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Ch. 25 Western Civ
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History
9th Grade
05/11/2011

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Industrial Revolution
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Transformation in the modes of production and distribution of goods as well as in the relationship between workers/work and owners/managers/workers.
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Industrial Revolution started in...
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England, then spread to Germany and the US
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Cottage Industry
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Outbuilding near their main house, small scale, handmade goods, and close ties with workers, replaced with factories
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Factories
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large, and in cities, tedious work, no personal ties, low product quality, established on water
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Eerie Canal
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an extra source of transportation, increases the speed and decreases the cost of shipment
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Proletariat
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working class
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Technologically Obsolescent
Definition
something that has been replaced with technology or a machine
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The Social Question
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an umbrella term that describes a while series of growing questions generated by the Industrial Rev.
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Problems
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healthcare, reform, socialism, communism, capital
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Health
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cholera, consumption of alcohol or cider
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Capital
Definition
financial and intellectual
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Natural Resources
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water, timber, iron, coal (power), copper (electricity), known as raw materials
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Transportation/Infrastructure Network
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bridges, canals, ports, tunnels, etc.
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Vertical Integration
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non-monopoly, you buy out EVERYTHING to eliminate the middle man
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Intellectual/Financial Capital
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you need a location that is somewhat politically stable, secure and has law and order
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Benefits of Industrialization
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higher wages, technology, education
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Costs
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worker alienation, worker health/injuries, increasing disparities of wealth, pollution, urbanization, child labor, technological unemployment
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Worker alienation
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in factories, this is what happens when owners aren't close to their workers anymore
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Worker Health/injuries
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bodily injuries, black lung, child labor
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Increasing Disparities of Wealth
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Downside of Rapid Urbanization
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crime, pollution, disease, immoral behavior
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Class Tensions, Class Mentality
Definition
proletariat feel that they are doing al the work, and getting the least out of it, strikes
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Pollution
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Fibrosis, workplace and general pollution
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Technological Unemployment
Definition
when people loose their jobs due to the fact that they are replaced by machines
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Britain against US in War of 1812
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they set up a blockade, forcing US to make and produce their own goods
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Lowell
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established first large factory system- in mass. became a booming center for manufacturing
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Horizontal Integration
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Monopoly, buying out your competitors
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Transportation
Definition
railroads and waterways
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Stock
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entrepreneurs sold these to raise money
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Corporation
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men with supplemental income pooled their money, limited liability
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British Miracle
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result of Britain's profitable new methods of manufacturing goods
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leading nations of industrialization
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England, Germany, France, and Belgium
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Imperialism
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one country's rule over many others, came out of industrialization, opposed to colonization
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Laissez Faire
Definition
the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference
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French Economic Philosophers of the Enlightenment
Definition
they criticized that idea that nations grow wealthy by placing heavy tariffs , free trade
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Adam Smith
Definition
professor in scotland, defended free economy, wrote Wealth of Nations, self interest, competition, supply and demand
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Capitalism
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factories of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make profit
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Slater
Definition
Went to England, took photographs with his mind of textiles mills, brought it back
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David Ricardo
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stockbroker, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, permanent underclass
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Utilitariansim
Definition
people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their usefulness
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Socialism
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in this, the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the well fare of all
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Karl Marx
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had ideas, and made up the outline for the Communist Manifesto
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Communism
Definition
a form of complete socialism in which the means of production
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Factory act of 1819
Definition
the first piece of reform to be passed for the government
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Open Shops
Definition
you don't have to be in a union, as opposed to closed
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Urbanization
Definition
people live near where work is, so more people people come to where factories are, leads to big cities
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