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
