UNIT 6 TERMS

Spielvogel: Pages 471-472, 510-513, Chapter 20, Pages 588-592, 605-608, 630-633;

Palmer: Pages 427-444, 453-454, 465-474, 497-503

Agricultural Revolution

Agrarian, Arable

Fallow

Yield

Husbandry

Little Ice Age

3 or 2 Field System vs Crop Rotation

Scientific Farming/Agricultural Experimentation

Enclosure Acts/Movement

Free-hold tenure

Charles “Turnip” Townshend

Jethro Tull - Seed Drill

Cottage Industry/Putting-Out System/Domestic System

Textile Industry

Capital

New financial practices (venture capital, property rights, Bank of England)

Entrepreneur

James Hargreaves - Spinning Jenny

John Kay - Flying Shuttle

Richard Arkwright - Water Frame

Edmund Cartwright - Power Loom

Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin

Newcomen Steam Engine

James Watt

Mass production

Henry Bessemer - Bessemer process

Richard Trevithick

George Stephenson - Rocket

Liverpool – Manchester Line

Great Exhibition of 1851

Crystal Palace

Queen Victoria

Prince Albert

Robert Fulton - Steamboat

The Great Hunger/Great Irish Famine/Irish Potato Famine

Urbanization

Industrialization

Working-class/Proletariat

Poor Law Commissioners

Urban Reformers

Edwin Chadwick

Report on the Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain

Cholera

Typhus

Public Health Acts

National Board of Health

Industrial Bourgeoisie

Artisans

Sadler Commission

Factory Acts

Ten Hours Act of 1847

Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800

Strikes

The Luddites

Chartism/Chartists

“Peoples Charter”

Physiocrats and François Quesnay (pg 471)

Manchester School (Palmer pg 435)

Classical Economists

Law of supply and demand

Law of diminishing returns

Adam Smith (pg 472)

Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Classical Liberalism (pg 589)

Laissez-faire (pg 589)

Corn Laws of 1815 (pg 585)

Anti-Corn Law League (Palmer pg 468)

Peterloo Massacre (Palmer pp 453-454)

Thomas Malthus (pg 589)

Essay on the Principles of Population

David Ricardo (pg 589)

Principles of Political Economy

“Iron law of wages”

John Stuart Mill (pg 589)

On Liberty

On the Subjection of Women

Utopian Socialism (pp. 591-592)

Robert Owen - New Lanark

Saint-Simonians

Charles Fourier (pr 592)

Louis Blanc (pg 592)

Flora Tristan (pg 592)

The Worker’s Union

Utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham

“The greatest good for the greatest number”

“Nation of Shopkeepers”