The Luddites
Who are the Luddites?
-Key point: They are angry textile workers that loses their jobs because of machines.
What are canals?
Key point: man-made river for transportation
Who is the person who believes in communism?
-Key point: Karl Marx
Name a person that believes in communism (it is much easier than it sounds)
-Key point: Karl Marx
What is the Industrial Revolution?
-Key point: a time period where goods' production changed from "people power" to advanced machines leading to global productivity.
What is the Luddites' main goal?
-Key point: To destroy the machines and get their jobs back.
What is Steam Power?
Key point: power source which makes it possible to build factories away from water.
What did the industrialist (a.k.a Henry Ford) do? (name one only)
-Key point: Invented modern day system + 5 day work week
- Other lesser key points: Being sympathetic to Hitler + called police on strikers + horrible dad (son died of stomach ulcer)
What is the Wealth of Nations about?
-Key point: About extolling the benefits of labor, competition, and trade.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
-Key point: new invention made farming much easier which led to much larger production
How big of a percentage is the pay cut in 1802 to 1809?
-Key point: 21 shillings to 14 shillings (~34% pay cut)
Name the 3 inventions on Agricultural Revolution. (all three)
Who is the author for the Wealth of Nations?
-Key point: Adam Smiths
What is the Communist Manifesto about?
-Key point: Fighting against the bourgeoisie
What made Great Britain the ideal place for the Industrial Revolution? (State at least 3 reasons)
- Key points (any three is okay): Coal, Transportation, Educated Workforce, Great Navy Fleet, and People ready to work
In 1807, how many people signed in petition of favor of a minimum wage but was eventually defeated by the House of Commons?
-Key point: 130000 people
What did the inventions do?
The inventions took the place of hand-made craftsmanship, causing many to lose their jobs due to the replacement of the inventions.
Who is the inventor of the Spinning Jenny?
-Key point: James Hargreaves
What is Laissez Faire?
-Key point: Laissez Faire is a belief where the government should stay out of economic affairs.
What happened to the population during the Revolution? (must be exact population)
7.5 million
Who signed the threatening letter in 1812 to a factory owner in Huddersfield?
-Key point: General Ned Ludd
What does the Spinning Jenny do?
-Key point: to produce textile faster
-Who wrote the Communist Manifesto? (there's two apparently)
-Key point: Karl Marx + Frederich Engels
What did Karl Marx and Frederich Engles agree about in writing the Communist Manifesto?
-Key point: Argued about workers needing to unite and seize the means of production in order to improve their lives and the working conditions.
(because this is the basic section, the easy part of all, there will be two sub-questions, answer both)
a. What are the four different classes?
b. What did the working class do?
a. The classes are the lower class, workers working class, middle class, and the upper class.
b. The working class mostly work in factories and when they work, they are getting deeper in debt.
(easy right?)