Industial Rev People Flashcards
Jethro tull
Seed drill
Lord townshens
Turnip crop
Thomas Newcomen
Steam engine
James watt
Improved steam engine
Abraham Darby
Used coke to smelt iron
George Stephenson
Steam locomotive
Robert Fulton
Steam ship
John Wesley
Methodists
Adam smith
Prophet of laissez faire economics
Thomas Malthus
Pop would outpace food supply: urged to have less kids
David Ricardo
More kids meant greater supply of labor which led to lower wages and higher unemployment
Jeremy Bentham
Individual freedom if laws were useful then they were good
John Stuart mill
Individual freedom wanted people to experience working class life good if happiness bad if pain
Robert Owen
Limit child labor laws encouraged organization if labor unions mill owner set up model village
Karl Marx
Economics was the driving force in history