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spinning jenny

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allowed a weaver to spin more than one thread at a time (James Hargreaves in the 1760s)

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water frame

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used waterpower to drive the spinning wheel (Richard Arkwright 1769)

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James Hargreaves

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created the spinning jenny

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Richard Arkwright

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created the water frame and is considered the father of the factory system

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Eli Whitney

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best known for developing the cotton gin, an inventor that created interchangeable parts, which changed the industry forever

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interchangeable parts

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the idea that all parts to make a product are the same and can easily be replaced when broken

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steam engine

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a new power source that harnessed coal power to create steam which generated energy for machines in textile factories

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James Watt

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created the steam engine

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steamship

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a ship that was powered by a steam engine and could travel easily upstream which revolutionized transportation of products

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crop rotation

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rotating different crops in and out of a field each year

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seed drill

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a device that efficiently places seeds in a designated spot in the ground

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seaways

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routes on the Atlantic Ocean that were used by Britain

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raw materials

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the input goods or inventory that a company needs to manufacture its products

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fossil fuels

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an energy source derived from plant and animal remains

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Transcontinental Railroad

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railroad that connected the Atlantic and pacific oceans and facilitated US industrial growth

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second industrial revolution

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occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and had innovations in steel, chemicals, precision machinery, and electronics

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

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railroad that stretched from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean, allowing Russia to trade with countries in East Asia

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Bessemer process

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the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.

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urbanization

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the growth of cities

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Protestant work ethic

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the religious importance attached to laboring at one’s job

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Meiji

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the first half of the Empire of Japan

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Otto van Bismarck

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Prussian leader who started workers accident compensation insurance, unemployment insurance and old age pensions for employees

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Industrial Revolution

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the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines (1760-1840)

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industrialization

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not only the increased mechanization of production, but also the social changes that accompanied this shift

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cottage industry
merchants provided raw cotton to women who spun it into finished cloth in their own homes
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putting-out system
another word for the cottage industry
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factory system
a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor
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division of labor
each worker specializes in a specific task so that tasks get done faster
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assembly line
it is each workers job to do one small part, so that things could be assembled much quicker by moving down the line of people doing simple tasks
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agricultural revolution
predated the industrial revolutions in the 1700s and resulted in increased productivity
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enclosure movement
the government fenced off the commons in order to give exclusive use of it to people who paid for the privilege for who purchased the land
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Manchester
urban areas that small farmers moved to during the enclosure movement
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Liverpool
urban areas that small farmers moved to during the enclosure movement
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capital
money available to invest in businesses
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human capital
the workforce
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consumerism
the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
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corporations
businesses chartered by a government as a legal entity
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stockholders
individuals who buy partial ownership directly from the company when it is formed or later through a stock market
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stock market
venues where buyers and sellers meet to exchange equity shares of public corporations
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monopoly
when corporations became so powerful that they controlled all aspects of a specific business and eliminated all competition
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The Wealth of Nations
a foundational text in support of capitalism and the establishment of private entrepreneurship
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Adam Smith
wrote the wealth of nations and advocated for capitalism and the "invisible hand" of the market as well as "laissez faire" economy
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capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
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laissez faire
opposed all government regulations that limited business
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John Stuart Mill
an English philosopher who was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism
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utilitarianism
the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
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socialism
a system in which major resources and industries would be owned by the workers or the government on behalf of all people
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utopia
n imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members
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Karl Marx
a German scholar and writer who was critical of utopian socialists
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Friedrich Engels
a German philosopher who was the father of communism
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The Communist Manifesto
a pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.
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means of production
machines, factories, mines, and land
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communism
Marxist socialism that advocated for class war and led to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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tenement
shoddily constructed apartment buildings that were often owned by factory owners and were located in urban slums
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slums
areas of cities where low income families were forced to live
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working class
slum dwellers who labored in factories an coal mines
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white collar
those held by office workers
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captions of industry
newly wealthy industrialists and owners of large corporations
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cult of domesticity
idealizing the female homemaker and encouraged women to buy household products that would make the home a husband's place of respite from a harsh modern world
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labor unions
organizations of workers that advocate for the right to bargain over these patterns with employers and put the resulting agreements in a contract
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proletariat
one of the two basic classes that capitalism broken society into
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bourgeousie
one of the two basic classes that capitalism broken society into

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