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21 Cards in this Set
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Commercial Revolution
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1500-1700
Revolution in Commerce |
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Protoindustrialism
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Flying shuttle, spinning jenny, etc
Machines get too big for cottage |
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Bubble Act
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respected to allow creation of joint-stock companies
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Lowes Act
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allowed for limited liability for business owners
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James Watt
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1769
First efficient steam engine Chemist, new steam engine Moved condenser to fix it Most fundamental advance in technology Steam power replace water power in mills Radical changes in manufacturing, transport |
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Henry Cort
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Puddling Furnace
pig iron refined with coke 1850 England produced half of world's iron |
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Duke of Bridgewater
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forefront of canal movement
Canals connect other waterways, railroads |
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John McAdam
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hard-surfaced roads
bigger in over-land travel |
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Robert Fulton
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Clermont
2-way river transport possible |
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Proletariat
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New class of factory workers in industrial society
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Frederick Engles
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1820-1895
"Condition of Working Class in England" Blamed middle class for exploiting proletariat Later became revolutionary with Karl Marx |
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Luddites
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Northern England
violent group of angry workers who blamed industrialism for threatening their jobs beginning in 1812 attacked factories and destroyed new machinery they believed was putting them out of work |
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Combination Acts
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1799
prohibited labor unions reaction inspired by fear of something like French Revolution occurring in England ignored by most repealed in 1824, unions became tolerated by 1825 (part of society |
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Robert Owen
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1771-1858
1834: Grand National Consolidated Trades Union Scottish industrialist: firm discipline with real concern for workers conditions made a school for workers children at his own expense |
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The Chartists
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Labor concessions through political democracy
Universal male suffrage |
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Saddler Commission
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Investigated working conditions, helped initiate legislation (by parliament) to improve conditions in factories
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Factory Act
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1833
Limited workday for children 1-13 to 8 hours a day ages 14-18 limited to 12 hours a day Can't hire children under 9 Attend elementary schools factory owners required to establish |
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Credit Moblier
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best example of an Industrial bank
In France |
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Mines Act of 1842
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Prohibited boys and girls under the age of 10 from working underground
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Manchester
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birth of factory towns: cities grew into large industrial centers
largest population growth in human history |
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Irish Potato Famine
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1845-1846 crop failure, again in 1848, 1851
Fever epidemics Food price up, suffereing, social unrest 1.5 million dead/went unborn 1840-1855 2 million left Ireland, went to US, Britain |
