323093605 | Industrial Revolution | mass production of goods by machine; began late 1700s and ended 1800/1900s | 0 | |
323093606 | Population growth | caused by new crops, immigration, people marry at younger age, resist disease | 1 | |
323093607 | Trade | growing trade and production infl. by pop. growth; sugar, silk, cotton, porcelain imports; tech. | 2 | |
323093608 | Enclosure Act | consolidate lands, tenants become landless farm workers and move to cities | 3 | |
323093609 | Rivers and canals | easy transport, water power, trade routes | 4 | |
323093610 | Why Britain? | leading exporter; marine; less distinct class divisions; unified internal market | 5 | |
323093611 | Natural resources | coal, cotton, wool, tin | 6 | |
323093612 | New technology | specialization, textile, agriculture | 7 | |
323093613 | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations; division of labor | 8 | |
323093614 | Laissez-faire | free market without government interference | 9 | |
323093615 | Division of labor | workers specialize in 1 or 2 tasks; > prod. > wealth | 10 | |
323093616 | Farming | one exception to division of labor | 11 | |
323093617 | Communist Manifesto | bourgeoisie vs. proletariat; change society - be ruling class | 12 | |
323093618 | Steam Engine | James Watt; energy for machines; factories away from water | 13 | |
323093619 | Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney; increase cotton prod. and supply | 14 | |
323093620 | Bacteria and Pasteurization: | louis pasteur; immunization | 15 | |
323093621 | Smallpox | Edward Jenner | 16 | |
323093622 | Bessemer Steel | Henry Bessemer; refine iron into stronger steel | 17 | |
323093623 | Spinning jenny | James Hargreaves; increase textile; makes textile industry Britain's biggest | 18 | |
323093624 | 20% | of the world exposed to industrialization | 19 | |
323093625 | Railroads and steamships | transport goods by land and sea; more people have acces to goods at lower price; > demand | 20 | |
323093626 | Telegraph | Samuel Morse; improved communication w/ businesses, cities, and countries | 21 | |
323093627 | Canals | connect waterways; transport resources and finished prod. | 22 | |
323093628 | Palm Oil | West Africa; export economy | 23 | |
323093629 | U.S., Russia, and Japan | 2nd to industrialize (3 countries) | 24 | |
323093630 | Interchangeable parts | speed prod., less skill; Eli Whitney, rifle prod. | 25 | |
323093631 | Bourgeoisie | Upper/middle class; factory owners | 26 | |
323093632 | Proletariat | Working class | 27 | |
323093633 | Global Economy | industrialists want new materials and markets; growth of export economy | 28 | |
323093634 | Decline of agriculture based economy | Cotton industry in India | 29 | |
323093635 | British and French try to open | Chinese markets | 30 | |
323093636 | United Fruit company | monopoly over economy, production, labor, and politics | 31 | |
323093637 | Banana Republic | export nations dominated by companies; rubber from the Congo | 32 | |
323093638 | Financial institutions | facilitate investments of capital; stock markets; insurance | 33 | |
323093639 | Utopia | peaceful; voluntary surrender means of prod. end poverty | 34 | |
323093640 | Marxism | class struggle leads from oppression to classless society | 35 | |
323093641 | Anarchism | all forms of govt. undesirable | 36 | |
323093642 | Resistance | Qing and Ottoman | 37 | |
323093643 | Meiji Japan | agric. tax increases to pay for govt. sponsored industries, turn over to private sector | 38 | |
323093644 | Factory and RR dev. in Tsarist Russia | abolish serfdom; govt. funded RR & fact.; tarrifs protect russian industry | 39 | |
323093645 | Capitalism | private ownership of industry; free competition; unequal economic classes | 40 | |
323093646 | Socialism | public ownership and broad control of industry; goal is working class controls and benefits; co-exists with capitalism | 41 | |
323093647 | Communism | public ownership and central control of industry; goal is classless society; no capitalism | 42 |
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