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Chapter 20: IR Flashcards

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Anesthetics

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1st used drug that prevented pain during surgery

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Enclosure

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Taking over and consolidating peasant land

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Improved Farming Methods: what are they?

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Fertilizer used to renew soil
Soil types mixed to produce more crops
Crop rotation
Seed drill invented

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Improved Farming Methods: How did they make things easier/better

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There was a bigger production of crops and more profit.

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Improved Farming Methods: How did it fuel the IR?

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The population increased and there were enclosures causing many peasants to lose land and their jobs. Many people went to cities to find new jobs. ( Supply and Demand)

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Jethro Tull: What did he invent?

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He invented seed drill to plant crops in a row.

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Jethro Tull: How did the seed drill make farming easier?

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He allowed more crop production and and more profit. It planted crops in a row.

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Population increase during IR. Why?

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The increase of food meant that people ate better->stay healthier. There was better sanitation and hygiene meaning less disease.

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James Watt: what did he invent? Why was it significant?

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Steam engine, it becomes key power source of IR

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Iron Industry’s: what improvements in production iron lead to?

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Allowed Iron to be produced faster and cheaper. 1st iron bridge introduced.

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Enterprise

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Business ventures

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Capital

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Money

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Turnpike

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Toll roads

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Entrepreneur

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Assume financial risk/reward of starting new business

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Why Britain? What advantages did they have in leading the IR

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Geography. 
Natural Ports
Navigable rivers
Access to sea
Abundant natural resources 
Supportive Gov't
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Why Britain? Navigable rivers?

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Allowed construction of canals and better trade

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Why Britain: Access to sea?

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Easy to establish travel and communication network. Transporting goods relatively cheap

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Why Britain: Abundant Natural Resources?

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Plenty coal deposit

High concentration of iron

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Why Britain: Supportive Government?

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Strong navy

No tolls on travel

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What industry did the IR 1st take hold?

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Textile industry

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Putting-out-system: What was it?

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Raw cotton distributed to peasants who spun it into thread and weave thread into clothes at their own homes.

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Putting-out-system: How/why did it end?

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New inventions

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Spinning Jenny: what did it do and how did they advance the IR

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Spun many threads at the same time. Sped up cotton production

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Flying Shuttle: what did it do? How did it advance the IR?

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Enabled weaver to work faster. Sped up cloth production

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Eli Whitney: what did he invent what did it do? How did it change things?
Cotton Gin, separates seed from raw cotton. Cotton production sky rocketed and factories were born.
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Railroads: how did they help. Advantages?
Allowed people and goods to travel faster in places w/o water
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Canals: how did they help? Advantages?
Factories needed fast and cheap way of importing coal and raw materials
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1st Rail Line?
Liverpool to Manchester
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Urbanization
Movement of people to cities
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Tenements
Multistory apartment building. Very small and families lived in them.
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Industrial Middle Class
Merchants who invested in factories. Invented technology. "Rags To Riches". No sympathy for poor. Furnished homes and fancy clothes. Kids had an education.
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Industrial working Class
Poor. Lived in tenements with no running water, sewage, sanitation. Contaminated drinking water spread disease. Children worked
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Harsh conditions in factories and mines.
Rigid schedules: 12-16 hrs a day 6/7 days a week. No breaks unless they had permission. No safety devices. Lung damage in textile mills.
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Child labor: Textile mills
Change spools of thread and repair broken pieces. Small and could fit in tight places.
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Child labor: mines
Open/close air vents, haul coal carts, fit tight places
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Factory acts: what were they? Who were they supposed to help
Help children by reducing the hours they worked to "only" 12 hrs. The law was never really enforced
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Luddites
Labor organization that resented being replaced by machines and rioted
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Methodism: who founded it?
John Wesley
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Methodism: what were its teachings and for what class were they intended?
Intended for Industrial working class. Stressed personal sense of faith and improve by adopting moral and sober ways.
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Results of IR? Blessing?
New factories +jobs Wages rose Railroad/steamships Rise of population
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Results of IR: curse?
``` Farmers kicked off land Workers exploited -long hours -horrible working conditions -child labor ```
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Utilitarianism
Laws should be judged by whether they bring more pleasure than pain. "The greatest happiness for the greater number"
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Socialism
People as a whole, not private individuals, own means of production.
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Communism
Classless society where all means of production is owed by community.
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Thomas Malthus: who was he? What did he believe?
British economists. Poverty was unavoidable. Only that could stop it is war, disease and famine. Believes proven wrong.
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Laissez-Faire
Government has "Hands-off" approach
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David Ricardo: What did he write and what did it say?
Iron Laws of Wages: wage increase would not help poor families instead encourage them to have more kids
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Jeremy Bentham: what did he believe?
Utilitarianism
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Karl Marx and Fredric Engels: writing, beliefs, thoughts
Communist Manifesto: Communism. Society was battle between Haves and Have Nots
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Proletariat:
Haves nots. industrial working class
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Bourgeoisie
Haves-Industrial middle class
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Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie: who did Marx think would win?
Proletariat would take control of society
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Subsistence Farming
To grow enough food for themselves and their families, but not enough to sell

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