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-Shift from muscle power to machine power, began in England in the mid 1700's
-cotton textile industry was #1 |
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-invented the cotton spinning jenny around 1765
-increased amount of cotton thread |
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| invented water frame for spinning cotton thread in 1765 |
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| Invented the spinning mule. made a strong, fine, even thread. |
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| invented the power loom around 1785. wasn't good enough to replace weavers until around 1800 |
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-Scottish professor who worked many years to improve the steam engine.
-made it usable by late 1780's |
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-developed puddling furnace (1780's)
-turned pig iron into coke
-also developed rolling mills
-iron became cheap, basic building block for the 1800's |
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-industrial fair held in London in 1851 in the Crystal Palace.
-proved Britain was the "workshop of the world" |
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-economist who wrote Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
- he said the population would always grow faster than the food supply |
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-English economist who put forth the "iron law of wages"
-population increase would keep wages at the subsistence level. |
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| limited the use of child labor in England |
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-Scottish manufacturer who worked to help stop child labor
-later set up utopian socialist communities, including one in New Harmony, Indiana.
-tried to set up national union in Britain |
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-the British workers movement of the mid 1800's that demanded
·the vote for all men
·a 10-hour work day
-cheap bread |
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-Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain
-United to defeat Napoleon
-after victory, met in Vienna to plan peace settlement |
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-peace settlement between France and the Quadruple Alliance that ended Napoleonic Wars
-reestablished traditional conservative governments in europe. |
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- meetings of all the European powers in 1814-1815
- purpose was to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon and to plan for peace
-conservative
-led by Metternich of Austria |
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