Industrialization

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Communism

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Economic and social system where the property and means of production are controlled by society as a whole

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Urbanization

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Movement of people from rural areas to cities

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Utopia

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An ideal society

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Laissez faire

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Doctrine based on the belief that government should not interfere with business

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Entrepreneurs

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People who organized and managed businesses

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Standard of living

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General measures of the quality of life

Question 7

Cottage Industry

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System of production prior to the factory system

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Socialism

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Economic system where the property and means of production are controlled by the government

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Capitalism

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Economic system where the property and the means of production are controlled by individuals

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Bentham

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Author and philosopher who created Utilitarianism

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Utilitarianism

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Ideas and people should be judged on their usefulness and believed in doing what did the greatest good for the greatest number of people

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Mathis

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Economist who believed that without wars and epidemics to kill off excess population there would be too many poor and miserable people

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Marx

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Economist who believed violent revolution to destroy capitalism

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Adam Smith

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Scottish economist who believed in the free-market system of capitalism

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Agricultural Revolution

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Change in society prior to Industrialization which allowed for a larger labor force outside of farming

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Industrial Revolution

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Increased output of machine made goods that began in England during the 18th-century

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Unions

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Name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms

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Textiles

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First area to undergo major industrialization

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Steam Engine

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Invention from Watt which changed how industry was powered

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Napoleonic Wars

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Caused delay of industrialization on the content of Europe

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The Rocket

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Name of the first financially successful train

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Sufferage

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The right to vote

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Water power

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Source of power for the first factories

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Factors of production

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The resources - including land, labor, and capital that are needed to produce goods and services

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Capital

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In economic terms this is another word for wealth and usually refers to money someone invests this wealth for a particular purpose

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Factories

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A large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods

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Collective bargaining

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Negotiations between workers and their employers

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Crop rotation

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The system of growing a different group in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land

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Stock

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Certain rights of ownership in a corporation

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Enclosure

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One of the fetched in or hedged in fields created by wealthy British landowners on land that was formerly worked by village farmers

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Clermont

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The first financially successful steamboat operated by Robert Fulton in 1807 as he ferried passengers and raw materials up and down New York’s Hudson River

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Luddites

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A group of workers who in frustration over their loss of work attacked factories in northern England destroying machinery

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Corporation

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

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Middle class

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A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, businesspeople, and wealthy farmers

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Strikes

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An organized refusal to work

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Factory Act of 1819

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First of many British laws restricting working age and hours in England’s factories

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Industrialization

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The development of industries for the machine production of goods

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Horace Mann

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Father of public education

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David Richardo

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Economist who argued for the Iron Law of Wages

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John Stewart Mill

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Follower of Bentham

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Robert Owen

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Utopian, British cotton manufacturer believed that humans would reveal their true natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment

Question 42

William Wilberforce

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British reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave trade in 1807

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Jane Addams

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The founder of Hull House in Chicago, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes