BH Industrial Revolution Flashcards

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