Ch. 21 Flashcards
James Hargreaves
Spinning Jenny
Richard Arkwright
Water Frame
Edmund Cartwright
power loom, but people used hand loom weavers
Thomas Newcomen and Thomas Savery
steam engine, first used for draining mines
James Watt
improved steam engine
coke
iron makers switched from limited charcoal to Coke
Henry Cort
Puddling Furnace, allowed pig furnace to be refined iron
George Stephenson, the rocket
first public railroad
Thomas Malthius
population will grow faster than food. only war, famine, and disease
David Ricardo
population growth prevents wages from rising
tariff protection
governments way of supporting own economy by laying high taxes on imported good
economic nationalism
policies aimed at protecting and developing countries economy
William Blake and Wordsworth
protested against hard life of power, pollution of land and water
Luddites
skilled workers. attacked machines
Friedrich Engels
“Condition of Working Class” attached middle class