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Industrial Revolution
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12th Grade
02/07/2013

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James Watt
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Scottish engineer who created the steam engine that worked faster and more efficiently than earlier engines, he continued improving the engine
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James Arkwright
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Englishman who invented the spinning frame, later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power. He also patented a carding engine that could convert raw cotton into yarn. A self-made man, he was a leading entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution. Arkwright's achievement was to combine power, machinery, semi-skilled labor and a new raw material (cotton) to create, more than a century before Ford, mass produced yarn. His skills of organization made him, more than anyone else, the creator of the modern factory system, especially in his mill at Cromford.
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Spinning/water frame
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is an Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibers such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way.
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Sir Robert Peel
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Politician from Great Britain (1788-1850) a Conservative Prime Minister who created a modern police force, helped to form the Conservative Party after the dissolution of the Tory Party, and he repealed the Corn Laws
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Robert Owen
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Mill owner who worked for child labor laws; he was radical and founds the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union, and utopian socialist; believed that humans would show their natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment
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William Lovett
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In 1836, He and other London radical artisans formed the London Working Men's Association (for skilled labor only) (eventually known as the Chartist Movement) and in 1838 issued the Charter, demanding six specific reforms
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Thomas Malthus
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(1766-1834) "Essay on the Principle of Population." "prudent restraint" was only hope off warding off "positive checks" of famine, war, and disease
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David Ricardo
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Iron Law of Wages-because of population growth wages would sink and wages would be only high enough that workers wouldn't starve.
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Zollverein
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Tariff free region of Germany
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Credit Mobilier
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founded by Isaac and Emile Pereire. bank used saving of thousand investors in transportation and industry
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Chartism
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a worker's political movement that sought universal male suffrage, shorter work hours, and cheap bread
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Proto-industrialization
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preliminary shift away from an agricultural economy; workers became full- or part-time producers who worked at home in a capitalist system in which materials, work, orders, and sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to the Industrial revolution
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cottage industry
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Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.
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Flying shuttle; spinning jenny;
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Invention that made weaving cloth easier and faster; A machine produced by James Hargreaves in 1765 to mass produce thread
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Agricultural Revolution
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During the Industrial Revolution farmers started to experiment in their farming methods
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Navigation Act
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An act which stated any goods transferred to and from the colonies had to be taken on English ships with 75% English crews.
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Corn Laws
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1815 tariff on imported grain to protect domestic producers. Never worked well.
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transportation revolution
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By 1850s, railroad transportation was fairly cheap and widespread. It allowed goods to be moved in large quantities over long distances, and it reduced travel time.
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Robert Fulton
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American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship
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Luddites
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Workers in Britain who responded to replacement of human labor by machines during the Industrial Revolution by attempting to destroy the machines
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Combination Acts
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These were the laws passed by the Parliament that prohibited the English people from forming a union
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Saddler Commission
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Investigated working conditions helped initiate legislation to improve conditions in factories
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Factory Act of 1833
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Created factory workday for children ages 9-13 to 8 hours a day; N/A to home; outlawed child labor under 9 yrs old
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Mines Act of 1842
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Significant regulation in coal mines in Britain. Forbade employment underground of women and girls and boys under 10.
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Second Industrial Revolution
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Steel, chemicals, electricity. This is the name for the new wave of more heavy industrialization starting around the 1860s
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Edwin Chadwick
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English social reformer who worked to improve conditions for the poor through better hygiene and government programs. "sanitary idea"
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Impressionism
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An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing
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Cubism
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an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
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Expressionism
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emphasizes the life of the mind and feelings rather than the realistic external details of everyday life
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