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Industrial Revolution (World History) Flashcards

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Industrialization

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The development of industries for the machine production of goods.

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Where the Industrial Revolution Started

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Great Britain

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Reasons for the large number of workers in Great Britain

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Enclosure movement, agricultural revolution, and population growth

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3 Factors of Production in Great Britain

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Capital, natural resources, and labor.

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Power sources for early machines and factories

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First water, then steam.

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How Urbanization evolved during the Industrial Revolution

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Factories built by water, housing for the workers, cities grew quickly around factories as people came who needed jobs.

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Living and Working Conditions for Factory Workers

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Living conditions:
Not enough housing and very poor housing led to many issues
- Tenemants
- Disease rampant because poor hygiene
- Running waste in the streets
- No running water
Working conditions:
- Dependent on wages instead of crops
- Repetitive and monotous
- Rapid spread of disease because of ventilation issues

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Improvements in the city

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Electricity, water and sewage systems, public transportation

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The middle class and ways life improved (2 Q)

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Had a specific skill or knowledge that allowed them to get better paying jobs. Better houses, better Quality of Life.

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Importance of Transcontinental Railroads and Canals

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Move raw materials faster, get products to market faster, travel faster.

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Benefits of Improved Transportation

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Created thousands of jobs, people could live further from work, industry could move goods faster.

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Shift in power in Industrialized countries

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Countries that industrialized gained power economically, militarily, and socially.

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Causes and effects of the Industrial Revolt.

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Causes:
- Increased agricultural productivity
- growing population
- growing demand for mass-produced goods
- improved tech.
Effects:
- Rise of factories
- Urbanization
- Rise of urban working class
- Changes in transportation and comms.
- Big business
- medical care progress
- Expansion of Middle Class
- Increase in pollution

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Strike

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To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands.

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Enclosure

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Fenced-in or hedged-in field created by a wealthy landowner

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Crop rotation

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Growing a different crop in a field each year to help the soil be more fertile.

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Urbanization

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Growth of cities, people moving to cities, happened quickly

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Stock

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Shares of ownership in a company that are sold in order to operate the business

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Corporation

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Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not responsible for its debt

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Capitalism

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Economic system based on private ownership and the investment of money in business in order to make a profit.

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Communism

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Economic system - all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, all goods and services are shared equally.

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Industrial Revolution

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The shift started in England during 1700s, from making goods by hand to making them by machine.

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Laissez Faire economics

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No govt. regulation or interference.

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Enclosure movement

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Farmers closed in their lands by building fences. Put small farmers out of work, but made more money and better crop production for large owners.

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Agriculture Revolution

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Agriculture advancements included the seed drill, crop rotation, and improved breeding techniques.

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Interchangeable parts

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Identical components that could be used in place on one another in manufacturing.

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Assembly line

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Complex job to smaller tasks

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Inventions of the industrial age

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Alfred Nobel - dynamite
Wright Bros - airplane
Marconi - radio
Morse - Telegraph
Bell - Telephone

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