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- Once steam-powered production was introduced into industry, its use grew quickly. By... twice as much steam power was in use as had been in 1800.
- The coal and iron industries had also undergone advances in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including the adoption of ..., and the puddling and rolling of pig iron
- From the 1830s, reforms started to be integrated, but state intervention was limited because of the Victorian fidelity to the principles of.., which dictated minimal state control of the market.
- In the 18th century, public confdence in the government's right to tax and spend wisely fell. A second critical feature of the Victorian state was the .... This was being rebuilt as the British state worked to relegitimize itself as a body that could tax moderately
- Farming grew during this period. A series of advances in agricultural efficiency (such as the adoption of ...) during the early modern era had made British farming more efficient and more productive. In Ireland, land was leased to tenant farmers on disadvantageous terms that kept them in poverty.
- While the Victorian period is usually characterized as an industrial age, in which factory, mill, and mine owners became wealthy through industrial profits, far more wealth was created in the world of ...
- Transportation, including railways, roads, and ocean shipping, was an important aspect of the Victorian economy. One entirely new arrival on the economic landscape was the railways, first built in ...
- Labor began to be divided. Example: Tailors paid women low wages to sew seams or make buttonholes , the seamstresses were among
- Between 1820 and 1850 the textile industries grew at a rate of over ...
- Manchester and Glasgow competed for the moniker "Cottonopolis" (which ... won by mid-century because of its higher-quality cloth).
- The British banking system played a key role in Victorian industrialization and economic growth because it was extremely efficient at providing ...
- At first, jennies were used by women in their homes. Then, women moved into cotton factories to work larger jennies. Finally, as spinning jennies were replaced by ..., women were pushed out of spinning, which was now a factory job, called "minding," done (mostly in south Lancashire) by men.
- National population increased by 120 precent between 1841 and
- Over the Victorian period, the state became associated with free trade, the ..., and equal treatment of social classes.
- Cotton textiles were an important part of the British economy: the first factories were in the cotton textile industry in ... and cotton cloth was one of Britain's main exports.
- The English Midlands, the North, and parts of Scotland became highly industrialised, but Ireland and the southeast of England remained largely
- This chapter divides the Victorian period into three parts. During the first, from ... Britain's economy was growing in a rapid and unregulated way. Growth was swift, but conditions could be very harsh, and there was little or no state regulation. The second period, from ..., was more prosperous and less harsh, because of the introduction of ... on growth and the treatment of workers. The third period was characterized by an economic depression from 1873 until 1896, and then by modest recovery until the start of World War I.
- Thomas Malthus feared that food supplies could never keep up with population growth and was convinced that only ....(including birth control, delayed marriage, and celibacy) could stave off starvation. It didn't become true due to ... . Even so his work influenced many Victorian reformers including....(1800 - 1890), who believed that social policies such as the Poor Law ought to be structured to provide disincentives for the poor to have too many children.
- At the same time, several new inventions and new modes of work organisation, including the spinning jenny, ...(3), emerged.
- President-elect Abraham Lincoln, speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following?ResponsesASouthern politicians would not abandon slavery, and they believed Lincoln was a threat to that system.BSectional divisions were not as deep as many thought, and there was agreement about gradual abolition.CPolitical leadership in previous administrations had successfully limited sectional conflict.DLincoln viewed foreign influences as serious threats to the stability of the United States.