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9 Cards in this Set
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Fearing the factory system would replace them, this group of laborers attacked factories & destroyed machines (1811-1816)
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Luddites
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British iventor of water frame (1796)
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Richard Arkwright
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Invented locomotive engine to revolutionize railways
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George Stephenson
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Economic policy of "hands off" -- the government should not interfere with businesses because the marketplace is goverened by an "invisible hand" which directs the economy. Advocated by Adam Smith.
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laissez-faire
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English creator of the pyrometer who produced inexpensive china and mechanizted the porcelain industry
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Josiah Wedgwood
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The system of textile workers laboring in their homes on a specific aspect of the process
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Cottage Industry / The Putting-Out System / The Domestic System
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Late-eighteenth century industrial movement centered in the US & Germany, included heavy industry and mass production
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Second Industrial Revolution
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This method produced a large number of items quickly & inexpensivly, along an assembly line
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Mass Production
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Scotsman who invented the steam engine in 1869
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James WAtt
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