Industrial Revolution
The era when the use of power-driven machinery was devoloped. (1700's)
Origin of the Industrial Revolution
Great Britain
Factors of the Industrial Revolution
Exploration and Colonialism, Seapower, Political Stability, Governement Support and Growth of Private Investment.
"Research and Devolopment"
Experiments funded by private businesses for creating better products.
Jethro Tull
Invented the seed drill, a machine that made planting grain more efficient. (1701)
Enclosure Movement
The process by which British landlords consolidated or fenced in common lands to increase the production of cash crops. The Enclosure Acts led to an increase in the size of farms held by large landowners. Threw many farmers off the land→Went to the city, looking for jobs.
Factors of Production
The essential elements that a nation needs to achieve economic sucess.
3 Factors of Production
Land-natural resource, Labor-growing population, and Capital- funds for investment in business.
"Human Capital"
People with abilities and skills needed in industry.
Cotton Industry
A craft occupation performed in the home.
Industrialization
The process of changing to power driven machinery.
Eli Whitney
American inventor of the cotton gin, a machine that removed the seeds more efficiently. (1793)
James Hargreaves
English inventor of the spinning jenny. (1764)
Richard Arkwright
Inventor of the water/spinning frame, spun stronger and thinner thread. (1768)
John Kay
Inventor of the flying shuttle, doubled weaving speed. This invention made many people lose their job. John Kay end up dying in poverty. (1733)
Edmund Cartwright
Inventor of the power loom, a larger and faster weaving system. (1785)
Samuel Crompton
Inventor of the spinning mule, a combination of the spinning jenny and water frame. It produced stronger thread in less time. (1779)
James Wyatt
Inventor of the first sucessful steam engine. (1769)
Richard Trevithick
Used a steam engine to power the 1st locomotive; steam powered trains.
Robert Fulton
American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship called the Clermont.
Great Britain
Outlawed the export of certain machines and didn't allow some skilled craftmen from leaving the country.→ Result: 1760-1830 Industrial Revolution took mainly in Great Britain.
Alexander Hamilton
U.S Treasury Secretary, wrote "Report on Manufactures". Argued that industrialization would help the United States gain economic indpendence from Great Britain. (1791)
Samuel Slater
He memorized the way that the British made machines and he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine. Known as the "Father of American Industry"
Francis Cabot Lowell
Founder of the Mill in Lowell, Massuchusetts, used the power of the waterfall to run his machinery. Often hired young and single women, and provided them with good wages and clean housing.
William Cockerill
A british engineer, who brought industry to continental Europe. Founded a textile factory in Belgium in 1807.
Belgium
2nd most industrialized european country after Great Britain.
Benefits of weavers working @ home
Weavers controlled their schedule and product quality. Able to make decisions on when to work and when to rest.
Disadvantages of weavers working @ home
Fire or flood that destroyed the homes equipment could ruin a family. Demand of technical skills, took long to learn. Required strength.
Working Conditions
Long work hours, lack of ventilation, poor sanitation, noisy, and inadequate food. Common throughout the ate 1700s and into the 1800s.
Northwestern Region of England
Nicknamed the "black country". An American visitor called the region "black by day and red by night".
Manchester
British city, symbolized the problems of Inudstrialization. City was unsanitary, some neighborhoods had only 2 toilets for ever 250 residents; disese spread rapidly. 6 out of 10 children died before the age of 5.
Luddite Movement
A movement by a group called the Luddites, named after General Ned Ludd, a figure who likely did not exist. The movement started in 1811 when masked workers attack a textile factory in Nottingham, England. The Luddites opposed machines that were "hurtful to the commonality," (put them out of work) and burned factories in protest. By 1812 the movement had spread beyond Britain, but ended after several Luddites were hanged.
Labor Unions
Organizations representing worker's interest. They would organize strikes, or work soppages to urge employers to raise wages and improve conditions. Later, Parliament banned Unions and strikes UNTIL 1871; legalized again.
Laws passed by Parliament
1. Limited hours for adults and children. 2. Child workers had to be atleast 9 years old.
Middle Class
Groups or types of workers that were in the middle income range, between rich factory ownders and poor factory workers. Includes managers, accountants, engineers, and mechanics.
Mass Production
The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
American System
Elements of mass productin including interchangeable parts and assembly line.
Interchangeable Parts
Identical machin-made parts.
Assembly Line
Mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
Mercantilism
An economic system, a nation's strength dpended on it's wealth; restricted trade to acquire wealth.
Laissez-Faire Economics
The idea that governments should not interefere in business. French phrase "free to do"
Adam Smith
Scottish professor, leading advocate of Laissez-Faire ecnomics (Against mercantilism) Published " The Wealth of Nations" in 1776, wrote that markets free from government interference benefited all. Known as the "Father of Capitalism".
Market Economy
Economic system free from regulation.
Thomas Malthus
Supporter of Smith. Believed that the poulation will continue to grow and entually outsrip the food supply. Belived that poverty and misery would never go away. He also believed that the population growth coudl only be slowed down by war, faine, and decrease reproduction. His ideas were used to justify low wages and laws that limited charity to the poor.
Entrepreneur
Someone who starts a new business.
David Ricardo
Theory: Natural Economic forces would keep low wages so low that workers barely had enough to survice.
Andrew Carnegie
** Born in Scottland. Best example of "Rags to Riches" sucess. He led the expansion of the American Steel Industry. Often gave money to charity.
Cornellus Vanderbilt
Railroads
John d. Rockefeller
Oil.
Robert Owen
Created the theory of Socialism, believed that for the good of all, socieety or government should own property and control industry. He built a mill complex at New Lanark, Scottland. (Workers earned good pay and etc.)
Socialism
State ownership of the means of production. State should control and plan the economy, and distribute wealth more equally.
Utopia
An ideal community where poverty and evils of society didn't exist.
Utopianism
***Type of Socialism. Devoloped in the early 1800's, the belief that Utopias can solve society's problem.
Social Democracy
Movement that believed in Socialism.
Karl Max
Wrote "Das Kapital" in 1867, which argued against capitalism. Said that capitalism disrupts the relationship between labor and profit. Thought that there should be a direct connection betweens one's work and one's pay.
Communism
The system in which the government owns almost of all the means of production and controsl economic planning.
Revolutionary
***Type of Socialism. (Marxist) "Communist Manifesto" 1848, most radical.
Revisionist
***Type of Socialism. (Democratic) Developed in the late 19th century.
Proletariat
Workers
Marx's Advice to Workers
A state of war existed with the bourgeoisie. Government, law, morality, and religion were weapons of the bourgeoise; don't trust. To rise apove the proletariet is is betrayel. Never negotiate for concessions and class conciousness must be developed.
Meat Packing Industry
Lured workers to Chicago. Population frw from 30,000 to 1.7 million.
Steel Industry
Pittsburg Pennslyvania.
Urbanization
The growth in the population of people living in towns and cities.
Industrial Cities
Lively, fast-paced, and crowded.
London
Had a problem with smog, smoke combined with fog. In 1873 a smog episode caused 268 dealths.
Migration to the United States
1870-1900, about 12 million people immigrated to the U.S. Many came from Ireland, England, Germany, Italy, Russia and China. Many poured into Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. About 42% of New Yorkers were foreign born in 1890.
Improvements in the cities
City modernized their water and sewer systems; better plumbing→ Allowed clean drinking water, toilets, and bathtubs→Health and Sanitation improved.
William Le Baron Jenney
Architect, designed the first skyscraper in 1883 in Chicago. It was 10 stories tall.
Subway (London)
Opened the world's first supway line in 1863.
Napoleon II
Created parks in Paris to give working people places for healthy recreation in 1860.
Suburbs
Cities crowded→People moved out into the suburbs, less crowded,quieter, and cleaner. Suburbs developed along the railroad and bus lines.
Romantiscm
A literary and artisic developement of the early 1800s.
Themes of Romantism
Nationalism, Libralism, Nature, Reactionary against the Enlightment and the Industrial Revolution, and Focus on dramatic moments in history.
Jacques Louis David
Pieces: Death of Marat, Death of Socrates, and Napoleon.
Theodore Gericault
Pieces: Raft of Medusa
Eugene Delacroix
Pieces: The Sea of Galilee, Liberty Leading the People, and the Massacre of Chios.
Francis Goya
Pieces: Saturn Devouring Children, and the Third of May.
Joseph Turner
Pieces: The Fighting Temeraire
John Constable
Pieces: Salisbury
Realism
Reactionary movement in the mid 1800s to romanticism.
Themes of Realism
Realistic point of view and the look at average and ordinary aspects of life.
Gustave Coubert
Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, The Meeting, Burial at Ornans, and The Stonebreakers.
Honore Daumier
The Burden, The Laundress & The Third Class Carriage
Jean Francois Millet
The Gleaners
William Wordworth
Poet; definition of poetry: " The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility".
Ludwig Van Beethoven
German Composer
William Blake
English artist, painted scenes of mystical beauty.
Charlies Dickens
Englismen, wrote "Hard Times"; about the struggles of London's poor.
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer; "War and Peace"; showed that war is chaotic and horrible.
Henrik Ibsen
Norweigen playwright; " A Doll's House"; revealed the unfair treatment of woman within families.