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Industrial Revolution

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Time were new invention were made to help the production of goods

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Agricultural Revolution

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Time where new forms of agriculture were developed

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Enclosure

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The process of taking and owning your own farmland

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Crop Rotation

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Changing crops in a field to help restore nutrients in the soil

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Cottage Industry (Putting Out System)

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Giving cotton to peasants so they can produce cloth

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Reasons why Britain was First to industrialize

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  • Natural Resources
  • Demand and Capital
  • Strong government
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Textile Industry

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Britain’s first large industry, the processing of cotton to cloth

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Steam Engine - James Watt

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The first engine to be created, essential to Industrial Revolution

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Eli Whitney

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Inventor who created the cotton gin

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Urbanization

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When people started to move into cities

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Tenements

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Cheap cramp apartments were workers lived

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Labor unions

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Groups that helped protect workers

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Thomas Malthus

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Saw that population was increasing faster than the food supply

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Socialism

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Groups of people would own and control means of production

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Means of production

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Factories, farms, or businesses that produced or distributed goods

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Utopians - Robert Owen

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Believed in the creation of a perfect society

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Karl Marx

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Created his own form of Socialism, Communism

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Communism

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Form of socialism where the struggle between social classes would lead to a classless society where means of production is controlled by community

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Proletariat

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Nickname for industrial workers

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Laissez-Faire - Adam Smith

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Government cannot interfere with production

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Capitalism

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A single person owns and controls the means of production

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Utilitarianism - Jong Stuart Mill

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All people need to be happy and everyone should receive the same pay

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