AP Euro: Industrial Revolution Already
Passed
Commercial Revolution ✔✔the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European
economies during the 16th and 17th centuries.
proto-industrialization ✔✔Prelimin
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AP Euro: Industrial Revolution Already
Passed
Commercial Revolution ✔✔the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European
economies during the 16th and 17th centuries.
proto-industrialization ✔✔Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers
become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home but in a
capitalist system in which materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban merchants;
prelude to Industrial Revolution.
cottage industry ✔✔This was the way form of work of the rural classes in which the costumer
would give the worker materials and the worker would create the desirable product
flying shuttle ✔✔was developed by John Kay, its invention was one of the key developments in
weaving that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution, enabled the weaver of a loom to throw the
shuttle back and forth between the threads with one hand
spinning jenny ✔✔This machine played an important role in the mechanization of textile
production. Like the spinning wheel, it may be operated by a treadle or by hand. But, unlike the
spinning wheel, it can spin more than one yarn at a time. The idea for multiple-yarn spinning was
conceived about 1764 by James Hargreaves, an English weaver. In 1770, he patented a machine
that could spin 16 yarns at a time. (643, 727)
water frame ✔✔1780's; Richard Arkwright; powered by horse or water; turned out yarn much
faster than cottage spinning wheels, led to development of mechanized looms
spinning mule ✔✔In 1779, Samuel Crompton combined the spinning jenny and the water frame
to create a machine which produced a thread which was stronger, finer and more consistentAgricultural Revolution ✔✔The transformation of farming that resulted in the eighteenth century
from the spread of new crops, improvements in cultivation techniques and livestock breeding, and
consolidation of small holdings into large farms from which tenants were expelled (600)
Bank of England ✔✔created in 1694 to ensure a stable money supply and to lay the foundation
for a network of lending institutions
Bubble Act ✔✔act of parliament forbidding joint stock companies
Lowes Act ✔✔Allowed for limited liability for business owners
Navigation Acts ✔✔Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were
required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry
because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Corn Laws ✔✔Revised in 1815 these laws didn't allow for importing of cheap grain, this gave
way to great anger towards the landed aristocracy who imposed them for their own good. Their
repeal signified the end of dominance by the landed nobility
James Watt ✔✔Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its
wide use in industry (1736-1819)
steam engine ✔✔1760's; James Watt; engine powered by steam that could pump water from mines
3X as quickly as previous engines
power loom ✔✔a loom operated mechanically, run by water putting the loom side by side wit hthe
spinning machines in factories, changed workers job from running it to watching it, Invented in
1787, invented by Edward Cartwright , it speeded up the production of textilesheavy industry ✔✔industry that requires a large capital investment and that produces items used
in other industries
Henry Cort ✔✔In the 1780s, Cort developed the puddling furnace, which allowed pig iron to be
refined in turn with coke (made from coal, not the drink or drug). Cort also developed heavy-duty
steam-powered rolling mills, which were capable of spewing out finished iron in every shape and
form.
puddling furnace ✔✔This invention allowed impurities to be removed from iron ore and
production to speed up 15x.
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