Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Disease that is spread by the contamination of water causing acute intestinal infection
Cholera
Money to invest in business and industry and buy materials and pay labor
Capital
Built textile or cloth weaving factories throughout Great Britain, helped to invent the spinning water frame
Arkwright
Founder of the communist economic theory, write of the communist manifesto
Karl Marx
Workers were concentrated in the factory to increase production
Factory system
Materials like natural resources with which products are produced
Land
Intellectual revolution that had a particular interest in bettering the lives of people
Enlightenment
Machine revolutionized transportation but powering trains and ships
Steam engine
Economic system of free enterprise in which money is invested with the goal of making a profit
Capitalism
Invented the cotton gin, a machine that removed the seeds from cotton
Whitney
Improved upon the steam engine
Watt
Land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs
Four factors of production
Invented the water powered loom, that could spin/ weave cotton quickly
Cart weight
Created multiple new jobs as it expanded, and lowered the price of goods and made for larger markets
Railroads
Country where Tj industrial revolution began in the late 1700s
Great Britain