The Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Enclosure movement
The process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers
Smelt
Separating iron from its ore
Capital
Money used to invest in enterprises
Enterprise
A business organization in an area such as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories
Turnpike
Private roads built by entrepreneurs who charged travelers a toll to use them
Putting out system
Cottage industry
Urbanization and what caused it
The movement of people to cities. Changes in farming, soaring population, and increasing demand for workers
Tenement
Multistory buildings divided into apartments
Labor union and their goals
Workers organizations. Wanted workers rights
Luddite movement
Smashed textile machines with sledgehammers and burned factories
Methodism
Rekindling hope among the poor and forgiveness and a better life to come
Utilitarianism
Goal of society should be “greatest happiness for the greatest number”
Socialism
System in which people as a whole rather than private individuals own and operate the means of production
Communism
System in which governments led by a small elite controlled all economic and political life
Proletariat
Working class
Social democracy
A political ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism
Dynamo
A machine that generates electricity
Bessemer process
A new process of making steel from iron
Anesthetic
A drug that prevents pain during surgery
Impressionism
School of painting that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions
Jethro Tull
Invented the seed drill
Thomas Newcomen
Invented the steam engine
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin
James Hargreaves
Invented the spinning jenny
Richard Arkwright
Invented the water frame
John Kay
Invented the flying shuttle
James Watt
Improved Newcomen’s steam engine