Unit 1 Industrial Revolution

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Refers to the greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s
Industrial Revolution
The process of developing machine production of goods, required such recources.
Industrialization
Change where you grow your crops
Crop Rotation
A huge building where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine
Factory
An engine that used steam to generate power
Steam Engine
A message to a distance using a wire
Telegraph
Social class made up skilled workers, proffesionals, buisness people, and wealthy farmers
Middle Class
Is an economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit
Capitalism
A group of workers formed to bargain better working conditions
Union
A revolution that changed how farmers farmed, and worked.
Agricultural Revolution
Invented the morse code
Samuel Morse
A town where the Industrial Revolution began.
Manchester
The theory, proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700s, the government actions are useful only if they promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Utilitarianism
The revolution of locomotives, steam engines, and cars
Transportation Revolution
Made the improved steam engine.
James Watts