AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

TOPICS AND TERMS Mercantilism and the Rise of Capitalism: The Industrial Revolution - mercantilism, rise of capitalism - the Commercial Revolution - inflation - cash crops - rise of capitalism - capital - chartered companies - joint-stock companies - limited liability - the bourse - mercantilism - theory of mercantilism - bullionism - balance of trade - mother country - essential industries - overseas colonization - aka Old Imperialism - the Industrial Revolution - agricultural revolution in England - the enclosure movement - Jethro Tull - industrial proletariat - technical advances - energy - water, coal, steam engines - textiles - fly shuttle, spinning jenny, water frame, steam engine, cotton gin - coal - steam pump, improved pump - transportation - steamship, railroads, canals - Oil - internal combustion engine - Results of the Industrial Revolution - increased production, availability of manufactured goods - bad working conditions, sweat shops - the Sadler Commission - Luddities - effects on class and gender - industrialists/capitalists - child labor laws - Jeremy Bentham - utilitarianism - women and children’s rights - feminism - theories of economics - Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations - laissez-faire - Thomas Malthus - David Ricardo - Iron Law of Wages - Utopian Socialists - “dismal science” - Robert Owen - Comte de Saint-Simon - technocrats - Karl Marx - Hegelian dialectic - Dialectical materialism - communism - Class Struggle - inevitable revolution - surplus value theory - dictatorship of the proletariat - the Technical Revolution - mass production - consolidation - big business - population shift - partial list of inventors - John Kay - James Hargreaves - Richard Arkwright - Eli Whitney - Thomas Newcomen - James Watt - Robert Fulton - George Stephenson