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Industrial Rev
Question | Answer |
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Why did the industrial revolution start in great britan | Because britan had lots of materials and minerals to make machines |
What century was the industrial rev | 18th century |
What was the first industry to be affected by the industrial revolution | Textiles |
What was the enclosure movement | A movement where public space could be sold off to farmers for farmland |
What was the agricultural revolution | A time period that increased crop productivity in the late 18th early 19th century |
What caused the population increase in the 1700s | Because death rate began to fall with germ theory |
Henry bessmer | Steelmaker whos steelmaking techniche revolutionized the way to make steel. Called the |
Major changes in the textile industry, transportation, building materials, farming, production | Textile: Spinning Jenny Transport: Steam engine Building mats: Steel Farming- Seed drill Production- Factories |
Domestic System | Merchants would put out materials for workers who wanted to work. |
Domestic system vs the factory system- how did new inventions serve as a catalyst for the dominance of factories? | Because machines were so much more efficient and couldn't be found at home. |
Who predominantly worked in factories? | Children and lower/ working class adults |
What were the conditions for factory workers? | Very poor. Worked 14 hours a day 6 days a week in hot sweaty factories |
Positive and negatives of urbanization | Positive- Education, and economic development Negative - Places stress on existing infrastructure |
Capitalism | Free market - The government doesn't control the economy much and lets it do what it wants |
Socialism | The economy should be 100 percent regulated by the government and the community as a whole |
Adam Smith | Loved capitalism- big fan |
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels | Big fans on socialism |
Marx’s vision for the proletariat | Economic wealth shared by all |
According to Marx, what has been the source of all conflict in human history? What was his proposed solution? | Exploitation of one class or another |
Labor unions | Make decisions affecting the conditions of their work |
How did the Industrial Revolution create more rigid gender roles? | Women would earn less than men, they would come home and housewife, they would have worse education |
standard of living | Wealth, comfort, necessities, ect |