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26 Cards in this Set
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Charles Townshend
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-"turnip townshend"
-urged farmers to grow turnips to restore exausted soil |
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Jethro Tull
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-invented seed drill which planted the seeds in a row
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Robert Bakewell
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-bred stronger horses and fatter livestock
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Thomas Newcomen
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developed steam engine used to pumpwater out of mines
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James Watt
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improved on Newcomen's steam engine
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Enclosure
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process of taking over and fencing off land formerly owned by peastant farmers
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Abraham Darby
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-used coal instead of wood to smelt iron
-found a way to remove impurities from coal |
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John Kay
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-invented the flying shuttle-
mase weavers faster than spinners |
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James Hargreaves
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invented the spinning jenny
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Richard Arkwright
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invented the waterframe
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Robet Fulton
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-used steam engine to power the Clermont up the hudson
-Clermont went 5 miles an hour |
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factory
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place that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
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turnpikes
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privately built roads that charged a fee to use them
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luddite
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protesters who felt that new machines were taking their jobs
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John wesley
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founded Methodist church
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Methodism
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-took message of salvation to slums
-rekindled hope -taught people to read and write |
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Urbanization
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movement of people to cities
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Thomas Malthus
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believed the only checks on population were war, disease, and fame
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"iron laws of wages"
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as wages go up, # of children increases
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John Stuart Mill
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argued actions are right if they promote happiness and wrong if they cause pain
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Utopians
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believed in comunities where work and poverty were shared
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The Communist Manifesto
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pamphlet writen by Marx and Engels
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ulilitarianism
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"the greates happiness for the greatest number"
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socialism
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work as the people as a whole not an individual
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communism
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sees struggle between boss and worker as inevitable
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proletariat
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working class
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