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”