Industrial Revolution

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Effects of the commercial revolution

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Great Britain becomes most highly developed banking system in Europe

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Commercial revolution

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Successful British merchants had capital for investment

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Incentives of the textile

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Large global demand for cotton cloth

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John Kay

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Invented the flying shuttle enabling a single weaver to work twice as fast

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James Hargreaves

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Invents spinning Jenny

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Richard Arkwright

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Water frame

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Samuel Crompton

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Invents the mule

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Edmund Cartwright

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Invents power loom

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Eli Whitney

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Invents the Cottongin

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Results of continues technological improvements during the textile industry

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Shift from human animal to mechanical power, Increase in British cotton production

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James Watt

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Patented the first steam engine

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Replaced water power in British textile factories

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The steam engine

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Key roll in boosting iron production during the Industrial Revolution

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Steam power

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Effects of railroads during the Industrial Revolution

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Stimulated further industrial growth, Reduce the cost of shipping freight, Promoted leisure travel

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Manufactured one half the world’s cotton in 1850

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Great Britain

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The great exhibition

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Celebrated Britain’s undisputed economic and technological dominance

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The factory system

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Workers used machines manufactured goods

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Effects of the factory system

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The putting out system disappeared, Exposed workers to dangerous machines and Deadly diseases, Widespread employment of women and children

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The factory system transformed many small towns into

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Crowded cities

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During the Industrial Revolution workers lived in

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Crowded slums that lacked sanitation

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enjoyed political power and leisure time during the Industrial Revolution

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The middle class or bourgeoisie

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Commonly accepted political policy during the Industrial Revolution

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Adam Smith’s laissez faire

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Thomas Malthus

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Argued that human population grows geometrically while food Supply expands arithmetically

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David Ricardo

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Formulated the iron law of wages

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The iron law of wages

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David Ricardo, Increasing working class wages would prompt laborers to have more children. As the supply of workers increased, their wages would decline

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Luddites

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Broke into early textile factories and smashed machinery

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Effects of the Luddites

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New laws against the destruction of machines, formation of labor unions.

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The combination and of 1799 and 1800

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Prohibited British labor unions

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Socialism During the Industrial Revolution

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The existing distribution of wealth is unjust

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Utopian societies

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Societies based on cooperation instead of competition

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Marx argue that 19 century society had been split into

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The bourgeoisie and the proletariat

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Karl Marx argued that class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat Would lead to

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Dictatorship of the proletariat