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Industrial Revolution

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Zollverein   a customs union among the separate German states to allow goods to move between these states without tariffs; supported by German journalist Friedrich List  
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"petite bourgeoisie"   small industrialists, merchants, and professional men who demanded stability and security from the government  
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proletariat   factory workers emerged as a new group in society and the fastest-growing social class  
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Friedrich Engels   middle class German, author of The Conditions of the Working Class in England, accusing the English middle classes and industrial capitalism as a whole of creating more poverty and murdering the working class  
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Poorhouses   people who didn't have jobs or couldn't provide for themselves, went to these places;conditions were often intentionally oppressive  
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power loom   a mechanised loom powered by a line shaft. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785.  
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heavy industry   an industry engaged in the large-scale complex manufacture of capital goods or extraction of raw materials  
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Henry Cort   was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron (or bar iron) using innovative production systems. In 1783 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore  
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puddling furnace   a small reverberatory furnace in which iron is puddled  
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transportation revolution   a technological advance in the transportation system. It gave a new way for all new technological advances such as in farming and industry.  
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canals   an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.  
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water frame   Invented by richard Arkwright, a mill that ran off the power of streams and rivers  
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spinning mule   Invented by Samuel Crompton, combined the features of the spinning jenny and water frame  
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Agricultural Revolution   a period of transition into a more advanced and productive form of agriculture  
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Bank of England   Britain's effective central bank with issued uniform bank notes  
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Bubble Act   a act that allowed the creation of joint stock campaigns leading to monopolization  
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John McAdam, hard-surfaced roads   Equipped road beds with a layer of large stones for drainage. On top he placed a carefully smoothed layer of crushed rock.  
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Robert Fulton, steamboat   invented the first steamboat  
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George Stephenson, Rocket   Brit who built the first successful steam locomotive.  
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Crystal Palace   A cast-iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.  
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Credit Mobilier   A joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.  
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Luddites   a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their job.  
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Combination Acts   An Act to prevent unlawful combinations of workman, prohibited trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers.  
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Robert Owen   A social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.  
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Chartists   A person who uses charts of financial data to predict future trends and to guide investment strategies.  
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Sadler Committee   They investigated working conditions helped initiate legislation to improve conditions in factories.  
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Factory Act of 1833   outlawed the employment of children under the age of nine in the textile mills; it also limited the workdays for those aged thirteen to eighteen to twelve hours • prohibits kids and women from working underground • first child labor law  
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Mines Act of 1842   1842 British law that eliminated the employment of children under 10 and all women in mines.  
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Poor Law of 1834   required all able-bodied persons be housed together in workhouses but families were separated.Workhouse life was unpleasant so poor people would move on to regions of higher employment, workhouse system,hoped people would move to work  
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Manchester   A city in northwestern England.The Manchester Ship Canal (completed in 1894) affords access for oceangoing vessels.It was an important textile center from the mid-1800s until the 1930s.  
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Irish Potato Famine   1845-1850 potato blight in Ireland which killed over 1 million and forced another 2 million to emigrate  
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Lowes Act   Allowed for limited liability for business owners  
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Navigation Acts   Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.  
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Corn Laws   Revised in 1815 these laws didn't allow for importing of cheap grain, this gave way to great anger towards the landed aristocracy who imposed them for their own good. Their repeal signified the end of dominance by the landed nobility  
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James Watt   Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)  
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Steam engine   1760's; James Watt; engine powered by steam that could pump water from mines 3X as quickly as previous engines  
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Commercial Revolution   a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the 13th century until the early 18th century.  
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Proto-industrialization   possible phase in the development of modern industrial economies that preceded, and created conditions for, the establishment of fully industrial societies.  
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Cottage Industry   Merchant-capitalists provided raw materials to rural families who produced finished or semi-finished products and sent it back to he merchants for payments  
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Flying shuttle   the key developments in the industrialization of weaving. It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms. It was patented by John Kay (1704–c. 1779) in 1733.  
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Spinning Jenny   a machine for spinning with more than one spindle at a time, patented by James Hargreaves in 1770.  
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