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The Industrial Revolution
Q3 terms - Industrial Revolution
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11th Grade
03/08/2010

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industrial revolution
Definition
shift to large factories, mass production, large markets.
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cotton industry
Definition
new inventions enabled weavers to double their output. These new machines had to be located next to rivers so there were mill villages.
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canals
Definition
helped open up new markets, but were quickly overtaken by railroads.
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Richard Arkwright and James Hargreaves
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Richard Arkwright – water frame; Hargreaves – spinning jenny
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Samuel Compton and Edmund Cartwright
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invented the “mule” >> advanced spinning.
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hand loom weavers
Definition
they kind of went out of business because they started bringing people to the factories.
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coal
Definition
needed to power the steam engine.
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coke
Definition
coke is a type of coal after it has undergone
“destructive distillation” – used to make iron, a better quality iron.
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Thomas Newcommen
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created the steam engine
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James Watt and the rotary engine
Definition
rotary engine (developed by Watt) could operate machinery. Tireless source of power.
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india
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british colony, really cheap labor.
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Henry Cort and puddling
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created a new way to smelt iron, making it higher quality.
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George Stephenson's Rocket
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first train on a public railway line, 16mph.
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railroads
Definition
demand for coal and iron furthered those industries, new investment opportunities, new jobs, new markets, reduced the price of goods.
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factory life
Definition
wage system, more discipline, working hours >> shift in lifestyle.
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methodism
Definition
industrial factory habits were incorporated into religion, like to follow a disciplined path.
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Great exhibition of 1851
Definition
GB organizes the world’s first industrial fair.
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the crystal palace
Definition
a palace made out of glass containing 100,000 exhibits. It had trees inside showing how man’s domination of nature.
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Napoleon's continental system
Definition
attempted to prevent british goods from reaching the European continent, which ruined some previously successful ports.
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Friedrich List
Definition
german writer who emigrated to America and returned to germany as the US consul. National system of political economy” he promoted industrialization as the surest way to develop a nation’s strength.
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Credit Mobilier and Banque de Belgique
Definition
French and Belgian joint stock investment banks. These banks made it easier to invest.
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Samuel Slater
Definition
a british person who brings british secrets of the textile industry to the US.
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The American System
Definition
interchangeable parts, makes mass production easier.
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steamboats
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facilitated transportation in the US, b/c it was so big.
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Irelands Great Hunger
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in the summer of 1845 potato blight starves everyone. Lots of people die. The Irish are really pissed because the british had surplus food that they could have given to the Irish/...
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the potato
Definition
became a staple for the irish poor.
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Suburbs
Definition
people leave the rural areas and got o the cities. Suburbs became possible b/c of public transportation.
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Poor law commisioners
Definition
these investigators were struck by the poor conditions in cities.
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Edwin Chadwick
Definition
social reformer
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Bourgeois
Definition
the meaning of this word changed, and came to mean people involved in commerce, industry, and banking.
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Barclays and Lloyds
Definition
bankers (example of a family belonging to a religious minority that’s very powerful)
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Quakers
Definition
puritans in America.
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"new elites"
Definition
the upper middle class.
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"bad air"
Definition
bad environmental conditions in the factories. >> environmental damage (visible) done by factories.
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child labor
Definition
children were regarded as adults who helped support the family.
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trade unions
Definition
gave more power to the workers.
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combination acts
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prohibited trade unions.
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Robert Owen
Definition
proponent of national unions
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Grand National Consolidated Trades Union
Definition
a really big union, tried to fight for the eight hour work day.
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Luddites
Definition
people living in the mountains who destroyed machines to try and stop the industrial revolution.
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Ten hours act
Definition
limited the number of working hours.
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William Wordsworth
Definition
an English poet
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Chartism
Definition
its aim was to achieve political democracy. “peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must”
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factory acts
Definition
1833 >> reform, child labor laws and suck
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William Wordsworth
Definition
A romantic poet. nature.
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