Unit X Industrial Revolution Flashcards
What is the biggest resource that caused great Britain to strive during the Industrial Rev?
water
What did the luddites movement lead to?
unions
What did unions achieve?
Workers rights
What is Owen do and was he successful?
consolidated a trade union but failed
Who are chartists
British workers seeking political democracy and reform
What did chartists want?
universal male suffrage no property qualification for parliament establish more equity in districts secret ballots house of commons salaries reduction of work hours
What did the Saddler’s commission do?
improved the working conditions
What did the factory act of 1833 do?
limited the workday of children
prohibited hiring kids under the age of 9
elementary schools requirements
Who wrote “The Condition of the Working Class in England”?
Engels
How did Parliament deal with machine breaking?
they made it a capital crime
What were the elements of the first Industrial Revolution?
agriculture, steam, coal, iron
What were the elements of the second revolution?
steel, electricity, oil, chemicals
What was the importance of steel?
it was stronger and lighter
What factors slowed down the continent from industrialization?
War, money, lack of people
Who believed the middle class is ruthlessly exploiting the working class?
Engels
What movement in Agriculture spurred the Industrial revolution?
enclosure movement
The term proletarianization refers to
labor becoming a commodity vulnerable to the marketplace
In most of Europe in the mid-1800s, most employed women worked where?
outside of factories
What was an economic consequence of the railways?
emphasis on consumer goods
The transition to becoming a wage laborer, after working as an artisan, entailed a loss of what
Autonomy
The shared elements in early socialist thought were the beliefs that
free market could not produce enough goods
society should be organized as a community rather than a collection of individuals
The Chartists lost most of their support when
Economic prosperity returned to England
The biggest factor in changing the structure of the working class family was
The mechanization of weaving
How did Britain differ from the Continent?
it practiced free trade and the Continent used protective tariffs
The conclusions of Malthus and Ricardo relative to economic affairs suggested that?
liberals were right to reject government interference in economic affairs because it could do no good.
Robert Owen’s only success was the?:
organization of consumers’ cooperatives.
During the century following 1832, the MAIN objective of the Reform Acts passed by the British Parliament was the?
extension of suffrage.
The group that gained most political power as a result of the Reform Bill of 1832 was the?:
middle-class people of the towns.
