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Industrial Revolution

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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

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Agricultural Revolution

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Caused new inventions and scientific advances to pour out each year
Allowed Farmers to maximize their yields
High supplies, lower demands

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Urbanization

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Mass movement of people into cities

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Britain’s Role in the Industrial Revolution

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Food increased = Growth in population
Lots of Resources
Laborers
Opened Canals, Popularized Locomotives

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Capital

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Money used to invest in enterprise

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Enterprise

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Business/Organization in areas such as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories

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Entrepreneurship

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Ability and readiness to develop and run a business, as well as being ready for losses and issues with the business

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Industrial Revolution in textiles

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Kept creating more machines to makes clothes faster
Created factories
Allowed for more transportation to open up faster

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Inventions

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Steam Boat, Sewing Machines, factories, Anesthetic, trains

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Advancements in transportations

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Allowed for locomotives to be more popular
Turnpikes
Canals opened up
Cut the price of coal in half

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Tenements

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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

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Middle Class living

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Lived comfy lives
2+ kids, and could afford everything they demanded/needed
Decent House

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Labor Unions

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They bargained for better pay
Strikes and Protests

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Luddites

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Protesting workers
Soldiers attacked them
Named after Ned Luddite

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Factories

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Lots for Hours
Low Pay
Exploitation
Very Dangerous

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Working Conditions

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Lots of hours
Low Pay
Very Dangerous

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Child Labor

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No Child Labor Laws
Worked in mines, textile factories, and farms
Made them work as many hours as adults

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I.R Women

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Payed Less
Worked More
Expected to still be Ideal House wife

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Standard of living

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Refers to the level of material goods and services available to people in society. For example, homes, clothes, tools supplies, etc.

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Socialism

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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.

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Means of production

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Factories, machines, tools, raw materials, land, and financial capital needed to make and produce items

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2nd Industrial Revolution

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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

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Bessemer Process

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A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities

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Communism

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classless society
the means of production would be owned in common for the good of all
inspired by a German philosopher named Karl Marx.

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Karl Marx

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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.

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Textiles

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Economic field which provided opportunity for the industrial revolution to begin in England

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In order to raise capital, corporations would sell _____, or shares of the company to investors

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Stock

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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

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Germ Theory

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