Industrial Revolution

why were other European countries slower to industrialize than Britain

Great Britain had favorable geography its financial systems political stability and natural resources sparked industrialization

Samuel Slater

Man that stole British techniques to start American industrial revolution

what are the characteristics of the free enterprise in Adam Smith's The Wealth of the Nations?

The law of self interest- people work for their own good, the law of competition competition- forces you go to make a better product, the law supply and demand -enough goods would be produced at the least possible price to meet demand in the market economy

Louis Pasteur

develop germ theory

Edmund Cartwright

developed the power loom

socialism

economic system stuff owned by public for good of all

Adam Smith

economist who wrote wealth of Nations

laissez Faire

government does not influence economic activities

James Watt

improved steam engine

Jethro Tull

invented seed drill

Samuel Compton

invented the spinning mule

Richard Arkwright

invented the water frame

how did the enclosure movement change agriculture in england

it allowed landowners to try new agriculture methods and large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities

factors of production

land, labor, and capital (wealth)

unions

large group of workers that band together

what role did textile manufacturing play in initiating the industrial revolution

many inventions were made in the textile industry and the progress that resulted from them spurred other industrial movements

puddling

method of making better steel

collective-bargaining

negotiating as a large group

Dimitri Mendeleyev

organized the periodic table

George Stephenson

set up the world's first rail line

four natural resources needed for British industrialization

water power in the cold to fuel the new machines, iron ore to construct machines tools and buildings, rivers for inland transportation, harbors from which merchant ships set sail

Karl Marx

wrote Communist manifesto

which country was the first to industrialize in Europe after England

Belgium

What did the industrial revolution began with

agricultural revolution

William Wilberforce

anti-slavery advocate in England

how did women fight for change during the Industrial Revolution

Women lead reform movements to address this and other pressing social issues and form unions of the trades where they dominated