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Why was World War One called "the war to end all wars"?

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The change from handmade goods to machine made goods

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England
It had the necessary Factors of Production
Plus the Enclosure Movement

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Land
Natural Resources like coal, iron, and rivers
Labor
More People
because of more food
from new techniques (crop rotation and selective breeding) and the Enclosure Movement
Capital (Money)
England had its revolution early
While other countries were having revolutions, England had a stable government and growing economy

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Wealthy farmers bought out smaller farms

More Food

More People
More people available for jobs
Population shift to industrial centers

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Textiles
Flying Shuttle by John Kay
Spinning Jenny by Hargreaves
Water Frame by Arkwright

Steam Engine
Improved by Watt
Used in factories, steam boats, and trains

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Urbanization – Rapid growth of cities

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Increased Standard of Living

Enclosure Movement = More Food
Cheaper Goods
Variety of Goods
Better Quality of Goods

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Bad
No sanitation codes
Sewage in the streets
Small houses/ narrow streets
Air Pollution

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Bad
No employment laws
Start work at a very young age
Deformities and Injuries
Long hours/ little pay
Beaten if late

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Bad living conditions
Bad working conditions

Social Inequality

Gap between rich and poor
Global Inequality
Industrial Countries got rich, and the rest were colonized

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Capitalists

Adam Smith
-Wealth of Nations
+Self- Interest (encourages entrepreneurship)
+Competition determines best product
+Supply and Demand
-Laissez Faire (hands off, no government interference)
Malthus
-Principle of Population
-Populations grow faster than resources
-Regulate poor population
-Laissez Faire
Ricardo
-Principle of Taxation
-The more people there are, the lower the wages
-The poor will stay poor
-Regulate poor population
-Laissez Faire

Capitalism -
-Factors of Production are privately owned

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Utopia

Robert Owen
Factory owner
Made working conditions better (age limit, schooling)

Utilitarianism

Bentham and Mill
Government actions should benefit the majority

Socialism

Fourier and St. Simon
Escalated Utilitarianism
Factors of Production owned by state to improve lives of the majority

Marxism / Communism
-Engels and Marx
-Wrote Communist Manifesto
+Factors of Production owned by people, shared equally
+Class Struggle
+Haves (bourgeoisie) and have-not’s (Proletariats)
+Capitalism exacerbates rich/poor gap and will eventually fail
+Capitalism takes advantage of human labor
+Led to revolutions in Cuba, Russia, and China

Other Reformers
   -Jane Addams
     \+hull settlement house for immigrants
   -William Wilberforce
     \+Abolish slavery in England
   -Horace Mann
     \+Education in the US

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A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially

Ethnocentrism (similar to racism)
Technology
   -Steam Power
   -Guns
   -Railroads
   -Protection against Malaria

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Scramble for Africa-
Complete colonization of Africa (except for Ethiopia and Liberia)
European countries were disputing over what land was their’s
Berlin Conference-
Organized and allotted African land

Africans lost land, independence, and culture
Disease
Switch to cash crops = famine
Creation of Artificial Boundaries

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“Manifest Destiny”-
-It was the right and duty of the United States to rule all of North America

Evident through annexing, receiving, winning, and purchasing land.

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Study These Flashcards

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Indian Removal Act of 1830
Monroe Doctrine- Monroe and Roosevelt
   -Europe may not colonize America
   -If they do, it is a national threat
   -Enforces Washington's Rule of Foreign Policy