Agricultural Revolution
This was the old way of rotating crops, in which one year the field was left shallow
Three Crop Rotation
Used in the steam engine
Coal
taking advantage of a group of people
exploitation
a change made to a policy
reform
an economic system that is focused on profit
capitalism
Built by Jethro Tull - helped with planting
Seed Drill
This system in which rural farmers worked in their homes to produce goods before the Industrial Rev
Domestic/Putting out system
Tenements, poor housing that is overcrowded and dirty
slum
the privilege to vote
suffrage
little to no government interference
laissez-faire
Growth of cities
Urbanization
a new method of producing goods in which labor is divided
assembly line
another word for how middle class spent their free time
leisure
organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests such as fair wages, working hours, and working conditions
Unions
founder of communism
Karl Marx
Change in how they raised animals
Selective Breeding
inventor of the steam engine
James Watt
a disease that spread through the polluted water in England
Cholera
limited the workday to ten hours for women and children who worked in factories.
The 10 hours act
father of capitalism
Adam Smith
Lord Turnip Townsend
the creation of these improved transportation and communication in England
Trains
this committee investigated the poor working conditions in textile factories
The Sadler Committee
was created to give very poor children a chance to go to school.
ragged school
Marx said their would be a class struggle between these two classes
Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie