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Prior to the Industrial Revolution most people lived and worked in _________.
small farming villages
Rapid Industrial growth that began in England in the mid 1700s
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in _______. (location)
Great Britain
The Industrial Revolution began during the middle of the ________.
18th Century/1700s
The Industrial Revolution brought on a rapid concentration of ________.
people in cities
Changed the nature of work for many people
Industrial Revolution
Rise of urban industrial economies during 1700s & 1800s
Industrial Revolution
Public lands where farmers gathered wood grazed livestock, and raised crops
Village commons
Practice of fencing off land formerly open to common grazing and cultivation
Enclosure
Ended small farmers use of public lands
Enclosure movement
The enclosure movement displaced farmers who became a ________.
labor supply
New tools & techniques result in greater crop & livestock production
Agricultural Revolution
The agricultural revolution helped Great Britain lead the ___________.
Industrial Revolution
The enclosure movement both displaced farmers and increased _______.
agricultural production
Improved agricultural techniques (agricultural revolution) increased the ____.
food supply
An increased food supply increased the ______.
population
Population growth & the enclosure movement resulted in a larger __________.
labor supply
The industrial revolution was also triggered by new technologies and new sources of ______.
energy & materials
One vital source of energy in the Industrial Revolution was coal which was used to power the _________.
steam engine
Inventor of the first practical steam engine.
James Watt
Enabled factories to run without the need of water power.
Steam Engine
Coal was a vital source of fuel in the production of __________
Iron
His technique of smelting iron (separating iron from its ore) led to less expensive & better quality iron.
Adam Darby
Capital, natural resources, & labor supply were key elements in Britain’s _______.
industrial success
Money to invest in labor, machines, & raw materials
capital
Large scale farming, overseas commerce, & the slave trade helped the British produce ____.
capital
Industry provided the aristocracy and the middle class a chance to _______.
invest
Water power, Iron & coal were British _____.
raw materials
A growing population in Great Britain (and later elsewhere) also increase the _________ for goods.
demand
System where raw cotton was given to peasant families and made into cloth in their homes.
putting-out system
Risk-taking people who set up industries by bringing together capital, labor, & new industrial inventions.
Entrepreneurs
First industry to be industrialized
Textile
Fabric industry
Textile
Enabled cotton weavers to outpace cotton spinners.
flying shuttle
Enabled cotton spinners to produce enough thread to keep up with the weavers.
spinning jenny
The flying shuttle and the spinning jenny made it difficult for America to produce enough ____.
cotton
The bottle neck in the production of cotton.
cleaning out the seeds
Developed the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Cleaned the seeds out of cotton.
Cotton Gin
The mechanization of the textile industry came about through a series of _______.
inventions
Organized method of production; brought workers and machines together under control of managers.
factory system
Individuals own the means of production
capitalism
Factories, farms, and mines, railways & other businesses.
Means of Production
Individuals decide what is produced and how money is spent. (free enterprise)
Capitalism
If supply goes up prices go ____.
down
If demand goes up prices go ____.
up
Continually expanding factories or investing in new businesses.
Industrial Capitalism
As production increased people needed a way to get raw materials to the factories, and finished products to the markets faster, this resulted in a ________.
transportation revolution
Turnpikes, canals, the steam locomotive, & the railroads were all part of the _______.
transportation revolution
As the Industrial Revolution progressed one change led to _______.
another
The mass movement of people from the countryside to the cities as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
Urbanization
Grew up around both mines and factories.
cities
The new middle class created by the Industrial revolution was made up of ________.
entrepreneurs
As urbanization took place THEY lived in nice neighborhoods.
middle and upper class
As a result of urbanization most of the poor lived in ________.
tenements
Multistory buildings divided into apartments.
tenements
Often had no running water and no sewage or sanitation system.
tenements
The lack of a sewage system often resulted in contaminated drinking water and the _______.
spread of diseases
Factory work was often monotonous and _____.
dangerous
Shifts in the factories often lasted ________.
12 to 16 hours 6 or 7 days a week
Children often started working in the factories at the ages of _______.
7 or 8
Workers organizations which eventually won the right to ask for better wages, hours and working conditions.
labor unions
They believed that a free market would help everyone not just the rich.
Business leaders/entrepreneurs
A completely free market economy with no government interference.
laissez-faire
Owners of railroads, factories & mines advocated ___________ economies.
laissez-faire
He believed the poor would always suffer because the population would always grow faster than the food supply.
Thomas Malthus
Malthus did not want the government to help the poor because he believed if it did they would continue to _________.
have more children
Developed the concept of utilitarianism.
Jeremy Bentham
Every action should be judged by its contribution to human happiness or the reduction of human misery.
Utilitarianism
Measuring an action by its usefulness.
Utilitarianism
He rejected laissez-faire economies on grounds of utilitarianism.
John Stuart Mill
Argued for legislation against monopolies & for the protection of individual liberties
John Stuart Mill
Community ownership of the means of production.
Socialism
No competition, share the wealth.
Socialism
Wanted to create small separate socialist communities.
Utopian Socialists
Attempted to create socialist communities in Scotland & New Harmony, Indiana.
Robert Owen
Scientific Socialism
Communism
Marxism
Communism
Intellectual founder of Communism.
Karl Marx
Marx's partner and co-author of the Communist Manifesto.
Friedrich Engel's
Marxism along with other socialist ideologies grew out of a reaction to the harsh conditions imposed on workers by the _____.
Industrial Revolution
According to Marx all of history is characterized by _____.
class struggle
Communism is a form of _____.
socialism
Capitalists using workers' labor for their own advantage.
exploitation
Owners of the means of production. (factories)
capitalists or bourgeoisie
Exploited factory workers. (name for)
proletariat
Class struggle will lead to a workers' revolt. (Marx)
Theory of History
After the workers revolt the government will wither away and there will be a _______. (Marx)
Classless Society
Pamphlet in which Marx calls for a workers' revolt.
Communist Manifesto
Both predicted and advocated a workers revolt.
Karl Marx
Marx believed it was the opiate of the masses.
Religion