Indrostial Revolustion Flashcards
Enclosed movement
The enclosure movement was this: wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies of scale in farming huge tracts of land. The enclosure movement led to improved crop production, such as the rotation of crops.Jun 28, 2016
Crop rotation
noun
the action of rotating around an axis or center.
Industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people’s way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, the people of England began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines.
Factors or production
Economists divide the factors of production into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. The first factor of production is land, but this includes any natural resource used to produce goods and services.Aug 9, 2012
Mechanization
Mechanization or mechanisation (British English) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.
Factory systems
Use of machinery with the division of labor reduced the required skill level of workers and also increased the output per worker. The factory system was first adopted in Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century and later spread around the world. It replaced the putting-out system.
Cottage industry
a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person’s home.
Entrepreneur
a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
Tenemewts
plural noun: tenements
1.
a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
Mass production
“Mass production”, “flow production” or “continuous production” is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.
Fordism
Fordism is a term widely used to describe (1) the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism.May 17, 2016
Corporation
company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
Monopoly
1.
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
“his likely motive was to protect his regional monopoly on furs”
Strikes
hit forcibly and deliberately with one’s hand or a weapon or other implement.
“he raised his hand, as if to strike me”
Unions
the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political contex
Collective
done by people acting as a group.
Bargaining
negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.
“he bargained with the city council to rent the stadium”
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Eli whiteney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
James watt
James Watt FRS FRSE was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. He also established the town of Sheffield as a major industrial
Richard Arkwright
Sir Richard Arkwright was an inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Claremont. Wikipedia
Samuel morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. Wikipedia
Henry ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Wikipedia
J.P. Morgan
John Pierpont “J. P.” Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in late 19th and early 20th Century United States. Wikipedia
Born: April 17, 1837, Hartford, CT
Died: March 31, 1913, Rome, Italy
Immigration
the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
“patterns of immigration from the Indian sub-continent to Britain”
the place at an airport or country’s border where government officials check the documents of people entering that country.
Emigration
the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
“mass emigration from Ireland to the United States”
synonyms: moving abroad, moving overseas, expatriation, migration; More
Push and pull factors
Some crap I don’t care about but I’m making it seem like I do
Textiles
More important things tia Chopo but not me
Middle class
Not broke but not Rich
Jane addam
Some night I don’t give af about because tbh wtf
Child labor laws
Uh laws that’s some jits can’t have for some odd reason lol
Stuart mill
Honestly I’m. Done with my life but enjoy yours
Utilitarianism
More freaking shit I don’t care about
Mejía restoration
Mores ducks I don’t care about
