Chapter 20 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Movement of people to cities
Urbanization
Process of taking over and fencing off land formerly shared by peasant owners
Enclosure
Places where people worked to make goods
Factories
Reform that ended poverty and equality
Socialism
Belief that society should try to make people happy
Utilitarianism
Invented a steamboat which went 5mph
Robert Fulton
Founder of Methodism
John Wesley
Father of communism
Karl Marx
Invented the seed drill
Jethro tull
Free market would help everyone
Adam smith
Factory with decent living conditions could still make a profit
Robert Owen
Urged farmers to grow turnips
Charles Townsend
Used coal to melt iron
Abrham Darby
Engineer who improved on newcomens engine
James watt
Three factors that played a role in the agricultural revolution in Britain in the 1700s
Enclosure, fertilizing soil, crop rotation, mechanical devices
Four causes of the industrial revolution in England
Resources, technology, economic conditions, political and social conditions
Three reasons why factory owners preferred women and child workers over men
Paid less, adapt easier, more nimble
Important source of power during the industrial revolution
Capital and demand
Why was coal important
Powered steam engines
What helped farmers increase food production in the 1700s
Crop rotation
Describe factory life for women
Paid less
What was Karl Marx’s ideas and how did the conditions of the industrial revolution support his ideas
The proletariat would triumph over the burgousisie. The middle class benefited from industrial revolution
How did wealthy landowners increase food production during the agricultural revolution
Combined farms which meant less workers and more food production
What did industrialization in the textile industry lead to
New inventions
