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Industrial Rev.
Vocabulary GCA WHII
Term | Definition | Time Period |
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Industrial Revolution | time period of new inventions; the increase of industry, and emergence of new economic ideas | Industrial Revolution |
Agriculture Revolution | The beginning of the Industrial Rev. Creating higher yields of food, crop rotation and the enclosure movement also improved living conditions | Industrial Revolution |
Enclosure Movement | When wealthy land owners fenced small fields forcing poorer farmers off their land | Industrial Revolution |
England | Where the Industrial Rev. Began | Industrial Revolution |
Textile Industry | The Factory System that causes the decline of family cottage businesses | Industrial Revolution |
cotton gin | Created by Eli Whitney | Industrial Revolution |
spinning Jenny | Created by James Hargreaves | Industrial Revolution |
Steam Engine | Created by James watt | Industrial Revolution |
James Hargreaves | Created the Spinning Jenny | Industrial Revolution |
Richard Arkwright | Created the Water Frame | Industrial Revolution |
James Watt | Created the Steam Engine | Industrial Revolution |
Edmund Cartwright | Created the Power Loom | Industrial Revolution |
Eli Whitney | Created the Cotton Gin | Industrial Revolution |
Henry Bessemer | Invented the process for making steel | Industrial Revolution |
John McAdam | Invented Roadbeds | Industrial Revolution |
Edward Jenner | invented the Smallpox Vaccine | Industrial Revolution |
Louis Pasteur | Discovered Bacteria | Industrial Revolution |
urbanization | Movement of people from rural areas into cities | Industrial Revolution |
tenement housing | Narrow, low rise apartment buildings with very poor conditions in the poor parts of town | Industrial Revolution |
impact on slavery | The Cotton Gin created a Higher Demand for slavery | Industrial Revolution |
suffrage | Women's Right to Vote | Industrial Revolution |
organized labor | When workers organized labor unions | Industrial Revolution |
labor unions | organizations that fought for improved working conditions and worker's rights | Industrial Revolution |
strikes | worker organized pickets for better wages and conditions | Industrial Revolution |
lobby | when someone represents a group of people and fights for their rights | Industrial Revolution |
collective bargaining | negotiations between labor workers and management | Industrial Revolution |
child labor | filled unfilled positions, but was dangerous, had long hours and did not pay well | Industrial Revolution |
immigration | new opportunities for immigrants, but had a hard life with great competition | Industrial Revolution |
environmental pollution | Mass production would cause toxic gases, and air and water pollution | Industrial Revolution |
women’s rights | Suffrage: horrible working conditions | Industrial Revolution |
capitalism | when someone invest in a private business with the goal of making a profit | Industrial Revolution |
entrepreneurial | Investing Money and taking financial risks | Industrial Revolution |
Adam Smith | "the father of modern economics"; encourage the use of laissez faire and capitalism | Industrial Revolution |
The Wealth of Nations | written by adam smith | Industrial Revolution |
laissez faire | "Let it alone" - government should have limited role in economy | Industrial Revolution |
economics | The production, distribution and consumption of goods | Industrial Revolution |
free-trade | government is not control of foreign trade | Industrial Revolution |
socialism | The equal redistribution of wealth | Industrial Revolution |
Karl Marx | Wrote the Communist Manifesto; founder of communism | Industrial Revolution |
Friedrich Engels | Also wrote the Communist Manifesto with Marx | Industrial Revolution |
The Communist Manifesto | written by Marx and Engels saying that capitalist made their money by exploiting industrial labor | Industrial Revolution |
bourgeoisie | Capitalsits...according to Marx | Industrial Revolution |
proletariat | the working-class...according to Marx | Industrial Revolution |
Communism | economy that is a completed form of socialism | Industrial Revolution |
Marxism | a form of Communism specifically following Marx's ideas | Industrial Revolution |
imperialism | the colonization of countries in search of natural resources for the growing industrial revolution | Industrial Revolution |
Social Darwinism | the need to "civilize" native people by teaching them european culture | Industrial Revolution |
colonies | the physical subsidiary of a country | Industrial Revolution |
protectorates | military controlled offshoot of the mother country | Industrial Revolution |
spheres of influence | an area of a country in which another country has control or influence | Industrial Revolution |
Suez Canal | canal in Egypt; faster route to Asia through the Mediterranean than around Africa | Industrial Revolution |
Berlin Conference | the divide of Africa between 14 different countries with little concern for ethnic or tribal groups | Industrial Revolution |
East India Company | joint stock company that controlled and dominated India | Industrial Revolution |
Open Door Policy | The US convinced China to trade with anybody | Industrial Revolution |
Boxer Rebellion | Rebellion in china that opposed foreign imperialism and christianity | Industrial Revolution |
Matthew Perry | commodore tha came to Japan with gunboats and established a trade agreement between Jaan and the US | Industrial Revolution |