Industrial Revolution - no labor reforms/economic systems

Who made the seed drill?

Jethro Tull

Who improved crop rotation?

Charles Townshend (crop rotation called the Turnip Townshend)

Who popularized selective breeding?

Robert Bakewell

What are the 3 factors of production?

LLC

* Land
* Labor
* Capital

Why did the population boom in 1750-1850?

Improved farming, smallpox vaccine, and luck

What was the first industry to boom in England?

Textiles

Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

Hargreaves

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

First factory owner/millionaire, found a way to run the Spinning Jenny with water, used a lot of child labor:

Arkwright

There was a transition from the domestic system to what system?

The Factory System

Domestic system (cottage industry)

Workers did the entire job at home and got payed per thing made

Factory system

Workers worked on an assembly line in a factory and got paid per hour worked

What kind of workers did most factory owners want?

* Young, unskilled workers with no hobbies
* Women and Children (owners could get away with paying them less for the same amount of work)

What were wages based on?

Supply and Demand

What were the conditions in factories like?

Bad; unsanitary, no safety regulations, and little to no sunlight with 10-14 hour work days, 6 days a week

Who improved the steam engine?

James Watt

Who improved iron and steel production?

Henry Bessemer

Who discovered vulcanization (makes rubber less sticky)?

Charles Goodyear

Who invented germ theory and pasteurization?

Louis Pasteur

Who invented the steamboat?

Robert Fulton

What is the enclosure act?

Common land taken away

What starts the industrial revolution?

The enclosure act

Factory Act of 1833

improved conditions for children and shortened working day

Robert Owen

Founding thinker of Utopian Socialism

Frederic Engels

Helped out Karl Marx (good friend)

Catholic Emancipation Act

Catholics can serve in parliament

Reform Bill of 1832

reorganizes voting districts, expands voting rights (\~10% of population can vote)

Factory Act of 1833

 improves factory conditions

Chartist Movement

workers want more rights

Reform Bill of 1867

continues to expand suffrage

William Wilberforce

Abolitionist