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676-702 AP Keyterms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Working on pieces of a product at home and the finalizing and selling them in the marketplace | domestic/putting out system |
| Reorganization in the Ottoman Empire | Tanzimat Reforms |
| Diplomatic jurisdiction, exempted from local jurisdiction | extraterritoriality |
| Canal invested in by the US, located in Panama | Suez Canal |
| The last Chinese dynasty | Qing China |
| The war that led Western imperialism in China | Opium War |
| The trade of illegal narcotics in China | Opium Trade |
| A person in bondage or servitude | serfdom |
| US Commodore who defeated British on Lake Erie | Commodore Perry |
| The triangular slave trade- from Africa to Caribbean and then the Americas | Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade |
| The generating of produce in vast quantities | mass production |
| An evolving concept, which is derived from earlier European economic practices (Feudalism, Imperialism, Mercantilism). It is widely considered to be the dominant economic system in the world. There is continuing debate over the definition, nature, and sco | Capitalism |
| During the Industrial Revolution, it was the consolidation of many small farms into one large farm, which created a labor force as many people lost their homes | Enclosure movement |
| A period of technological change from the 1600s to mid-1900s beginning in Western Europe, beginning with preindustrial improvements like crop rotation and better horse collars, and concluding with industrial innovations to replace human labor with machine | Second Agricultural Revolution |
| this engine is a heat engine that makes use of the thermal energy that exists in steam, converting it to mechanical work. These engines were used in pumps, locomotive trains and steam ships, and was essential to the Industrial Revolution. They are still u | Steam power |
| A multi-spool spinning wheel. It was invented circa 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, near Blackburn, in Lancashire in the north west of England. The device dramatically reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a single worker able to w | Spinning Jenny |
| a value system that stresses the moral value of work, self-discipline, and individual responsibility as the means to improving one's economic well being; important in the industrial revolution because of its stress in hard work, etc | Protestant work ethic |
| Considered the founding father of economics, wrote , published in 1776. His most famous concept was that markets guide economic activity and act like an "invisible hand" - allocating resources through prices, which | Wealth of Nations/Adam Smith |
| This term is short for "laissez-faire, laissez-passer," a French phrase meaning idiomatically "leave to do, leave to pass" or more accurately "let things alone, let them pass". First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against gove | Laissez faire capitalism |
| Process of rendering cast iron malleable by the introduction of air into the fluid metal to remove carbon. This was the first process for mass-producing steel inexpensively | Bessemer Process |
| A system that was a method of manufacturing adopted in England during the Industrial Revolution. Workers would come to work in a city factory, often making low-quality goods in mass amounts. The method prior to the introduction of this system was the dome | Factory system |
| important for the industrial revolution because it signified the ability to change parts of products comparatively easier than before | Interchangeable parts |
| Is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product. | Assembly Line |
| a term often used by historians to describe the dramatic improvement in transportation in the West that took place in the early 1800s. This term included greatly improved roads, the development of canals, and the invention of the steamboat and railroad. S | Transportation revolution |
| new class of factory workers that emerged as a result of the industrial revolution | Proletariat |
| movements that occurred, often, at the end of the industrial revolution, such as the feminist and labor union movements | Reform movements |
| Is a group of workers who act collectively to address common issues; emerged at the end of the IR | Labor unions |
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