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David Copperfield
Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations |
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Merchants hired workers to produce woolens out of their homes
allowed workers to set their own hours |
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| Development of new machinery and sources of power would soon upset the domestic system |
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Allowed landowners to fence off any private land
forced many small farmers to move into the city for work |
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Land-natural resource
Labor-human resource
Capital- money or machinery
Entrepreneur- risk taker |
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| GB had huge supplies of iron and coal |
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| the principal raw material of the Industrial Revolution |
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Avoids a decrease in soil fertility
Ex. alternating between Soybeans and Corn |
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| Invented the seed drill: allowed farmers to plant seeds in straight neat rows |
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Cotton began to replace wool
the domestic system could not meet the need for cotton |
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| Wider fabrics could be woven at a faster pace |
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Spinning Jenny- revolutionized spinning in the home
Water Frame- spinning machine that was powered by water |
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| Brought workers and machines under one roof |
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| invented the steam engine |
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| First Steamboat "Clermont" sailed up and down the New York Hudson River |
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| Developed an inexspensive way of making steel from iron |
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British textile engineer who smuggled blue prints to America
Built the first water powered cotton mill in the U.S.
Pawtucket, RI (1789)
Father of the Industrial Revolution |
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British industrialists saw that they could make money by spreading the Industrial Revolution to other countries
Great Britain known as the workshop of the world |
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Economic system characterized by a free market for goods and services.
Private control of the factors of productions.
Adam Smith father of capitalism |
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father of American technology.
Developed the concept of interchangeable parts
Part which is pre manufactured and stored somewhere.
Gun that tamed the west “ Colt peace maker” |
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Father of scientific management.
Tells us the best way to do what we’re doing.
“Pay the worker, not the job”
Won USTA tennis championship. |
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Perfected the assembly line technique of mass production
Manufactured the Model T automobile for the Multitude.
Sold model T for 260$
Started the $5/8 hour day |
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Business organization with two or more owners
Owners are liable for all debts (aka unlimited liability) |
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Business organization owned by stockholder
Each stockholder enjoys limited liability
Raises capital by selling stock to the public |
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•Prosperity
•Recession
•Depression
•Recovery |
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Invented telegraph and Morse code
“What hath God wrought!” (1844)
Accomplished artist
…---… (SOS) |
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| Invented wireless telegraph…the forerunner of radio. |
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Invented the telephone.
Devoted to educated of the deaf. |
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| Developed an oil-burning internal-combustion engine. |
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Patented more than 1000 devices including: the phonograph and incandescent light bulb.
Aka the wizard of Menlo Park
Menlo Park, NJ was site of Edison’s research lab. |
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Refined the dirigible.
Blimp
Hindenburg disaster 1937
Hydrogen is flammable. |
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| Wilbur and Orville Wright |
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First flight of a motorized airplane (1903)
First flight of the Wright Brothers.
Kitty hawk, NC
Flew 120 feet
Kitty Hawk Flyer. |
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| The Rise of the Middle Class |
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| Gender based stereotypes were created and reinforced during the ind. Rev. |
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| Majority moved from farms to factories |
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Monotonous
Noisy
Long hours
Unventilated rooms |
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An organization of workers formed to promote collective bargaining with employers over wages, hours, fringe benefits, job security, and working conditions.
Collective bargaining: negotiations by a labor union w/ management. |
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Strike (work stoppage)
Sit down strike |
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Lock-out
Blacklists
Hiring of “scabs” (strikebreakers)
International workers of the world. |
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An early protestant group in England that was against industrialization.
Named after Ned Ludd
In the Early 1800’s, these English laborers smashed textile machines that were putting them out of work.
Some of the Luddites were hanged, and others were transported to Australia.
Today someone who is “anti-technology” would be called a Luddite. |
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