Industrial revolution test vocab Flashcards
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Agrarian
related to farming
enclosure acts
closing the open farming fields
Capital
Wealth
textile
fabric or weaving
colonies
an area that people take control of
raw materials
materials required for a company to run
industrialization
the development of factories in a nation
agricultural society
economy relies on farming
industrial society
economy relies on machinery
rural
country side
Marxism
everyone is equal
reform
changes in order to improve
Glut
When the producer of something cant buy its own product
Laissez Faire economy
minimal government interference
Six acts
to reduce disturbances and to check the extension of radical propaganda and organization
factory acts
a series of acts passed to regular and improve the conditions of industrial employment
right to strike
employees can go on strike to ask for what they want/ deserve
The communist manifesto
creating one class of people so everyone is equal
subsistence farming
farming for the needs of family and maybe your neighbors