Whap key term 4 Flashcards
Estates-General
France traditional National Assembly with 3 groups of people clergy, nobility and commoner(biggest but have the least power)
National Assembly
The commoners self declared government of France
Declaration of the right of man
Declaration of the National Assembly’s political rights
Jacobins
Violent advocates during the French Revolution lead by Maximilian Robespierre
Enclosure
Communal land divided into farm plots
Urbanization
Significant growth of cities
Domestic system
Merchants would send materials to producer who worked in their homes to make goods.
Flying shuttle
Industrialized the weaving process
Spinning jenny
It spun cloth to help speed up cotton manufacturing
Cotton gin
Sped up textile production by separating cotton fibers from their seeds
Steam engine
Used steam to power boats
Interchangeable part
Parts made uniform so easily replaced
Assembly line
A system of production were one person had one job
Free market system(capitalism)
The means of production are privately owned and supply and demand would determine prices
Laissez-faire capitalism
Government doesn’t regulate the economy
Socialism
Production and distribution of goods is controlled by the government
Communism
Everything is shared equally among everyone
Labor unions
A organization of workers fighting for good work conditions
Social mobility
Being able to move from one social class to the next
Communist manifesto
A book by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that says capitalism will fail
Proletariat
The worker class that has no control
Bourgeoisie
The ruling class in capitalist society
Natural rights
Rights that everyone has
Suffrage
The right to vote, commonly connected with woman.