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Industrial Revolution
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8th Grade
03/17/2014

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What Caused the Population Soar in the Industrial Revolution?
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new medicine prevented as many deaths, improvements of care with pregnant women decreased miscarages, people just loved eachother, ya know?
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Why Britain??
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Capital, Strong Navy, Security, Railroads, Raw Materials, Colonie$.
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How did Workers Try to Improve the Working and Living Conditions?
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Labor Unions
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New Sources of Energy?
Definition
canals, steam, coal, steel.
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Urbanization
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groups of people migrating to the city
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Communism
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Everyone is equal; there are no social classes, there is no social climbing.
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Socialism
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Government was managed by the people, similar to democracy.
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Tenament
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Places where workers lived
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Laissez Affair
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Government was there to protect the rights of the people only, and should stay out of businesses; Adam Smith.
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Suffrage
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Right to vote in political elections, women's suffrage particularly during the Industrial Revolution.
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Thomas Malthus
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Population; when the means of subsistence increase, as does the population.
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Karl Marx
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Big Daddy Communist
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Robert Owen
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Robert (just call me dreamer) Owen; Utopian society dude.
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Adam Smith
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Liassez Affair man
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Charles Darwin
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Contributions to Evolution Theory.
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James Watt
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Made significant improvements to the steam engine.
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Henry Ford
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Automotives, and most important, the assembly line.
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Dude invented the radio and discovered Radio Waves.
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Louis Pasteur
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Pasteurization and Fermentation
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Alfred Nobel
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Invented Dynamite; my main squeeze.
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Upton Sinclair/Muckraking
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Muckraking, getting dirty to get the details. Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle", portrayed immigrates in the US.
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Flying Shuttle
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allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics
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Spinning Jenny
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Multi Spindle Spinning Frame
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Cotton Gin
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Machine that separates cotton seeds from the cotton quicker and easier.
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Canals
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Carried large and mass productions of goods faster and easier than roads
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Railroads
Definition
carried loads quicker and more efficiently, run by coal and steam.
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Bessemer Process
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mass production of steel
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Electricity
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Faraday discovered electrical current.
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Medical advancements
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Invention of Aspirin, X-rays, small pox vaccine, and anesthetics.
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Hygiene Advancements
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public health act, washing hands before medical procedures, central board of health.
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