Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Industrial Revolution
Outgrowth of the Scientific Revolution
Lots of new machinery
Peoples lives increased
More buildings/Factories
Period of signifiant Outgrowth, resulting in industrialization across the globe
Agricultural Revolution
Caused new inventions and scientific advances to pour out each year
Allowed Farmers to maximize their yields
High supplies, lower demands
Urbanization
Mass movement of people into cities
Britain’s Role in the Industrial Revolution
Food increased = Growth in population
Lots of Resources
Laborers
Opened Canals, Popularized Locomotives
Capital
Money used to invest in enterprise
Enterprise
Business/Organization in areas such as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories
Entrepreneurship
Ability and readiness to develop and run a business, as well as being ready for losses and issues with the business
Industrial Revolution in textiles
Kept creating more machines to makes clothes faster
Created factories
Allowed for more transportation to open up faster
Inventions
Steam Boat, Sewing Machines, factories, Anesthetic, trains
Advancements in transportations
Allowed for locomotives to be more popular
Turnpikes
Canals opened up
Cut the price of coal in half
Tenements
A large, old building which is divided into a number of individual apartments
Run down and often overcrowded
Poor living conditions
In a poor section of a big city
Middle Class living
Lived comfy lives
2+ kids, and could afford everything they demanded/needed
Decent House
Labor Unions
They bargained for better pay
Strikes and Protests
Luddites
Protesting workers
Soldiers attacked them
Named after Ned Luddite
Factories
Lots for Hours
Low Pay
Exploitation
Very Dangerous
Working Conditions
Lots of hours
Low Pay
Very Dangerous
Child Labor
No Child Labor Laws
Worked in mines, textile factories, and farms
Made them work as many hours as adults
I.R Women
Payed Less
Worked More
Expected to still be Ideal House wife
Standard of living
Refers to the level of material goods and services available to people in society. For example, homes, clothes, tools supplies, etc.
Socialism
An economic and social system where the people as a whole, would own and operate the means of production
This was a response to the poor living and working conditions the urban working class.
Means of production
Factories, machines, tools, raw materials, land, and financial capital needed to make and produce items
2nd Industrial Revolution
A wave in the late 19th century industrialization that was characterized by an increased use of steel, chemical processes, electric power, and railroads. This period also witnessed the spread of industrialization from Great Britain to Western Europe and later the United States
Bessemer Process
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities
Communism
classless society
the means of production would be owned in common for the good of all
inspired by a German philosopher named Karl Marx.
Karl Marx
German philosopher who constructed the new idea of “Scientific Socialism”
Wrote the Communist Manifesto
laid the groundwork for communism based on the idea of class struggles.
Textiles
Economic field which provided opportunity for the industrial revolution to begin in England
In order to raise capital, corporations would sell _____, or shares of the company to investors
Stock
This was a revolutionary idea that linked microbes and disease. Because of this discovery scientists could now understand why and how people became sick. This would allow for major advancements in the medical field
Germ Theory
