Agriculture
This new method prevented the soil from wearing out by planting different crops every other year.
Crop rotation
The people populating were working in these places
Factories
This European country came to rival Britain and the USA as the leading industrial power after 1870.
Germany
When you have total control over a market
Monopoly
Organizations that helped workers to gain better working conditions.
Labor Unions
The fencing off of public lands to create larger lands to farm.
Enclosure movement
These three factors were the reason Britain was the first country to industrialize.
Capital, Coal or resources of coal and iron and labor force.
This is the name of the new social class emerging during the industrial revolution.
Factory workers
A group of workers that were hired because they were very cheap and there were many of them.
Children
Karl Marx's economic plan to address the negatives of industrialization.
Communism
This system provided families in the countryside with e.g. wool and cotton where they spun the material into thread.
Domestic system/Cottage Industry
In order to deliver the increased amount of goods improved transportation was needed. 1759 was the start of extensive river to river connections.
Canal building
Adam Smith wrote the "Wealth of Nations" and is credited as the father of this economic system.
Capitalism
The growing cities caused the following problems
Bad sanitation, poor housing and diseases spread rapidly.
Governments started using this to fund projects to improve lives of their citizens, such as paving roads and cleaning streets.
Taxes
This is the time prior to the Industrial Revolution where farming practices were improved and increased England's population.
Agricultural Revolution
A system that controlled workers and was able to bring workers and machines together under one roof.
The Factory System
This social class came to challenge the wealthy aristocracy during the 1800's
The middle class
This group of people had a growing power over the lives of the workers. They regularly exploited working class families.
Industrial Capitalist/ Factory Owners
He improved his workers' lives by building homes, giving them free education, and creating utopian Factory Towns, such as Harmony
Robert Owens
An invention that improved agriculture by planting seeds in straight rows.
Seed drill
An invention that revolutionized textile industry by making it possible to spin several threads at once.
Spinning Jenny
George Stephenson created the Rocket which was...
The steam-powered locomotive
The amount of hours an average worker worked.
12-16 hours
The name of the act which limited the working day for children. 8 hours a day for 9-13 year olds and 12 hours a day for 14-18 year olds.
Althorpe's Law/ The Factory act