Chapter 19 Flashcards

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Urgent messages flew across

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telegraph wires

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New Inventions

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drug that prevents pain during surgery, sweing machine, measure of the speed of light, and antiseptic methods to reduce risk of woen dying in childbirth

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2
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they built earthen walls known as dikes to reclaim lad from the sea

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Dutch

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3
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Some farmers did what to get more crops

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mixed different kinds of soils to get higher crop yields (more crops)

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invented a seed drill that helped farmers deposit seeds in rows rather then scattering them wastefully over the land

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Jethro Tull

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5
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The process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers

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enclosures

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6
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had developed a steam engine powered by coal to pump water out of the mines

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Thomas Newcomen

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Looked at Newcomen invention in 1764 and set out to make improvements on the engine in order to make it more efficient

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James Watt

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8
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Separate iron from its ore

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smelt iron

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9
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was britians communication and transportation cheap?

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yes due to the accessible to water

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10
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had a stable government

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britian

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11
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boosted demands for goods

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Ready Workface

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12
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Which is money used to invest in enterpress

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capital

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is a business organization in an area such as shipping, mining, railroads or factories

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enterprise

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14
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People who managed and assumed the financial risks of starting new business

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entrepreneurs

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15
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Also known as cottage industry, in which raw cotton was distributed to peasant families who spun it into thread then wove the thread into cloth in their own homes

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putting-out-system

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16
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created cotton gin

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Eli Whitney

17
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Which could deseed cotton (something that previously time consuming because it was done by hand)

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cotton gin

18
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Were private roads built by entrepreneurs who would change travelers a toll or fee (to use them)

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turnpikes

19
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the worlds first major line went from

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liverpool to manchester

20
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whose members came from a variety of backgrounds

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bourgeoisie

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the wealth and the middle class lived where

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in pleasant neighborhoods

22
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where did the poor live

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foul-smelling slums

23
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Or multi-story buildings which were divided into apartments. These tenements had no running water with only community pumps

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tenements

24
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Or workers, organizations were illegal at this time, secret Unions did exist among frustrated British workers

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labor union

25
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was a movement that was influenced by the Industrial Revolution as people moved to cities and lost connections with their old churches

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methodism

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had founded Methodist movement in the mid-1700s. he stressed the need for a personal sense of faith and encouraged his followers to improve themselves by adopting sober moral ways

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John Wesley

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set up sunday schools, which not only taught people about the bible but also taught them how to read the bible

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preachers

28
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worked hard but their wrk varied according to the seasons. life was also had from the,, but at least they worked at their own pace

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rural village people

29
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Saw the effects of the population explosion: crowded slums, hungry families, unemployments and widespread misery

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thomas malthus

30
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wrote the wealth of nations-in his work he asserted that a free market should consist of unregulated exchange of good and services. that would come to help everybody

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Adam Smith

31
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advocated utilitarianism

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jeremy betham

32
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Which was the idea that the great society should be “the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens

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utilitarianism

33
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is the people as a whole rather then private individuals would own and operate the means of production-such as farms, factories, railways, and other large businesses that produced and distributed goods

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socialism

34
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early socialist tried to create societies based on this idea they were called

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Utopians

35
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And even set up a model community in New Lanark, Scotland, (trying to put his ideas into practice)

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Robert Owen

36
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formulated a new theory called “scientific socialism”-which he claimed was a scientific study of history. he teamed up with another german socialist, Friedrich Engel and together they wrote the pamphlet the communist manifesto (published in 1848)

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Karl Max

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became known to refer to a system in which governments led by a small elite controlled all economic and political life

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communism

38
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A political ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism instead of a sudden violence overthrow of the system

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social democracy

39
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had always owned the means of production and thus controlled society and all it wealth

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haves

40
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were the proletariat-working class

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have-nots