idustrial revolution Flashcards

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enclosure movement

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an area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.

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crop rotation

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the action of rotating around an axis or center.

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industrial revolution

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The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people’s way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, the people of England began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines.

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Factors of production

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Factors of production is an economic term that describes the inputs that are used in the production of goods or services in order to make an economic profit. The factors of production include land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship.

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mechanization

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Mechanization or mechanisation (British English) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery. In an early engineering text a machine is defined as follows: … In some fields, mechanization includes the use of hand tools.

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Factory system

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Definition of factory system. : the system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century with the development of the power loom and the steam engine and is based on concentration of industry into large establishments —contrasted with domestic system.

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Cottage industry

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a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person’s home.

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enterpreneur

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a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

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tenements

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a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
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a piece of land held by an owner.

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Mass production

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Mass production is the manufacture of large quantities of standardized products, frequently utilizing assembly line technology. Mass production refers to the process of creating large numbers of similar products efficiently.

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Fordism

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Fordism is a term widely used to describe (1) the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism

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corporation

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a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

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Monopoly

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the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

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Strikes

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hit forcibly and deliberately with one’s hand or a weapon or other implement.

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union

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the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political context.

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collective

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done by people acting as a group.

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bargainng

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negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.

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Eli whitney

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Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

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james Watt

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The watt (symbol: W) is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units (SI), named after the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736–1819). The unit is defined as 1 joule per second and can be used to express the rate of energy conversion or transfer with respect to time.

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Henry Bessemer

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Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. He also established the town of Sheffield as a major industrial centre.

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Richard Arkwright

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Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 in Preston – 3 August 1792 in Cromford) was an inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution

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Robert Fulton

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Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Claremont.

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Samuel morse

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

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Henry ford

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

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Jp morgan

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John Pierpont “J. P.” Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in late 19th and early 20th Century United States.

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immigration

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the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

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Leisure

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free time

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emigration

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the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

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push and pull factors

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Definition. Push and pull factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them. A push factor is forceful, and a factor which relates to the country from which a person migrates. It is generally some problem which results in people wanting to migrate.

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textile

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type of cloth or woven fabric.

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middle class

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the social group between the upper and working classes, including professional and business workers and their families.

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Jane addam

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Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women’s suffrage and world peace.

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child labor

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the use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane.

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stuart mill

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A utilitarian philosophy is used when making social, economic or political decisions for the “betterment of society”. … The philosophy of utilitarianism was first proposed and discussed by John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham in the mid-1800s

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utilitarianism

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the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
the doctrine that an action is right insofar as it promotes happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the guiding principle of conduct.