Industrial revolution Flashcards

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Enclosure movement

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The enclosure movement was this: wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies of scale in farming huge tracts of land. The enclosure movement led to improved crop production, such as the rotation of crops.Jun 28, 2016

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crop rotation

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the action of rotating around an axis or center.

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Industrial revolution

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The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people’s way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, the people of England began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines.

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Factors of production

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The factors of production are resources that are the building blocks of the economy; they are what people use to produce goods and services. Economists divide the factors of production into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

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Mechanisation

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Mechanised agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanise the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity. In modern times, powered machinery has replaced many farm jobs formerly carried out by manual labour or by working animals such as oxen, horses and mules.

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Factory system

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The factory system is a mode of capitalist production that emerged in the late eighteenth century as a result of England’s Industrial Revolution.

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Cottage industry

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a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person’s home.

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entrepreneur

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a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

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Tenements

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a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
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a piece of land held by an owner

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MASS PRODUCTION

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Mass production”, “flow production” or “continuous production” is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines.

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Fordism

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Fordism is a term widely used to describe (1) the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism.

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Corporation

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company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

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Monopoly

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the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

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Strikes

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hit forcibly and deliberately with one’s hand or a weapon or other implement.

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Unions

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the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political context.

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Collective

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done by people acting as a group.

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bargaining

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negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.
“he bargained with the city council to rent the stadium”
synonyms: haggle, negotiate, discuss terms, hold talks, deal, barter, dicker; formaltreat
“they bargained over the contract”
part with something after negotiation but get little or nothing in return.
“his determination not to bargain away any of the province’s existing economic powers”
be prepared for; expect.
“I got more information than I’d bargained for”

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Eli whitney

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Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

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James watt

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James Watt FRS FRSE was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781

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Henry Bessemer

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Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. He also established the town of Sheffield as a major industrial centre.
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Richard Arkwrigh

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Sir Richard Arkwright was an inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.

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Robert fulton

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Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Claremont.

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Samuel morse

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

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Henry ford

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

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Jp morgan

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John Pierpont “J. P.” Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in late 19th and early 20th Century United States.

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Immigration

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the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

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Leisure

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use of free time for enjoyment.

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emigration

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the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

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Push and pull factors

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Definition. Push and pull factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them. A push factor is forceful, and a factor which relates to the country from which a person migrates. It is generally some problem which results in people wanting to migrate.

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Textiles

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type of cloth or woven fabric.

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middle class

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the social group between the upper and working classes, including professional and business workers and their families.

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Jane addam

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Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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Child labor laws

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child labor laws definition. Laws passed over many decades, beginning in the 1830s, by state and federal governments, forbidding the employment of children and young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs.

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Stuart mill

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John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, a utilitarian, and a liberal, whose work explores the consequences of a thoroughgoing empiricist outlook.

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utilitarianism

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the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
the doctrine that an action is right insofar as it promotes happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the guiding principle of conduct.

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Meiji Restoration

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The Meiji Restoration (明治維新 Meiji Ishin ?), also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji..