Industrial Revolution Flashcards

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Remembering the pre-industrial societies, what were the factors?

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  • disconnection
  • in-communication
  • small travels
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What were the Pre-industrial societies in the industrial revolution?

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  • Traditional authorities (persons)
  • Social stagnation (religion/morals)
  • No social mobility
  • Craft industry + agricultural productions
  • Simple production (no division labor)
  • Limited trade
  • Parochialism
  • High mortality (birth rate)
  • Rural Societies
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What about the industrial societies ?

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  • Traditional authorities
  • Bourgegisie ~ rich (business)
  • Monarchy ~poor (eccentricity)

Taxes and regulations over economic activity

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What the two reason of the enlightenment ?

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  • Individualism

- Science

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What the two reason of the enlightenment ?

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  • Individualism

- Science

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In what is focus in individualism?

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Is focus on:

  • Liberalism that was freedom
  • Capitalism that was wealth

Both helped with the progress of the pursuit of happiness

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In what is focus in individualism?

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Is focus on:

  • Liberalism that was freedom
  • Capitalism that was wealth

Both helped with the progress of the pursuit of happiness

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What the two reason of the enlightenment ?

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  • Individualism

- Science

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In what is focus in individualism?

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Is focus on:

  • Liberalism that was freedom
  • Capitalism that was wealth

Both helped with the progress of the pursuit of happiness

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In what is focus the science?

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Is focus on:

  • Engineering - Material
  • Medicine - Health

Both helped the progress of pursuit of happiness

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What are the characteristics of the social stagnation?

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-Protestant reformation (translate bible)
-Hard work ~ wealth. own problems
-Colonialism - Triangular trade
World trade
Since that Economic changes became true.

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What are the two economic changes?

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-Theory 
Feudalism 
Dependency ~ Free labor 
"The system was inefficient" 
-Sweezy 
Subsistence ~ trade
"Trade promoted new system"
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What are the endogenous and exogenous causes?

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Endogenous Causes - inside 
- New mentality 
- Capital Accumulation (colonialism) 
Exogenous Causes - Outside 
- Agriculture explosion 
- Demographic explosion 

Abundant raw materials & labor
Teach innovation - k increase

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What was important in the viceroyship of the Spanish empire of America ?

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Illustration

  • Contraband
  • Competitive
  • Personal interests of the workers
  • Disagree Creoles
  • Economic crisis
  • Napoleon wars
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What was include in the time of change?

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Authority 
Manufacture 
Transportation 
Human logic 
Technologic
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How they obtained the time of change ?

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Specialized workers/inventors (better ways to do things) 
Machines (mechanization) 
Heavy Industries (iron,steel) 
Mining (metals,chemicals,coal) 
Education (engineering) 
Roads, canals, railways ( infrastructure improvement) 
Consumption (better wages) 
Employment (to support production) 
Light industry (basic goods) 
Agriculture (food) 
Urbanization ( concentration) 
Technology
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What are the five key factors for country development and production increase?

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The five factors are: 
1 Labor division 
-specialization: improve the process 
-process improvement 
-machinery inventions 
-time saving : do things faster 
2 Machinery Use
-productivity 
-industrial scheme 
-reliability 
3 Employment generation 
-consumption encourage 
-population increase 
-available workforce 
-value chain extent 
4 Entrepreneurship 
-diversity 
-innovation/ products/ business forms 
5 Talent Use freedom 
-pleasant work
-slavery 
-abolition
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What were the economic consequences in Europe ? Explain.

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1Large scale production 
-lower production costs 
-lower production time 
-uniform production & quality 
-creation of "value chain" 
2Joint ownership companies 
-reduction of risk 
-incentives to invest 
3 Expansion of financial markets 
-new business forms 
-increase of hidden capital flow 
4 Agriculture redefined 
-migration to cities 
-crop for profit, not survival
-infrastructure for development
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What were the social consequences of industrial revolution in Europe ? Explain.

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1 Decay of life quality 
- people confined in factories 
- extended labor hours 
- uniform jobs : boredom 
-unhealthy work environment 
2 Overcrowded cities 
- urban slums 
- scarce scope of social services 
3 Social disintegration 
- very rich/ very poor/ middle class 
- (skilled vs non-skilled) 
- alcoholism, prostitution, alienation. 
- private property protection 
- life based in consumption 
- reduction of government influence 
- industrial and commercial protectionism/machinery exports/ qualified personnel migration 

Protectionism countries for development

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What did the protectionism countries for development?

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Innovation. Productivity
Market. Freedom (FR)
Learning. Human capital

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How was the industrial system development ?

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Started with basic manufacture - tool machinery - heavy industries
Two ways to develop a country
1 Neutral estate -smith-
2 Active estate -Hamilton- for market don’t open and the country development

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What is interventionism?

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Interventionism is a country that have both of the ways to develop as the neutral and the active estate.

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What means protectionism ?

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Protectionism is because a country is an active estate.

Easy to buy and impossible to sell.

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What are the forms of government according to Hamilton ?

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Subsidization
Custom tariffs
Financial support

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What are the characteristics of the labor system?

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  • Registered servants (including delinquents)
  • Learning contracts
  • Free work
  • Slavery
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What did agriculture as the main economic activity ?

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  • Restricted trade ( intern/extern)
  • No/ monetary system
  • No/ transportation means
  • No/ economic autonomy
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What are the monarchy budged?

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Imposed sovereigns
Commercial laws
Subordination
Representative system

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How the monarchy get the budget?

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They got the budget because of the: 
Taxes 
Generate employment 
Trade 
Industry
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Taxes: founding?

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Money paper (congress) 
Money paper (estates) 
Lotteries 
Government pirates booty 
Friend nations credit 

Non backup.

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What did the own government ?

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Respect for negligence rights of the
Life
Liberty
Self determination