Industrial Revolution Flashcards

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Thomas Malthus

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Said population will increase faster than the food supply unless famen war or disease.

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Laissez faire

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No government intervention in economics.

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Chartist movement

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Increase labor situation by private voting

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Wealth of nations

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Book written by Adam smith

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Adam Smith

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Wrote about the laissez faire in his book, he was apart of communism

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Karl Marx

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Founder of communism

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Suffrage

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Another word for voting

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Dreyfus Affair

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When a colonel in the French military was blamed for espianoge and was sent to devil’s island.

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Queen Victoria

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She and King Albert requested that the crystal palace to be built.

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Crystal Palace

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Glass and iron structure built in England. Industrialized countries came there to show their country’s new technology. World fair

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Jeremy Bentham

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Founder of utilitarianism

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Utilitarianism

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The greatest good for the greatest number

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Luddites

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Smashed machines because they felt the machines were taking away from their jobs.

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Communist Manifesto

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Book written by Karl Marx

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Enclosure Act

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When big land owners in parliament voted to take away public land and built fences to make the land theirs

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4 causes that brought the industrial revolution in England first.

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  1. Ways to transport like canals and rivers.
  2. Agriculture revolution, move food to feed people.
  3. Natural resources like coal and water.
  4. Increase population means more labor.
    (5. ) stable political situation
    (6. ) a lot of wealth to invest
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Irish Republic Army

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An unofficial nationalist military force seeking independence for Ireland from Great Britain

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Radioactivity

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A form of energy released as atoms decay

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Assembly line

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In a factory, an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in a manufacture.

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John Stuart Mill

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Philosopher and economist, led the utilitarian movement. Believed that it was wrong that workers should lead deprived live that sometimes involved starvation.

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Mass culture

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The production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience.