Industrialization Flashcards
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Agricultural Revolution
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-1700s agriculture revolutionizes
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Enclosures
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- Fenced in land used by large landowners
- New agricultural Methods
- Forced small farmers to move to cities and give up farming or become tenant farmers
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Crop Rotation
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- System of growing different crop in field each year to preserve the fertility of the land
- came middle ages
- increased crop production
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Industrialization
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- the development of industries for the machine production of goods
- needed natural resources like iron ore, coal, rivers, and harbors
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Factors of Production
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- The resources needed to produces goods and services
- land, labor, and capital
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Factories
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- large building in which machinery manufactures goods
- built near rivers and streams
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Entrepreneur
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-person who organizes, manages, and takes risks of business
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Urbanization
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- 1800-1850 the growth of cities and the migration of people into them
- cities doubled over
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Middle class
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- social class made up of skilled workers, business people, and wealthy farmers
- made up of a lower and upper class
- became wealthy
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Cooperation
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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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stocks
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-certain rights of ownership
12
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Industrialization Revolution
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-the shift, beginning in England during the middle of the 1700s, from making goods by hand to making them by machine