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Industry where the Industrial Revolution began |
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Where workers made cloth before the Industrial Revolurtion |
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in their own cottages (at home) |
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Factories were located next to these. |
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Where workers worked, after the Industrial Revolution began. |
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Cotton-cleaning machine that dramatically increased cotton production |
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Weaving machine invented in 1733 that doubled a weaver's daily output |
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Spinning machine of 1764 named after the inventor's daughter |
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Scottish engineer who improved the steam engine |
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This replaced water as the major source of power. |
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American inventor of the cotton-cleaning machine |
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Manufacture of standard good in large quantities |
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Parts that fit any example of a particular product |
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Englishman who found how to make steel from iron |
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Material that replaced iron in machines |
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Material that replaced charcoal for smelting iron |
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American inventor of the mechanical reaper |
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Fencing off of formerly common land in England |
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Inventor of the weaving machine |
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Inventor of the spinning machine |
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English engineer who developed the first practical steam engine |
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English inventor of the water frame for spinning |
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Weaving machine invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785 |
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Tyoe of power that replaced wind on ships |
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American developer of the first successful steamboat |
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Waterways built to connect cities and rivers |
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Flat-bottomed boat used on canals |
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The Industrial Revolution's chief means of land transportation |
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Morse's system of dots and dashes |
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American who developed the telegraph |
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Improved roads developed by the Scot John McAdam |
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Devices that control the level of water in canals |
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Fulton's famous steamboat |
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Invention that sent electrical impulses over wire |
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Heavily insultated communications wires laid underwater |
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Improved transportation was necessary to move these items |
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raw materials and finished goods |
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Chief means of land transportation before the Industrial Revolution |
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by horse or cart (over roads) |
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Steam engines on wheels that ran on rails |
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New form of personal transportation that first hit the roads in the late 1800s |
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Steamboat that crossed the Atlantic in 1838 |
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English engineer who won a locomotive-building contest |
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Speedy locomotive that started an English railroad-building boom |
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Italian who built the first electric battery |
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American responsible for laying the trans-Atlantic cable |
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Englishman who produced electricity with a magnet |
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Class that increased and gained political power during the Industrial Revolution |
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Class created by the Industrial Revolution |
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the industrial working class (proletariat) |
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Group of society that had to work along with adults |
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Centers of population that grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution |
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Working-class children had no time for either of these two activities. |
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going to school and playing |
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Increase in the number of people |
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Working conditions in factories |
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noisy, dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable |
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Workers who were paid lower wages |
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What the Proletariat had to sell in order to live |
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Type of worker that decreased |
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farm workers (self-employed workers) |
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New groups that ran the factories, neither owners nor laborers |
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Workers often had to do this to be near the factories. |
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Type of labor most in demand at factories |
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Great fear of urban factory workers |
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Condition of air and water in cities |
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Social class that lost power as the Industrial Revolution continued |
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the aristocracy (upper classes) |
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Cities grew around these. |
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Average length of the industrial working day |
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Normal length of the Industrial working week |
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Buildings that housed many people |
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People who owned the means of production |
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Type of labor limited by early reform laws |
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Workers' associations allowed in England after 1824 |
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Refusals to work in order to gain demands |
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Famous English novelist who described the terrible working conditions |
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New, shorter workday for textile mills |
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Negotiating by unions and management |
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Living standards improved when these became available to workers. |
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chgeap factory (consumer) goods |
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Social class that supported factory workers against owners |
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System in which the public owed the means of production |
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Socialists who designed model communities |
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Welsh socialist who established a utopian community for his factory workers |
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Developer of "scientific socialism" |
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Groups that were in opposition under capitalism, according to Marx |
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the bourgeoisie (capitalists) vs. the Proletariat (workers) |
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Economic theory meaning "let do" favored by business owners |
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Englishman who wrote about increasing population |
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English businessman who wrote that working class poverty was unavoidable |
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English philosopher who wrote that a government should promote social welfare |
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Owen's utopian factory community in Scotland |
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Marx's study of capitalism |
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