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| Question | Answer |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented water frame spinning machine |
| Henry Cort | Refined iron from pig iron to wrought iron Made the Puddling process |
| James Watt | Invented the steam engine |
| William Murdoch | 1st steam engine prototype |
| Richard Trethevick | made the 1st train to run on tracks 10 miles |
| George Stephenson | 1st Public Railroad Invents the Rocket |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Richest family in America |
| Andrew Carnegie | Made money from steel corporation used money for education but treated his workers very badly |
| John Rockfeller | Oil/Petroleum believed that education was meant to produce more useful workers |
| Michael Sadler | Got labour laws passed through Parliament Sadler Report |
| Edwin Chadwick | Urban reformer Report on the Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain |
| John Snow | Made a map showing where Cholera were frequently killing people Found the source of the disease |
| Robert Owen | Cotton manufacturer, Utopian socialist tried to make New harmony but failed |
| Karl Marx/Freidrich Engels | Worked together to make the Communist Manifesto, all the while not really knowing the workers well |
| Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations Praised capitalists |
| Factory System | Used machines and division for labor |
| Capitalists | People who have money usually factory owners |
| Great Exhibition | Exhibited UK's advancements in technology |
| Crystal Palace | Where the Great Exhibition took place made out of glass |
| Poor Law Commision | Detailed reports of working class bad for workers |
| Luddites | Attacked/destroyed machines, but it didn't really affect Industrial Revolution |
| Chartists | Aimed to achieve political democracy, voting rights for men |
| Trade Unions | Looked to gain decent wages strikes = not working |
| Utopian socialists | People who wanted equality wanted to create a new community |
| Bourgeoisie | Middle class |
| Porletariat | Working class |
| Agricultural Calendar | 44 holidays + 50 Sundays = 94 days/year more rest in winter |
| Sadler Report | Physically brought workers into parliament and argued for Labour Laws |
| 1832 Cholera Pamphlet | The creators didn't know the cause of Cholera Blamed the poor for not being sanitised |
| John Snow's Cholera Map | Showed to places where Cholera is most crowded, and pinpointed the cause to be dirty water in the Broad Street Pump |
| Communist Manifesto | talks about Class Conflict, and predicts that the Proletariats will come on top encouraged the working class to revolt |
| Wealth of Nations | A book praising communists and the industry-based economy |
| Textile Industry | Cloth is made by machines thanks to Arkwright and James Watt |
| Iron Industry | Henry Cort invents "puddling" which makes iron cheaper and stronger |
| Transportation | Trains are the main transportation at this time |
| Coal Industry | Child labour to mine coal in very cramped tunnels |
| Capitalism | A system when there's more profit in individuals rather than the government |
| Factory Act of 1833 | Age limit, work hours, child labours decreased, and women labour increased |
| Public Health Act | 1848 National Board of Health Public health boards Modern Sanitary systems |
| Utopian Socialism | Everyone shares his/her profit equal community |
| Communism/revolutionary socialism | everyone shares and people only take what is needed |
| "Gospel of Wealth" | People with lots of money should use their money for the good of humanity |
| Chartism | Political movement, but fails political democracy rights to vote(men only) |
| Labour law | Laws limiting the kinds of people and how long child labour X working hours etc. |
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