industrial revolution (1750-1850)

Question 1

eurocentrism

Answer 1

superiority; europe is better

Question 2

utopia

Answer 2

place that doesn’t exist; “perfect world”

Question 3

capital

Answer 3

the money, property, or resources that a person/group owns

Question 4

sordid boon

Answer 4

• bad blessing
• sordid = the exploitation, pollution
• boon = money, product

Question 5

scavenger

Answer 5

kids who found cloth under the machines

Question 6

textiles

Answer 6

piece of cloth or fabric

Question 7

reformer

Answer 7

a person who makes change to something in order to improve it

Question 8

industrialized

Answer 8

when a country has machines and factories to manufacture goods

Question 9

guilds

Answer 9

any group of people joined together in some type of work or for someone else

Question 10

colonialism

Answer 10

acquiring full or partial control over a place, occupying it, and exploiting it economically

Question 11

disparity

Answer 11

a great difference

Question 12

thomas more

Answer 12

author of Utopia, 1516

Question 13

thomas newcommen

Answer 13

inventor of the original steam engine for pumping water, 1712

Question 14

james watt

Answer 14

inventor of improved steam engine, 1769

Question 15

robert owen

Answer 15

• reformer; “new harmony” in indiana, 1824

- did not exploit factory workers

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william wordsworth

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• romantic poet

Question 17

luddites

Answer 17

• no technology

- destroyed machines

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factory act of 1850

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• law that parliament passed in 1850 after they commissioned doctors and other professionals to investigate the conditions that the factory workers experienced
• minimum wage
• kids only work a certain number of hours

Question 19

enclosure movement

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when english farmers enclosed lands for the benefit of the wealthy land owners

Question 20

underlying cause

Answer 20

capitalism

Question 21

conditions

Answer 21

enclosure movement

Question 22

immediate results

Answer 22

child labor laws

Question 23

bottom line changes

Answer 23

factories

Question 24

far reaching outcomes

Answer 24

education