Inventions
Robert Fulton created this coal-powered mode of transportation
Steamboat
A fictional leader of a real movement which opposed new textile machines
Ned Ludd
In 1848, Karl Marx wrote about this ideology by saying "a spectre is haunting Europe".
Communism
This measure took over and fenced off land formerly shared by peasants
Enclosure
This metal, smelted by using coal, was integral in the early construction of railroads and other industrial technologies
Iron
Waterframe
He was Karl Marx's co-author on the Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Engels
Robert Owen set up a model community to test a set of ideas from this economic system
Socialism
When the British military attacked protesting workers in August of 1819
Peterloo Massacre
This deadly disease in particular claimed many lives during the early decades of urbanization
Cholera
Hargreave's invention which changed how threads were spun
Spinning Jenny
A 19th century pessimist who believed that overpopulation would soon lead to starvation.
Thomas Malthus
Utilitarianism
This act forbade the employment of children under the age of nine
The Factory Act of 1833
This city's population grew from 17,000 in the 1750s to 70,000
Manchester
John Kay's invention which arrived centuries before the creation of NASA
Flying Shuttle
The founder of the Methodist Church
John Wesley
Marx's term for the laboring class which would triumph against the elites of society
Proletariat
This 1842 act forbade women from working in a specific industry deemed dangerous to their health
The Mines Act of 1842
He came up with the "iron law of wages", which stated that when wages were high, families had more children.
David Ricardo
This invention from Jethro Tull helped farmers
Seed drill
He popularized the use of growing turnips to restore exhausted soil in England
Lord Charles Townshend
This movement in artwork sought to depict working class men and women as they actually were, often showing them toiling in the fields
Realism
The term used for addressing the problems which plagued industrial cities. These measures might include levelling and rebuilding entire neighborhoods.
Urban Renewal
This "vast cavern of glass and iron" was the structure in London which housed the Great Exhibition in 1851
Crystal Palace