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