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The Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) Flashcards

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long, slow, uneven, process in which production shifted from simple tools to complex machines

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The Industrial Revolution

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Thomas Newcomen

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developed the steam engine powered by coal

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James Watt (1760s)

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improved the steam engine

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Father of the Industrial Revolution

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James Watt

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Coal was used to produce______

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steel

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Bessemer Process

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faster, cheaper way of producing steel (developed by Henry Bessemer)

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Factors of Production

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resources, labor, capital

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had large supplies of coal and iron; also had colonies all over the world

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land and natural resources

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had plenty of displaced farmers and skilled mechanics, eager to meet growing demand for new, practical inventions

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labor

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prosperous Great Britain economy= buisness class and capital(money) to invest, and consumer goods were affordable to all

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capital

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in 1600s, cotton cloth imported from ______ had become popular

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India

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workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by merchants/entrepreneurs

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Domestic System

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as demand for cloth grew, inventors came up with a series of inventions that revolutionized GB’s(Great Britian) __________

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textile industry

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brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods.

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factory system

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the domestic system was replaced by the ________ system

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factory

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used the first steam engine to power the first steam boat

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Robert Fulton

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The Industrial Revolution brought rapid _____________

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urbanization

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main rapid spreading disease

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cholera

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tiny rooms where many poor people who lived in the slums were packed into

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tenaments

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formed to fight for better conditions

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labor unions

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another word for working class

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proletariat

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another word for middle class

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bourgeoisie

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what does laissez- faire mean

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hands off

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a free market would produce more goods at lower prices, making products more affordable

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Adam Smith

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a growing economy would push capitalists to reinvest profits in new buisness’

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Adam Smith

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population would outpace food supply

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Thomas Malthus

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as long as population increased, the poor would suffer

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Thomas Malthus

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people should have fewer children

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Thomas Malthus

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the “iron law of wages”= when wages were high, families had more children

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David Ricardo

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more children= a larger labor supply, which leads to lower wages and higher unemployment

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David Ricardo

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a person who owns a buisness and is personally responsible for its debts

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sole proprietorship

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2 or more people own a buisness

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partnership

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a buisness owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts (investors, [share] stocks, dividends)

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corporation

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the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service

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monopoly (aka. a trust)

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an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition

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cartel (aka. syndicate)

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dominat model for a buisness

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capitalism

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John D. Rockefeller

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Standard Oil Trust (est. 1882)

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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railroads

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Andrew Carnegie

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steele

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a slowdown in a nation’s economy

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recession

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a severe and prolonged downturn in economic activity, and extreme recession

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depression

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when a company acquires competitors in the same industry doing the same stage of production for the creation of monopoly

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horizontal integration

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one company controls multiple stages of production

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vertical integration

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goal of society should be “greatest happiness for greatest number”

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utilitarianism

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supported individual freedom, but saw need for government under certain circumstances

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Jeremy Bentham

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wanted government to improve the hard lives of working class (and believed actions are right if they help happiness and wrong if they cause pain

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John Stuart Mill

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society as a whole, rather than individuals, own and operate factors of production

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socialism

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set up a model community in Scotland and put Utopian ideas into practice

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Robert Owen

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established the AFL (American Federation of Labor) in 1881 for craft workers

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Samuel Gompers

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established the American railway Union

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Eugene V. Debs

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established the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) for factory type workers

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William Haywood

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the workers main weapon against management and owners of the factories was the________

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strike

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workplace where ALL employees must belong to a labor union

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closed shop

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workplace where union membership is NOT required

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open shop

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outlined a new economic theory: scientific socialism (aka. communism)

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Karl Marx

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the modern class struggle pittied the __________(bourgeoisie) against the ___________(proletariat)

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middle class; working class

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economic system where competition determines prices and wages

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capitalism

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economic system in which government or workers own most of the buisnesses in a country

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socialism

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government ownership of all property and buisnesses

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communism

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who own’s the factories of production in capitalism?

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private individuals

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who own’s the factories of production in socialism?

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government and individuals

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who own’s the factories of production in communism?

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government

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what was the government’s role in capitalism?

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in “laissez-faire” hand off the economy

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what was the government’s role in socialism?

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stepped in sometimes on behalf of workers

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what was the government’s role in communism?

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control and distribute resources

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who were the supporters of capitalism?

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rich buisness owners
“bourgeoisie”
Adam Smith

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who were the supporters of socialism?

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workers
“proletariat”
Robert Owen (utopian socialist)

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who were the supporters of communism?

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workers
“proletariat”
Karl Marx

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