Industrial revolution Flashcards

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What is a Agrarian society?

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A society that produces all of there own things for themselves and has little shops and business/industries

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What is the Industrial revolution?

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The rise of industries and business

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The Industrial revolution lead up to……

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  • Availability of labor power (both numbers and ability)
  • Institutions that support economic activity and provide incentives for it
  • Accumulations of capital for financing enterprises and innovations
  • Technological innovations
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What is CAPITAL in terms of financing?

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Money earned from a self owned business that goes back into the business

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What this leads to is……

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  • a greater consumer society (more people buying)
  • increased geographic mobility
  • transformed employer-worker relations
  • decline of domestic manufacturing (making things at home)
  • erode traditional community and family solidarities
  • european exploration around the globe
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The industrial revolution caused more what?

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globalization

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Early Modern European Market Economy

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  • less government restrictions on labor and trade in commodities (capitalism)
  • Agricultural Revolution
  • Putting-out system
  • New financial practices and institutes
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Agricultural Revolution?

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Farming

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Putting-out system?

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when a big business uses sub contractors(smaller business) to make products
Like a person calling carpenter to fix their house

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What are some of the new financial practices and institutions?

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  • insurance
  • banking institutions
  • property rights
  • bank of england
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Who was the first nation to industrialize and why?

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England becuase of textile(clothing)

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Worldwide Economic Network

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Mercantilism

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What is Mercantilism?

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Government regulated trading (import little and export a lot)

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Transatlantic Slave Labor

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  • Middle Passage
  • Triangle Trade
  • Plantation Economy’s
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What were some over seas products?

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Sugar, tea, silks, tabaco, rum, coffee

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Where did Agricultural goods come from?

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America

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What did foreign land provide?

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Raw materials

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What were commercial rivalries and their influences on diplomacy among European states?

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  • European sea powers vying from the Atlantic
  • Portuguese, Dutch, French, British rivalry in Asia culminated in british domination in India and Dutch control of the Indies
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Influences

How has the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment changed Europeans way of thinking?

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People were coming up with more ideas on how to fix things and make things easier.

20
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Experiences of everyday life….

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Agricultural Revolution

21
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What was brought under control?

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Diseases

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Concerns for privacy?

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  • Homes were built to include private retreats

- Novels encouraged private emotions

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What were some consumer goods?

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Porcelain, cotton, linen, mirrors, prints

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What were some leisure places?

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Coffee houses, taverns, theaters, opera houses

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What were family and private life problems?

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  • Illegitimate births increased, but population growth was limited by marriage and early birth control.
  • Infant and child mortality decreased and commercial wealth increased leading to more family time.
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What was an effect of growing cities on the Agricultural Revolution?

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Agricultural Revolution used less workers