industrial revolution (1750-1850) Flashcards
eurocentrism
superiority; europe is better
utopia
place that doesn’t exist; “perfect world”
capital
the money, property, or resources that a person/group owns
sordid boon
- bad blessing
- sordid = the exploitation, pollution
- boon = money, product
scavenger
kids who found cloth under the machines
textiles
piece of cloth or fabric
reformer
a person who makes change to something in order to improve it
industrialized
when a country has machines and factories to manufacture goods
guilds
any group of people joined together in some type of work or for someone else
colonialism
acquiring full or partial control over a place, occupying it, and exploiting it economically
disparity
a great difference
thomas more
author of Utopia, 1516
thomas newcommen
inventor of the original steam engine for pumping water, 1712
james watt
inventor of improved steam engine, 1769
robert owen
- reformer; “new harmony” in indiana, 1824
- did not exploit factory workers
william wordsworth
- romantic poet
luddites
- no technology
- destroyed machines
factory act of 1850
- law that parliament passed in 1850 after they commissioned doctors and other professionals to investigate the conditions that the factory workers experienced
- minimum wage
- kids only work a certain number of hours
enclosure movement
when english farmers enclosed lands for the benefit of the wealthy land owners
underlying cause
capitalism
conditions
enclosure movement
immediate results
child labor laws
bottom line changes
factories
far reaching outcomes
education
