Chapter 20 Flashcards
Movement of people to cities
Urbanization
Process of taking over and fencing off land formerly shared by peasant owners
Enclosure
Places where people worked to make goods
Factories
Reform that ended poverty and equality
Socialism
Belief that society should try to make people happy
Utilitarianism
Invented a steamboat which went 5mph
Robert Fulton
Founder of Methodism
John Wesley
Father of communism
Karl Marx
Invented the seed drill
Jethro tull
Free market would help everyone
Adam smith
Factory with decent living conditions could still make a profit
Robert Owen
Urged farmers to grow turnips
Charles Townsend
Used coal to melt iron
Abrham Darby
Engineer who improved on newcomens engine
James watt
Three factors that played a role in the agricultural revolution in Britain in the 1700s
Enclosure, fertilizing soil, crop rotation, mechanical devices