Industrail Revolution Begins Flashcards

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Anesthetic

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drug that prevents pain during surgery

-american dentist this

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Enclosure

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the process of taking over and fenceing off land formerly shared by peasant farmers
-landowners pushed ahead with this

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Smelt

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separate iron form its ore.

-Abraham Darby coal to do this to the iron

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Capital

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Money/invest

-British economy helped with slave trade gaining this

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Facotry

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places with workers and machines to produce goods

-spinners and weavers were the first ones to come to these

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Turnpike

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privatly built roads from place to place

-some capitalists invested in this

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Urbanization

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movement of people to cities

-Industrail Revolution brought this rapidly

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Tenement

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multistory buildings divided into crowded appartments

-poor were packed into these to live in

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Labor Union

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workers’ organizations

  • won the right to bargain with employers for better wages, hours and working conditions
  • later got the right to vote and political power
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Utilitarianism

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the idea that the goal of society should be “the greatest happiness for the greater number” of its citizens
-Jeremy Bentham preached this

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Means of Produciton

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the farms, factories, railaways, and other large businesses that produced and distributed goods.
-socialism

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Communism

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form of socialism that sees class struggle between employers and employees as unavoidalbe.
-Marx and Engels wrot THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
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Proletariat

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The working class

-Marxism called them the “have-nots” and that they would unite and get equal power and money to the higher classes

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Methodism

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promised forgiveness of sin and a better ilfe to come.

-John Wesley founded this church.

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Utopians

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ideal society

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Socialism

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people as a whole rather than private individuals would own and operate means of production
-to end poverty and injustice they created this

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Abraham Darby

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  • smelted the iron
  • dicoved that coal gave off impurities
  • found a way to remove the impurities from coal
  • produced better iron
  • latter turned into builid railroads with the iron
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John Wesley

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-founded the Methodism Church

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Thomas Malthus

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  • like smith’s book
  • writter about population shaped economic thinking for generations
  • thought we would run out of food
  • thought poor would suffer becuase of a large population
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John Stuart Mill

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  • Jeremys cheif follower
  • promoted happiness and wrong if it caused pain
  • wanted gov to improve hard lifes of the working class
  • got the middle class to vote
  • now democratic gov absored many of his ideas and other utilitarians
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Adam Smith

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  • author of THE WEALTH OF NAITONS
  • asserted the free market would help everyone
  • free market = produced more goods at lower prices
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Jeremy Bentham

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  • Preached utilitarianism

- supported indivitdual freedom