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Chapter 29 Flashcards

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Factory System

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Most efficient production in Britain

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Watts Steam engine

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First model of the steam engine to transport goods

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Luddites

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Textile artisans who protested against the machines

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Capitalism

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Free market system

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Josiah Wedgewood

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Potter with famous teasets

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Eli Whitney

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Invented cotton gin 1794

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Corporations

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Independent legal entity owned by shareholders

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Monopolies

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One person owns an entire business

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Crystal Palace Exhibition

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Temporary structure that had exhibitions of culture and industry

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Demographic transition model

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Transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates

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Thomas Malthus

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English clerk and scholar. Made the demographic transition model

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Utopian Socialists

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Modern socialist thought for future societies

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The communist manifesto

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Written by carl Marx and Fredrick Engels. Outlining communist rule

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Witte

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Policies modernized Russian economy

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Zaibatsu

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Japanese term referring to business and financial conglomerate

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Golondrinas

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Swallows

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Henry Ford

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Invented moving assembly line

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John Kay developed flying shuttle

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1733

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Samuel Crompton developed spinning mule

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1779

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Edmond Cartwright developed power loom

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1785

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Reform bills expands electorate to House of Commons

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Parliamentary bills relieving some of the bad conditions for working children and women

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Factory act restricts employment of women and children in textile factories

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1847

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Mines act restricts employment of women and children in mines

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1842

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Bessemer converter developed

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1740

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