Agricultural revolution Flashcards

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James Hargreaves

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Invented the Spinning Jenny

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Spinning Jenny

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Allowed one spinner to work on 8 threads

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John Kay

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Invented Flying Shuttle

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Flying Shuttle

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did twice as much a weaver could do a day

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Richard Arkwrite

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Water Frame

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Water Frame

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Rapid streams to drive spinning wheels

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Edmund Cartwriight

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Invented the power loom

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Power loom

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water powered and sped weaving

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James Watt

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Improved steam engine

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Eli Whittney

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Invented the cotton gin

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improved steam engine

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Ran faster and used less fuel(more efficient)

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Cotton Gin

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Spun cotton to remove the seed

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Impact of cotton gin

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Slave protest of working slow was no longer valid

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13
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Jenthro Tull

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Speed drill

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Speed drill

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direct sowing–> allowed even rows of seeds

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Crop rotation

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Crops alternated so the nutrients wasn’t’t sucked out of the soil

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Kudzu

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Invasive plant from china that helped with soil erosion.

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What Resources did England have for revolution?

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Iron, waterways, ports and harbors, coal/ fuel

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Why were there so many workers in England?

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Small farms and farmers closed down and moved into the city.

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Factors of Production

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Land, Labour, and Capital

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20
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How did banking system help the revolution?

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people could make loans or invest in engineering/inventing projects.

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What did transportation limits negatively impact?

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Over crowding in the city’s, filth

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Macadams

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paved roads

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Turnpikes

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toll booth–> money for roads/city

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Trains
People could live outside city and get to work, company materials and goods transport
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Street cars
Were on tracks on road and were like trollies/ got horses off the road.
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What other revolution kickstarted the Industrial revolution
Agricultural Revolution
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Railroad impacts
more jobs (railroad workers and miners) boosted industry, wasiaur transportation
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what living conditions
no developmental plans, sanitary codes, building code, adequate enforcement
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why were children used as factory workers
They could be paid less, disciplined, smaller hands could fix machines
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positive effects of revolution
more jobs, weather nations (more money circling in the economy), technological process, raised standard of living, healthier diets and better living conditions, more educated workers
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Laissez
Fair economics and wanted unregulated businesses
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Adam Smith
Wrote The Wealth of Nations
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Laws in Wealth of Nations
Self interest, competition, and supply and demand
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Labour unions did what
collective bargaining/ protest
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what did labour unions protest for
Better wages and better working conditions
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Factory Act of 1833
restricted child labour laws
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The mines act
Said kids and women not allowed underground
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1807
slaver abolished in West Indies
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1833
slaver abolished in GB
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Fight for women's rights ended in what?
still paid less then men
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Adam smith is a believer in....
Capitalism
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Capitalism
factors of production are privately owned and buisnesses are created in order to make profit
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Thomas Malthus
Wrote An Essay on Principle of Population
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What does An Essay on Principle of Population say?
Population increases faster than food supply so wars and epidemics helps to regulate population instead of everyone being poor and miserable.
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David Ricardo
says that the more workers there are the lower the wages and vise versa
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Jeremy Bentham
says government only useful if it does greater good for greatest amount of people
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John Stuart Mill
says capitalism used to abuse workers
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Socialism
factors of production are puboicaslyv owned and goal is welfare of all
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marxism
radical socialism
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Friedrich Engles and Karl Marx
Created marxism
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The communist manifesto
says the haves are weathly and have nots are poor and they over throw have
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