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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Board

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The people who directed a particular business in this case the workhouse

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Work house

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A louse in which poor people are lodged and sent to work

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Beadle

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The people in day to day charge of the workhouse

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Capital

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Excellent

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Oakum

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Loose fibres picked from old ropes that are used to caulk ships.

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Pauper?

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A person with no money at all

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Copper

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Large boiler used for cooking or laundering

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Gruel

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A light thin liquid made by boiling a cereal such as oatmeal in water.

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Porringer

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One handed metal bowl or cup.

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Assiduously

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Attentively

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Voracious

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Extremely hungry

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Per diem

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Per day

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Implicitly

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Implied not openly stated

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Short commons

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Small amount of foods

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Temerity

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Reckless boldness

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Stupefied

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To be struck senless

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To pinion

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To be blond or hold fast

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Dietary

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A regulated allowance of food

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To controvert

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To deny or disput

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Prophetic

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Giving warning of what is to come

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Ever and anon

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Now and again

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To incarcerate

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To imprisome

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Ablution

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Washing

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To console

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To comfort

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To supplicate

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To beg

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To entreat

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To beg

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Revolution

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A complete change in something the overthrow of a government

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Technology

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New inventions; the science of the industry

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Global

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Worldwide

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Mother country

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In the language of the colonist the colonizing power was often referred as the mother country, a sexist reference no longer used

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Industrial

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An economy named on industry not agriculture.

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To exploit

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To use

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Global warming

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An increase in the worlds temperature

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Ozone layer

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A layer of gas above the earths surface that protects human beings from harmful rays of the sun

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Labour supple

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A supply of workers

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Test act

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An act forbidding anyone except the members of the Church of England from holding political office or entering the professions

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Capital

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Money used to invest in businesses

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Raw materials

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The essential materials neede in an industry to make a product

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Inefficient

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Unproductive, inadequate in proforms cue

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Commons

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Land held to be used by everyone

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To graze

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on feed growing plants such as grass

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Fodder

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Animal food

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To broadcast

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To sow seeds by throwing them over a field by hand

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Entrepreneur

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A person who runs a business taking the risk in order to gain profit

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Franchise

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The right to vote

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Self interest

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Action in ones own interest rather than in another

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Synthetic

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Made by humans

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Demand

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Desire for particular goods

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To seep

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To trickle slowly

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Compressed steam

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Steam under pressure

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Cast iron

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Molten iron poured into a mould to make a products

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Market

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Those wishing to purchase goods

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Toll

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A fee for using a road

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Locomotive

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A steam engine designed to pull cars on a railway

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Capitalist

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A person with money to invest

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Clothier

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A capitalist who invests money in textile making

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Supply

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The amount of goods available

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Demand

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The desire of people to buy a certain good or product

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Mother Teresa

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A nun who devoted her life to care for the poor and diseased in India

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Social reformers

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People who wish to change the nature of society

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Labour unions

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Organization devoted to improving conditions for their members

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Society

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In this context upper class

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Idealized

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Nog realistic

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To speculate

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To buy land in the expectation

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Absent

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Away in this case owners who owned land but did not live on it

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