The Industrial Revolution
Britain was richly supplied with these two mineral resources, which were essential for the manufacturing process.
What are coal and iron ore?
This positive term describes business leaders whose contributions were seen as the foundation of modern economic power.
What are Captains of Industry?
This was a reactionary movement of skilled artisans who destroyed over 200 machines because they were being replaced by unskilled labor.
What is Luddism (or the Luddites)?
This term simply means "the right to vote".
What is suffrage?
In this type of society, the government plays a large role in providing for the needs and common good of its citizens.
What is a welfare state?
This term refers to the amount of goods and services workers can afford to buy, which increased overall during the application of liberal economic ideas.
What is the standard of living?
This negative term describes powerful 19th-century industrialists who were seen as building fortunes by "stealing from the public".
What are Robber Barons?
These were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament to make working conditions fairer, particularly for women and children.
What are the Factory Acts?
According to the slides, this was the first country to legally give women the right to vote in 1839.
What is New Zealand?
Unlike classical liberalism, modern liberalism emphasizes this type of government involvement to help the disadvantaged.
What is significant government intervention?
These new methods of production allowed more food to be grown by fewer people, creating a surplus of labor for new factories.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Robber Barons were often accused of paying their workers these types of wages.
What are low wages?
These organizations use "strength in numbers" and techniques like strikes to negotiate better contracts for workers.
What are labor unions?
While white women in Canada earned the right to vote federally in 1918, they did not earn the right to vote in this province until 1940.
What is Quebec?
This standard for human rights was adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations in 1948.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
During the late 18th century, children were often hired because they were small enough to fit in tight spaces and were considered more of this than adults.
What is obedient?
A "Captain of Industry" might give back to the community by creating these institutions, many of which still exist today.
What are museums, libraries, and colleges?
his 1919 event saw 30,000 workers walk off the job to protest high unemployment and the rising cost of living.
What was the Winnipeg General Strike?
This type of suffrage gives the right to vote to all adult citizens regardless of wealth, gender, or race.
What is universal suffrage?
Opponents of the welfare state argue that it discourages these two things in individuals.
What are innovation and motivation?
In his "Iron Law of Wages," this economist argued that wages should be left to the "free competition of the market" and never controlled by the legislature.
Who is David Ricardo?
Both Captains of Industry and Robber Barons were credited with boosting this by building factories.
What is the supply of goods?
Critics of labor unions argued that they slow down progress by protecting workers who are unproductive or this.
What is unskilled (or unsuited for their jobs)?
It was not until this year that all women in Canada, including Indigenous women, were granted the right to vote.
What is 1960?
Modern liberalism shifted the focus from "negative freedom" to these, such as the freedom of thought, belief, and the press.
What are positive freedoms?