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| Industry where the Industrial Revolution began |
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| Where workers made cloth before the Industrial Revolurtion |
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| in their own cottages (at home) |
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| Factories were located next to these. |
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| Where workers worked, after the Industrial Revolution began. |
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| Cotton-cleaning machine that dramatically increased cotton production |
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| Weaving machine invented in 1733 that doubled a weaver's daily output |
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| Spinning machine of 1764 named after the inventor's daughter |
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| Scottish engineer who improved the steam engine |
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| This replaced water as the major source of power. |
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| American inventor of the cotton-cleaning machine |
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| Manufacture of standard good in large quantities |
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| Parts that fit any example of a particular product |
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| Englishman who found how to make steel from iron |
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| Material that replaced iron in machines |
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| Material that replaced charcoal for smelting iron |
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| American inventor of the mechanical reaper |
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| Fencing off of formerly common land in England |
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| Inventor of the weaving machine |
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| Inventor of the spinning machine |
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| English engineer who developed the first practical steam engine |
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| English inventor of the water frame for spinning |
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| Weaving machine invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785 |
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| Tyoe of power that replaced wind on ships |
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| American developer of the first successful steamboat |
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| Waterways built to connect cities and rivers |
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| Flat-bottomed boat used on canals |
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| The Industrial Revolution's chief means of land transportation |
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| Morse's system of dots and dashes |
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| American who developed the telegraph |
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| Improved roads developed by the Scot John McAdam |
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| Devices that control the level of water in canals |
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| Fulton's famous steamboat |
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| Invention that sent electrical impulses over wire |
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| Heavily insultated communications wires laid underwater |
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| Improved transportation was necessary to move these items |
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| raw materials and finished goods |
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| Chief means of land transportation before the Industrial Revolution |
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| by horse or cart (over roads) |
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| Steam engines on wheels that ran on rails |
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| New form of personal transportation that first hit the roads in the late 1800s |
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| Steamboat that crossed the Atlantic in 1838 |
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| English engineer who won a locomotive-building contest |
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| Speedy locomotive that started an English railroad-building boom |
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| Italian who built the first electric battery |
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| American responsible for laying the trans-Atlantic cable |
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| Englishman who produced electricity with a magnet |
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| Class that increased and gained political power during the Industrial Revolution |
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| Class created by the Industrial Revolution |
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| the industrial working class (proletariat) |
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| Group of society that had to work along with adults |
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| Centers of population that grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution |
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| Working-class children had no time for either of these two activities. |
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| going to school and playing |
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| Increase in the number of people |
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| Working conditions in factories |
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| noisy, dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable |
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| Workers who were paid lower wages |
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| What the Proletariat had to sell in order to live |
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| Type of worker that decreased |
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| farm workers (self-employed workers) |
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| New groups that ran the factories, neither owners nor laborers |
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| Workers often had to do this to be near the factories. |
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| Type of labor most in demand at factories |
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| Great fear of urban factory workers |
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| Condition of air and water in cities |
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| Social class that lost power as the Industrial Revolution continued |
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| the aristocracy (upper classes) |
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| Cities grew around these. |
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| Average length of the industrial working day |
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| Normal length of the Industrial working week |
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| Buildings that housed many people |
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| People who owned the means of production |
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| Type of labor limited by early reform laws |
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| Workers' associations allowed in England after 1824 |
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| Refusals to work in order to gain demands |
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| Famous English novelist who described the terrible working conditions |
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| New, shorter workday for textile mills |
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| Negotiating by unions and management |
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| Living standards improved when these became available to workers. |
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| chgeap factory (consumer) goods |
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| Social class that supported factory workers against owners |
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| System in which the public owed the means of production |
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| Socialists who designed model communities |
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| Welsh socialist who established a utopian community for his factory workers |
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| Developer of "scientific socialism" |
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| Groups that were in opposition under capitalism, according to Marx |
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| the bourgeoisie (capitalists) vs. the Proletariat (workers) |
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| Economic theory meaning "let do" favored by business owners |
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| Englishman who wrote about increasing population |
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| English businessman who wrote that working class poverty was unavoidable |
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| English philosopher who wrote that a government should promote social welfare |
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| Owen's utopian factory community in Scotland |
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| Marx's study of capitalism |
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