Industrial Revolution Ch.10 and 11 Flashcards
What are the reasons for industrial revolution???
- Agricultural revolution
- Baby boom
- Strong economy
- Great demand
- Natural resources
Where did the industrial revolution start???
England
Enclosure
The process of taking over and fencing off land formally owned by peasants
Socialism
When people as a whole, rather than a private individuals would own a business
Urbanization
The movement of people to the cities
Tenements
Multistory buildings divided into small apartments with no running water, sewage system, waste and garbage rotted in the streets, disease spread easily
Labor unions
An organization of workers who band together to achieve common goals
Strikes
When all the work stops because of mass refusal of the employees to preform work
Entrepreneurs
a person who finds new business opportunities and new ways to make a profit
The new middle Class
the people who invented new machines, created factories, and lived in nice houses
Factory conditions
Long work days Women workers Child labor Lung damage Chopped off Limbs
New inventions that helped the industrial-agricultural revolution??
- dikes
- fertilizer
- crop rotation
- seed drill
- enclosures
New inventions that helped the textile improvements???
- flying shuttles
- spinning Jenny
- water frame
- steam powered loom
What did Thomas Malthus say about fixing poverty???
- have less children
What did Jeremy Bentham say about fixing poverty???
The goal of society should be the greatest amount of happiness for the most citizens and to fix poverty all laws should be judged if they provide happiness or pain to society
