APEH - UNit 6 Vocab 1/2

Money used for investment

Person who organize and work businesses

Big improvements of farming techniques, increase in crops, better diets and health

Energy created from flowing water

Cloth

Terms for production of goods, like cloth, made privately, like by families

speed up production of cloth, helped factories create textiles

Created by James Watt, first artificial power created by man

Robert Fulton, first steam powered boat, traveled up the Hudson river

George Stephenson's , steam powered railroad, won British National competition

standardized world time, divided globe into 24 time zones

new way to produce goods, berid the Cottage Industry. Workers worked in factories using powered machinery

expression, by Ricardo, workers governed by law of supply and demand, like a commodity

World fair, nations displayed, their latest inventions

potato crop grew fungus, mass hunger, political instability in Europe

tariffs passed by British Parliament, places on imported grains to help British farms, But made bread more expensive

Overcrowded apartment building, poor city

bacteria caused by infected water

bacteria caused by contaminated water

contagious infection, lungs, hit overcrowded cities

system of pipes, have clean drinkable water

Urban police forces, organized by Peel. Improve public safety

Laws, by British Parliament to improve factory conditions

Laws by British Parliament, banned women and boys under 10 from mining

treating someone unfairly to benefit from their labor

association of workers to protect their rights

Passed by British Parliament, during Napoleonic Wars, forbid workers from unionizing

A large number of employees refuse to work, to for company to listen to their demands

British workers who smashed factory machines to protest

educated middle class "oppressors" of workers

Urban working class of Europe. Marx, "oppressed class"