Latin american2 Flashcards
Land enclosure in the 1600’s and 1700’s resulted in?
Larger farms
Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it?
Created prosperity for a new and poverty for many
Abraham Darby made better quality iron by?
Using coal to smelt the iron
Steam became an efficient power source because of the improvements made by?
James Watt
The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by?
Bringing in investment capital
The development of steam power enabled the growth of?
Railroads
In what way were railroads an improvement over canals?
Railroads did NOT have to follow the course of the river
The putting-out system was a method of?
Producing cloth in individual homes
The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the?
Working class
Laws called “factory acts” were passed in the early 1800’s to?
Reform child labor
Most early factory workers were women because?
Employers could pay women less than men