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| shift to large factories, mass production, large markets. |
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| new inventions enabled weavers to double their output. These new machines had to be located next to rivers so there were mill villages. |
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| helped open up new markets, but were quickly overtaken by railroads. |
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| Richard Arkwright and James Hargreaves |
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| Richard Arkwright – water frame; Hargreaves – spinning jenny |
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| Samuel Compton and Edmund Cartwright |
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| invented the “mule” >> advanced spinning. |
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| they kind of went out of business because they started bringing people to the factories. |
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| needed to power the steam engine. |
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coke is a type of coal after it has undergone
“destructive distillation” – used to make iron, a better quality iron. |
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| James Watt and the rotary engine |
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| rotary engine (developed by Watt) could operate machinery. Tireless source of power. |
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| british colony, really cheap labor. |
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| created a new way to smelt iron, making it higher quality. |
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| George Stephenson's Rocket |
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| first train on a public railway line, 16mph. |
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| demand for coal and iron furthered those industries, new investment opportunities, new jobs, new markets, reduced the price of goods. |
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| wage system, more discipline, working hours >> shift in lifestyle. |
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| industrial factory habits were incorporated into religion, like to follow a disciplined path. |
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| GB organizes the world’s first industrial fair. |
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| a palace made out of glass containing 100,000 exhibits. It had trees inside showing how man’s domination of nature. |
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| Napoleon's continental system |
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| attempted to prevent british goods from reaching the European continent, which ruined some previously successful ports. |
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| german writer who emigrated to America and returned to germany as the US consul. National system of political economy” he promoted industrialization as the surest way to develop a nation’s strength. |
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| Credit Mobilier and Banque de Belgique |
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| French and Belgian joint stock investment banks. These banks made it easier to invest. |
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| a british person who brings british secrets of the textile industry to the US. |
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| interchangeable parts, makes mass production easier. |
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| facilitated transportation in the US, b/c it was so big. |
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| in the summer of 1845 potato blight starves everyone. Lots of people die. The Irish are really pissed because the british had surplus food that they could have given to the Irish/... |
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| became a staple for the irish poor. |
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| people leave the rural areas and got o the cities. Suburbs became possible b/c of public transportation. |
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| these investigators were struck by the poor conditions in cities. |
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| the meaning of this word changed, and came to mean people involved in commerce, industry, and banking. |
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| bankers (example of a family belonging to a religious minority that’s very powerful) |
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| bad environmental conditions in the factories. >> environmental damage (visible) done by factories. |
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| children were regarded as adults who helped support the family. |
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| gave more power to the workers. |
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| proponent of national unions |
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| Grand National Consolidated Trades Union |
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| a really big union, tried to fight for the eight hour work day. |
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| people living in the mountains who destroyed machines to try and stop the industrial revolution. |
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| limited the number of working hours. |
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| its aim was to achieve political democracy. “peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must” |
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| 1833 >> reform, child labor laws and suck |
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