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Western Civilization
Chapter 21
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History
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2007

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enclosure
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closing of land for cultivation where commoners let their animals graze
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John Kay
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invented flying shuttle
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flying shuttle
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allowed weavers to double their output
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James Hargreaves
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invented spinning jenny
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spinning jenny
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allowed an operator to work several spindles at once
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Richard Arkwright
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invented water-framed spinning machine
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Samuel Crompton's
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invented spinning mule
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Edmund Cartwright
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invented power loom
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James Watt
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steam engine
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Henry Cort
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copied the French practice of using a furnace with two separate compartments
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Henry Bessemer
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converted pig iron to steel by removing impurities in the iron
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Williams Siemens
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developed the open-heart process
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Abraham Darby
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built a blast furnance for casting iron
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domestic system
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middleman supplies materials to a worker,who wove or spun them at piecework rates
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king Ludd's men
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rural workers who responded to harsh conditions with violence
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sabots
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wooden shoes
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Chartists
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artisans in movements for political rights in England
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Grand National Consolidated Trades Union
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an attempt to join all worker's unions together
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English Factory Acts
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series of measures that limmited the hours of thos who labored in mines and factories
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Poor Law
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differentiate the deserving poor from the underserving poor
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New Poor Law
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required anyone receiving assistance to live in a prisonlike workhouse
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