Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Thomas Malthus
Said population will increase faster than the food supply unless famen war or disease.
Laissez faire
No government intervention in economics.
Chartist movement
Increase labor situation by private voting
Wealth of nations
Book written by Adam smith
Adam Smith
Wrote about the laissez faire in his book, he was apart of communism
Karl Marx
Founder of communism
Suffrage
Another word for voting
Dreyfus Affair
When a colonel in the French military was blamed for espianoge and was sent to devil’s island.
Queen Victoria
She and King Albert requested that the crystal palace to be built.
Crystal Palace
Glass and iron structure built in England. Industrialized countries came there to show their country’s new technology. World fair
Jeremy Bentham
Founder of utilitarianism
Utilitarianism
The greatest good for the greatest number
Luddites
Smashed machines because they felt the machines were taking away from their jobs.
Communist Manifesto
Book written by Karl Marx
Enclosure Act
When big land owners in parliament voted to take away public land and built fences to make the land theirs
4 causes that brought the industrial revolution in England first.
- Ways to transport like canals and rivers.
- Agriculture revolution, move food to feed people.
- Natural resources like coal and water.
- Increase population means more labor.
(5. ) stable political situation
(6. ) a lot of wealth to invest
Irish Republic Army
An unofficial nationalist military force seeking independence for Ireland from Great Britain
Radioactivity
A form of energy released as atoms decay
Assembly line
In a factory, an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in a manufacture.
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher and economist, led the utilitarian movement. Believed that it was wrong that workers should lead deprived live that sometimes involved starvation.
Mass culture
The production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience.
