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Industrial Rev
18th-20th century
Term | Definition |
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Enclosure Movement | Privatized land with ownership of fewer hands |
Agricultural Revolution | crop rotations, new crops, and inventions |
Population Explosion | more production of food, medical advances (Edward Jenner smallpox vaccine) |
Commercial Revolution | capital for investment, banking systems |
John Kay | flying shuttle weaving 2x faster |
James Hargreaves | spinning jenny 6-8 threads spun |
Richard Arkwright | water frame streams power machines |
Samuel Compton | spinning jenny + water frame |
Edmund Cartwright | power loom |
Eli Whitney | cotton gin |
James Watt | steam engine |
Robert Fulton | steamboat "Clermont" |
Samuel F.B Morse | telegraph and morse code |
Consequences | destruction of env., industrial diseases, urbanization led to crime..., extreme working conditions, iron law of wages (luddites, low wages, no social safety net, destruction of family unit. |