Notebook Flashcards

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Disadvantages of traditional farming (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Wasted land(fallow)
Livestock destroyed crops(no fences)
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Farming in the Middle Ages (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Farming villages
Three common fields (bread, livestock food, fallow)
Common pastures

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Life of peasant villages (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Lived subsistence level
Worked long hours
Life revolves around church
Artisans

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Forces for change (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Population growth

Napoleon blockades

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Enclosure movement (agricultural movement)

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Ended common land

Wool became profitable

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Crop rotation (agricultural movement)

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Scientific farming (trial and error)
Less fallow fields
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Other discoveries (agricultural movement)

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Jethro tull’s seed drill (plants seeds)

New world crops: maize and potatoes

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Effects of agricultural revolution (agricultural movement)

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Large-scale land owners/ poor wage laborers
Increased productivity
Healthier diet
Inoculation for small pox
Increased urban population
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Cottage industry and early capitalism (agricultural movement)

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Mercantilism and rising demand
Cottage industry
Capitalism (economic system, competitiveness, less government regulation), Adam smith (father of capitalism)

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Effects of cottage industry (agricultural revolution)

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Out sourced jobs
Merchants received most of the profits
Laborers work from home

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(Textile industry and factory system)

Textile industry invented

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More demand
International market grew and cottage industry couldn’t keep up because they weren’t fast enough and machines wouldn’t fit in homes

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Rise of the factory

Textile industry and factory system

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Constant innovation

Workers organized in factories (output increased)

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Effects of textile factories in Britain (Textile industry and factory system)

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Ended cottage industry

Cotton manufacturing center of the world

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(Steam engine: energy for the industrial revolution)

The need for energy

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Water power replaced

Steam engine technology evolved(James watt)

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How the steam engine works (Steam engine: energy for the industrial revolution)

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Forced steam produces power (coal heats the water)

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Effects of the steam engine (Steam engine: energy for the industrial revolution)

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Revolutionary invention for industry

Factories could be built in more locations (not restricted next to water)

Steam locomotive and improved transportation

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(Iron and coal: energy for the industrial revolution)

The need for iron

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Industrial revolutions increased the demand for iron(strong metal)

Iron smelting changes the flexibility and makes it more durable

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The need for coal (Iron and coal: energy for the industrial revolution)

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Coal was abundant and replaced wood

Needed for iron production

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Alfred Nobel

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Created dynamite

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Samuel slater

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Designed first textile mill

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Alexander graham bell

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Created telegraph with Samuel f.b morse and created telephone

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Alessandro Volta

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Created battery

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Wright brothers

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Created airplane

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Gottlieb Daimler

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Automobile/ engine

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Nikolaus Otto
Engine
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John mcadam
Improved roads with asphalt
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Robert Fulton
Created steam boat
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Duryea brothers
Gas powered automobile
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Isaac singer
Created sewing machine
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Thomas Edison
Created light bulb
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Rufoft diesel
Diesel engine
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Samuel f.b morse
Created telegraph and morse code
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Eli Whitney
Cotton gin
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Richard Arkwright
Spinning mill
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James watt
Steam engine
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Cyrus field
Transatlantic cable
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England
Closer to other countries Majority of female workers were ages 20 and older Technologically advanced Majority of female workers worked in cotton industry Had all Sunday's off
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England and Japan
``` Islands Exchanged ideas Majority of workers were female Worked long hours Short meal breaks Minimum wage and long hours ```
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Japan
Borrowed ideas from England Majority of female workers were ages 15-20 More manual labor Majority of female workers worked in silk industry Less workers and factories One day off every 2 weeks
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Business cycle
Times of prosperity and recession in the economy (look at picture in notebook)