Industrial Revolution Flashcards

1
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Disease that is spread by the contamination of water causing acute intestinal infection

A

Cholera

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2
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Money to invest in business and industry and buy materials and pay labor

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Capital

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3
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Built textile or cloth weaving factories throughout Great Britain, helped to invent the spinning water frame

A

Arkwright

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4
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Founder of the communist economic theory, write of the communist manifesto

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Karl Marx

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5
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Workers were concentrated in the factory to increase production

A

Factory system

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6
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Materials like natural resources with which products are produced

A

Land

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7
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Intellectual revolution that had a particular interest in bettering the lives of people

A

Enlightenment

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8
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Machine revolutionized transportation but powering trains and ships

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Steam engine

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9
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Economic system of free enterprise in which money is invested with the goal of making a profit

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Capitalism

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10
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Invented the cotton gin, a machine that removed the seeds from cotton

A

Whitney

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11
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Improved upon the steam engine

A

Watt

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12
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Land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs

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Four factors of production

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13
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Invented the water powered loom, that could spin/ weave cotton quickly

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Cart weight

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14
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Created multiple new jobs as it expanded, and lowered the price of goods and made for larger markets

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Railroads

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15
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Country where Tj industrial revolution began in the late 1700s

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Great Britain

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16
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The migration of people from the farms to the cities

A

Urbanization

17
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Government should take an active role in the economy and control the major industries to benefit the people

A

Socialist

18
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The process of developing machines production

A

Industrialization

19
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Revolution where food production increased , and farming became more productive

A

Agricultural

20
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Formulated the puddling process, a process that made iron stronger by removing impurities

A

Cort

21
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Government should run the entire economy, with goal of a classless society

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Communism

22
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Revolution that led to innovations on their practical application, especially in the area of chemical development

A

Scientific

23
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Manufacturing was centered in the home

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Cottage lndustry

24
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Government should not interfere in the affairs of business and industry

A

Laissez-faire

25
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The individual who is responsible for combining all of the factors of production together

A

Entrepreneur

26
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Wrote the “wealth of nations” and is the father of capitalism

A

Adam smith

27
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The force that actually creates the products

A

Cabot