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Industrial Rev
People and Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Agrarian Revolution | Improvements in farming and a cause of the IR |
enclosure | Consolidating small farms into large enclosed farms |
factories | The place where workers and machines are brought together for production |
laissez faire | no gov't interference in the economy |
Adam Smith | Founder of laissez faire economics |
Supply and Demand | The basis for laissez faire economics |
Thomas Malthus | Supported laissez faire economics, he believed the poor should have fewer children to ease population growth and food shortages |
Social Darwinism | Developed the theory of natural selection |
Robert Owen | Set up a Utopian Socialist factory in Scotland |
Socialism | A believed centered around the needs of the group or society as a whole rather than the interests of the individual |
Karl Marx | Wrote the Communist Manifesto and was the Co- founder of Socialism/Communism |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Cottage Industry | how goods were made before the IR |
textiles | clothing industry |
steam engine | spurred a revolution in transportation |
Spinning Jenny | invention that helped mass produce cloth |
Britain | where the IR began |
Population explosion | caused by the Agrarian Revolution |