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Aggricultural revolution

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1700

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Results of enclosures

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Large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities

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Result of agricultural revolution

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New farming techniques and improved livestock breeding led to amplified food production. This allowed a spike in population and increased health

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Crop rotation

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The system varying successive crops in a definite order on the same ground, especially to avoid depleting the soil into control weeds, diseases, and pest.

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Jethro Tull

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Seed drill

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Robert Bakewell

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Sheep Eugenics

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England

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1800

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Industrialization

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Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production, and craftsman are replaced by assembly lines.

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Factors of production

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An economic term that describes the inputs that are used in the production of goods or services in order to make an economic profit the factors of production include land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship

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Textile industry

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Primarily concerned with the design and production of yarn, cloth, clothing, and their distribution

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Entrepreneur

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A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so

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James Watt

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Steam engine

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13
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Eli Whitney

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Cotton grin

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John McAdam

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Turnpikes

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15
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Robert Fulton

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Steamboat

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16
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Rocket

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Liverpool-Manchester railway

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Effects of railroads

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More efficient transportation

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Reasons for urbanization

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Went to cities for jobs

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Largest city

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Factory systems

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System of manufacturing that began in the 18th century with the development of the power loom and the steam engine which is based on concentration of industry into large establishments

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Middle class

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The social group between the upper and working classes, including professional and business workers and their families

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Samuel slater

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An early English-American industrialist known as the “father of the American industrial revolution” and the “Father of the American factory system”

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Lowell, MA

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Single woman workers

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Corporations

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A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law

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Imperialism

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A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

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Laissez faire economics

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A theory was that the less the government is involved in free-market capitalism, the better off business will be, and then by extension society as a whole

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Adam smith

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Wealth of nations

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Capitalism

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No regulation

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Economists

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An expert in economics

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Socialism

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Gov’t regulation

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Communism

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A political theory derived from Carl Max, advocating class war in leading 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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Communist manifesto

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In 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Regarded as the founders of the Marxist

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Unions

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Collective bargaining

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Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees

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William Wilberforce

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English politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to eradicate the slave trade

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Jane Addams

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Pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, exotic dancer, author, and leader in womans suffrage and world peace

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Alexis Tocqueville

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A French diplomat, political scientist, and historian

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Queen Victoria

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Victoria was queen of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death

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Suffrage

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The right to vote in political elections

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Insurance

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A practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for a specified loss, damage, illness or death in return for payment of a premium

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Pensions

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A regular payment made during a person’s retirement from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life

43
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Thomas Edison

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Light bulb

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Alexander bell

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Marconi

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Henry ford

47
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Wright brothers

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