Ch. 21 Flashcards

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James Hargreaves

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Spinning Jenny

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Richard Arkwright

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Water Frame

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Edmund Cartwright

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power loom, but people used hand loom weavers

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Thomas Newcomen and Thomas Savery

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steam engine, first used for draining mines

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James Watt

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improved steam engine

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coke

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iron makers switched from limited charcoal to Coke

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Henry Cort

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Puddling Furnace, allowed pig furnace to be refined iron

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George Stephenson, the rocket

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first public railroad

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Thomas Malthius

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population will grow faster than food. only war, famine, and disease

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David Ricardo

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population growth prevents wages from rising

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tariff protection

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governments way of supporting own economy by laying high taxes on imported good

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economic nationalism

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policies aimed at protecting and developing countries economy

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William Blake and Wordsworth

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protested against hard life of power, pollution of land and water

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Luddites

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skilled workers. attacked machines

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Friedrich Engels

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“Condition of Working Class” attached middle class

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Factory Act of 1833

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sharp decline in employment of children by limiting hours, established elementary schools

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Mines Act of 1842

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english law prohibited underground work for all women, girls, young boys

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Combination Act

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outlawed unions and strikes

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Chartist Movement

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first attempt to peacefully get attention of employees