Industrial Revolution Flashcards
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Industrial Revolution
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The rapid emergence of modern industrial production during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Entrepreneurs
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A person who organizes and operates business ventures, especially in commerce and industry.
- Industrial Revolution encouraged entrepreners since it promtoted business
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Factory system
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Many workers producing goods in a repetitive series of steps and specialized tasks using machines
- Would later prove dangerous to the workers and provide horrible working environments
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Luddism
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The practice of destroying the machines that took jobs away from workers
- Inspired by Ned Ludd, a fictitious person
- Industrial sabotage would later become a capital offense
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