Chapter 20 Flashcards

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Industrial Revolution

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A term first coined in 1799 to describe the burst of major inventions and economic expansion that began in Britain in the late eighteenth century.

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Spinning Jenny

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A simple, inexpensive, hand-powered spinning machine created by Jame Hargreaves in 1765.

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Water Frame

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A spinning machine created by Richard Arkwright that had a capacity of several hundred spindles and used waterpower; it therefore required a larger and more specialized mill.

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Steam Engines

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A breakthrough invention by Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 that burned coal to produce steam, which was then used to pump; the early models were superseded by James Watt’s more efficient steam engine, patented in 1769.

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Rocket

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The name given to George Stephenson’s effective locomotive that was first tested in 1829 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at 24 miles per hour.

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Crystal Palace

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The location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London; an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron.

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Iron Law of Wages

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Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above subsistence level.

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Tariff protection

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A government’s way of supporting and aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries, as when the French responded to cheaper British goods flooding their country by imposing high tariffs on some imported products.

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Factory Acts

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English laws passed from 1802 to 1833 that limited the workday of child laborers and set minimum hygiene and safety requirements.

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Separate Spheres

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A gender division of labor with the wife at home as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner

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Mines Act of 1842

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English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls as well as for boys under ten

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Class-Conciousness

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Awareness of belonging to a distinct social and economic class whose interests might conflict with those of other classes

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Luddites

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Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and later, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out for work.

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Combinations Acts

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British laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business people over skilled artisans. Bitterly resented and widely disregarded by many craft guilds, the acts were repealed by Parliament in 1824.

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