually improved the lives of working people and reduced the likelihood that a disgruntled proletariat would mount a revolution to overthrow industrial capitalist society | 24 | |
| 54856096 | World's major oil producer in 1900 | Russia | 25 |
