Industrial Rev Flashcards
Samuel Crompton
From Britain made the spinning mule
James Watt
Scotland, found a way to make the steam engine run faster and more efficiently, while burning less fuel.
John McAdddams
Scotland, improved roads
Elizabeth Gaskell
Wrote novel and showed empathy for working class
Samuel Slater
From Britain came to USA built a spinning machine from memory and partial design
Moses brown
From Britain to USA opened first facotry in the US
Farncis Lowell
USA, revolutionized american textile industry mechanized cloth making
Adam Smith
Scotland, defended the idea of a free economy or free markets
Karl Marx
Germany, Introduced world to a radical type of socialism called Marxism
Friedrich Engles
England, Worked with Marx’s ideas believed in the industrial revolution only widened the pay gap
Jane Addams
US, Ran settlement houses
Industrial Revolution
Greatly increased out put of machine made goods that began in England in the 18th century
Enclosure
Large fields landowners used to experiment to discover more productive farming methods.
Crop Rotation
changing the type of crops your growing every year
indutrialization
Process of developing machine made goods
Factors of Production
resources needed to produce goods and services to that the industrial rev required; land labor and capital(wealth)