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22 Cards in this Set
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laws should provide greatest happiness for the greatest number of people; when did he do this?
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Jeremy Bentham; 1800
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argued that actions are right if they promote happiness and wrong if they cause pain; wanted government to improve lives of working class; wanted vote for workers and women
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John Stuart Mill
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set up a Utopian society that didn't do well
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Robert Owen
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THEY (two men) wrote The Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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everything is an eternal battle between the "haves" and the "have-nots", who he called the proletariats. He said the proletariats would always come out on top.
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Karl Marx
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Urged farmers to grow turnips, which restored the soil.
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Lord Charles Townshend
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Shed
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Build dikes, consolidated fields, and used fertilizer
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Dutch
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invented the seed drill, which deposited seeds in rows and therefore prevented the wasting of seeds
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Jethro Tull
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Almost like till (as in tilling the soil)
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exchanged news of experiments in farm journals and wrote articles about his model farm near ______
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King George III or "Farmer George." His farm was near Windsor Castle.
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You wouldn't think he'd be a farmer
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Developed a steam engine powered by coal to pump water out of mines; what year did he invent this engine?
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Thomas Newcomen, in 1712
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NEW invention
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A Scottish engineer who improved on Newcomen's engine; what year?
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James Watt in 1769
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He built the engine since Newcomen couldn't actually build it. He used Newcomen's plans.
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Pioneered new methods of producing iron; used coal to smelt iron and removed the impurities caused by coal; led to better-quality, less-expensive iron; what year?
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Abraham Darby in 1709
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invented the flying shuttle
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John Kay
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invented the spinning jenny that spun many threads at the same time; what year did he invent this in?
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James Hargreaves in 1764
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"Jenny" might have come from his first name, which begins with the same letter.
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invented the waterframe, which used water power to speed up spinning even further
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Richard Arkwright
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developed steam-powered locomotives to pull carriages along iron rails
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George Stephenson
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used Watt's steam engine to power the Clermont up the Hudson River in New York; his steam boat traveled at 5 mph; what year did he do this in?
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Robert Fulton in 1807
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he and his followers protested against the factories and the machines by burning down numerous factories
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Ned Ludd and the Luddites
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set up the Methodist Church
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John Wesley
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main prophet of laissez-faire economics; wrote Wealth of Nations; a free market would help everyone, not just the rich
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Adam Smith
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predicted that the population would outpace the food supply; the only checks on population are war, disease, and famine
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Thomas Malthus
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when wages were high, families had more children, which meant there were more people to do jobs so wages lower and unemployment would rise
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David Ricardo
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