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1
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What did Sam Slatter spread to the US?

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The textile industry and brought the industrial spinning machine

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Positive effects of the Industrial Revolution ?

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Transportation, cheap labor, and get your job done by little kids

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What are corporations

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A business owned by stockholders who shares in its profits and sells to raise money for investment

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What did Eli Whitney introduce?

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She introduced interchangeable parts

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What did Henry ford introduce in 1913

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introduced the assembly line

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What is a assembly line?

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Line of workers each putting a single piece of unfinished cars as they passed on the moving belt.

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What are the worlds three most industrialized countries?

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The US, Britain and Germany

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What did worker groups fought for?

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wages, hours, and working conditions

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Worker groups also involved in?

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Labor unions

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9
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What’s a way to protest unions?

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Strikes

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Why did factory owners blacklisted people?

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for being union members to stop the spread of the unions.

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When did the government ban unions?

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The parliament banned unions in 1800s.

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12
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What is parliament?

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Parliament is the government

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What is economy?

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Wealth and resources of a country

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What is capitalism?

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individuals and private firms own the production of good services. Not owned by government

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What did Adam Smith write?

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The wealth of nations

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What is the wealth of nations?

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States about how economy works best with or without the government

17
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What did Thomas Malthus write abt in 1798

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An essay on the principle of population

18
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What’s socialism

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Economy owned by government

19
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Who’s Karl Marx

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Socialist and spoke of 2 classes

20
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What’s ruling class

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Owns production, factory owners

21
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What’s working class

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Non owners, get treated unfairly by the owners

22
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Communism

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No private property, no classes

23
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What are the three natural resources

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Coal, iron ore, rivers

24
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What is the agricultural revolution

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Crop rotation, and enclosure movement

25
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What’s crop rotation

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Helps soil to stay healthy

26
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What’s the enclosure movement

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Buying land everyone used and then make it private land.

27
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From what years was the parliament passing laws regulating factory work

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1800s and 1850s

28
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How many hours would kids work for

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60 weekly and. 10.5 daily

29
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When was the English factory system first adopted ?

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1750s

30
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What did the English factory system involve

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-lower costs of goods
-unskilled workers
-mass producing goods with water or steam powered machines

31
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Sourcing

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-identify the authors position on the event and evaluate the purpose

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Contextualization

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Understand how the context info influences the content in the document

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Corroboration

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Comparing documents together

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Close reading

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Identify the authors claim, evaluate evidence and authors word choice.

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Agricultural

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-seed drill (innovation)
-crop rotation, land use, soil health, development of new crops, increase yields and productivity.

36
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Energy (innovation)

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Coal is the principle energy and water power. Innovations would be : steam engine

37
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Chemicals

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Dyes, explosives, fertilizers, medicines,

38
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Transportation

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Steam boats, canals. The main route of transportation are the railroads. made by steam engines

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Metallurgy (innovation)

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Switched from charcoal to coke. Innovations : coke and wrought iron (also made from coal.)

40
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Textiles (innovation)

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Main factor is cotton. Innovations : spinning jenny, spinning mule, power loom, and cotton gin

41
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What’s democracy

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Form of government by the citizens

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