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26 Cards in this Set
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capital
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money to make money
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enclosure acts
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took over and fenced off land formerly shared by peasant farmers.
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disposable income
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spent on luxury goods
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eli whitney
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invented cotton gin
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power loom
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for super speedy weaving
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luddites
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anti-industrialists
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coal
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used to power machinery
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james watt
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improved newcomens work. opened age of steam. engine adapted for textile-mill use and for transportation.
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canals
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narrow strip of water that is used for transportation and shipping
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steamboats
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sped up shipping and lowered costs
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thomas malthus
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thought that population will always outstrip food supply
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bessemer process
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open heart process of making steel
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the rocket
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successful combination of locomotive and steam engine
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samuel f. b. morse
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first sender of message by electric telegraph (inventor)
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Working-class/proletariat
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numerous-factory workers
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middle-class/bourgeuisie
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fadtory owners, managers, technically trained professionals.
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limited liability corporations
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stockholder not liable for entire company
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stocks
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investment in a company
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romanticism
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beauty of nature, importance of human emotions/intuitions that lead to religion
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wordsworth
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romantic writer-turn to love of nature
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JMW Turner
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romantic painter, nature scenes
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Gothic
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midevial architechture
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The Grimm Brothers
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Jakob and Wilhelm-specialists in language and grammar-romantic nationalism
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Louis Pastuer
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France-diseases of some plants/animals are from bacteria
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Charles Darwin
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evolution
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Syllabus of Errors
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error to deny divine origin of church, spiritual side of life, or state that the state is the most important institution. or that other chruches have as much truth as catholic.
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