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35 Cards in this Set
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Seed Drills
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Allowed farmers to plant seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths.
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Jenthro Tull
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Invited the SEED DRILL
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Samuel Slater
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Came to America and build the spinning Jenny out of memory.
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Spinning Mule
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Made thread stronger, finer and more consistent.
Spinning Jenny + Water Frame |
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Luddities
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Destroyed machines. Attacked whole factories, destroying labor saving machinery.
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Interchangable Parts
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Being to make a bunch of 1 thing indentical so it can be produced faster.
Allowed UNSKILLED workers. Invited by Eli Whitney |
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Eli Whitney
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Invited INTERCHANGABLE PARTS
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Entrepreneurs
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A person who organizes, manages, and takes RISKS of a business.
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Utilitarianism
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Jeremy Bentham
Only useful if they promote the -greatest good for the greatest # of people- |
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Steam-boat
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Mde water transportation improve
Invited by Robert Fulton |
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Robert Fulton
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Invited The Clermont (steam-boat)
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Power Loom
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Sped up weaving.
Invented by Edmund Cartwright |
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Laissez faire
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"Let do"
The govt should not interfer with the people. |
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Capitalism
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Where factors of production are privately owned.
People compete for consumer's money. Produce best goods for less. COMPETITION |
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Watt Engine
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Made steam engines work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel.
Invented by James Watt |
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James Watt
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Invented the Watt Engine
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Enclosure System/Movement
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Rich people bought land then fenced it off.
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Corporation
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business owned by stock holders. THE LARGE AMOUNTS OF CAPITAL.
(entrepreneurs) |
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Flying Shuttle
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Made weaving faster.
Invented by John Kay |
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John Kay
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Invented the Flying Shuttle
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The Rocket
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Enabled people to transport much more good at one time.
Invented by Stephenson & son |
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Ruhr Valley
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In Germany.
Coal rich. |
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Spinning Jenny
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Allowed one spinner to work eight threads at a time.
Invented by James Hargreaves |
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James Hargreaves
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Invented the Spinning Jenny
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factors of production
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land, labor, & capital
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Lowell Mills
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Mechanized every stage in the manufactoring of cloth. Named a town after him. A model for other towns. Mill GIRLS in factory towns. (highers wages)
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Crop rotation
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Growing different crops in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land.
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Unions
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Bargained for higher wages & went on stirke if they didn't get it.
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Urbanization
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The growth of cities & migration of ppl into them.
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Adam Smith
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Wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'
(INVISIBLE HAND) Social harmony law of self interest, competition, & supply and demand. |
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Thomas Malthus
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Wrote 'The Essay on the Principle of Population"
Argued that population tended to INCREASE more RAPIDLY than the food supply. |
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Socialism
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Govt controls
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Karl Marx
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Wrote 'The Commnunist Manifesto'
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The Commnunist Manifesto
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Marx and Engels.
Argued that societies have always been diveded by warring classes. |
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Cotton Gin
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Removed seeds from the raw cotton quicker.
Invented by Eli Whitney |
