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Capital
Money used for investment
Entrepenuers
Person who organize and work businesses
Agricultural Revolution
Big improvements of farming techniques, increase in crops, better diets and health
Hydropower
Energy created from flowing water
textile
Cloth
Cottage industry
Terms for production of goods, like cloth, made privately, like by families
spinning jenny
speed up production of cloth, helped factories create textiles
Steam Engine
Created by James Watt, first artificial power created by man
Claremont
Robert Fulton, first steam powered boat, traveled up the Hudson river
Rocket
George Stephenson's , steam powered railroad, won British National competition
Green-wich Mean Time (GMT)
standardized world time, divided globe into 24 time zones
Factory System
new way to produce goods, berid the Cottage Industry. Workers worked in factories using powered machinery
Iron law of wages
expression, by Ricardo, workers governed by law of supply and demand, like a commodity
Great Exhibition
World fair, nations displayed, their latest inventions
Irish Potato Famine
potato crop grew fungus, mass hunger, political instability in Europe
Corn Laws
tariffs passed by British Parliament, places on imported grains to help British farms, But made bread more expensive
Tenement
Overcrowded apartment building, poor city
cholera
bacteria caused by infected water
typhoid
bacteria caused by contaminated water
Tuberculosis
contagious infection, lungs, hit overcrowded cities
Sanitation system
system of pipes, have clean drinkable water
Metropolitan police of London/ Bobbies
Urban police forces, organized by Peel. Improve public safety
Factory Acts
Laws, by British Parliament to improve factory conditions
Mine Acts
Laws by British Parliament, banned women and boys under 10 from mining
Exploitation
treating someone unfairly to benefit from their labor
labor unions
association of workers to protect their rights
Combination Act
Passed by British Parliament, during Napoleonic Wars, forbid workers from unionizing
Stike
A large number of employees refuse to work, to for company to listen to their demands
Luddites
British workers who smashed factory machines to protest
Bourgeoisie
educated middle class "oppressors" of workers
proletartiat
Urban working class of Europe. Marx, "oppressed class"
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