The industrial revolution. Flashcards

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Where and when did the industrial revolution start?

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Great Britain 1750-1850

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When was the second phase of the industrial revolution and where did it spread?

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1850-1940 spread through Europe and USA

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What were some of the changes the industrial revolution brought?

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Travel moved to train and steamship
Messages could move through the telegraph
Anesthetic used by dentists
Sewing machine
antiseptic

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4
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What happened before the industrial revolution?

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The agricultural revolution.

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5
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How did farming improve during the agricultural revolution?

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Dikes
Crop rotation
Equipment
Enclosure

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6
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Abraham Darby

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Used coal to smelt Iron

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7
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Smelt definition

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Separate iron from its ore

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8
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Thomas Newcomen

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Developed steam engine

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9
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James Watt

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Improved steam engine and patent it

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Why did Britain start the industrial revolution?

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Natural recourses
labor
capital
entrepeunuers.

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11
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What is capital

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Money used to invest in enterprices

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12
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Henry Ford

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First affordable car

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13
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Louis Pasteur

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Showed link between microbes and disease

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14
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Alexander Graham Bell

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Patent for telephone

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15
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John Dalton

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Developed modern atomic theory

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Charles Lyell

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Wrote book principals of geology, showed proof that earth evolved over millions of years

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Charles Darwin

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Wrote book On the Origin of Species, argued that all species evolved.

18
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Why did Charles Darwin’s ideas cause controversy?

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They angered Christians

19
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Why was the population increasing in the 19th century despite the decreasing birth rate.

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There was a longer life expectancy and a lower death rate.

20
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How did capital help buisneses?

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It allowed them to grow by giving them money.

21
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What were the positive and negative results of Marxism?

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Most people would be equal, everyone would make the same, end of poverty. There would be small elite force in total control.

22
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What were the ideas in Marx’s Communist Mainifesto?

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Communism would make a classless society.

23
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What was laissez-faire veiw?

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The idea that the governmetn should not interfere.

24
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Where were three main laissez-fair view thinkers?

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Adam Smith, Thomas Mathus, David Ricardo.

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What were two major inventions that helped travel?
Steam engines, steam trains.
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What were two production improvements?
The putting-out system, and technology speed production
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Why was Britain the first to industrialize?
Natural recourses, labor, capital, entrepreneurship.
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What sources of energy helped trigger industrialization?
Water wells and coal
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What agricultural changes helped trigger the industrialization?
Crop rotation and better equipment.
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Why was there a population boom in the mid 1700s?
Less deaths more births.
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Cartel
An association to fix prices
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Germ theory
The idea that disease is caused by microbes
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Assembly line
Work stations - speed production
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Interchangeable parts
Using identical components in place of one another in manufacturing
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Communism
A system in which the government is in total controll
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Utilitarianism
The modifying of Laiseez Fair ideas - includes some governmentnt intervention
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Labor unions
Fight for workers rights
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Samuel FB Morse
Invented telegraph