Industrial Revolution Test

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Adam Smith

"Father of Capitalism"

George Stephenson

"father of the railways", built 1st steam train, "the rocket"

laissez-faire

"let it be", "hands off", letting business owners decide working conditions, wages, and working hours

industrialization

period of social and economic change that transformed an agrarian society to an industrialized society

infrastructure

physical structures like roads, bridges, canals, etc

assembly line

production got quicker, more efficient but also boring

"you have nothing to loose but your chains"

quote by Marx, nothing to lose cuz don't have freedom

"workers of the world unite"

quote by Marx, working-class stand up

coup d'etat

removal of government

cult of domesticity

societies view on the role/status of women, purpose - wife & mother, emotional, nurture, not strong enough for gov/voting

Robert Fulton

steam boat

Samuel Morse

telegraph, morse cord

impressionism

texturized paintings, mind creates an image in your head

suffrage

the right to vote (women)

Karl Marx & Engels

wanted everyone to be equal, wrote Das Kapital & Communist Manifesto

enclosure movement

wealthy investors buy land from the farmers, produce more goods, cheaper, population increases

1750, Britain

When and where did the IR begin?

entrepreneur

a person using their own money to take a risk and start their own business

temperance

against alcohol; make alcohol illegal

Bessemer

better/faster way of making steel, major advancement

cottage industry

business in your home, not efficient, and factories faded it away (more efficient/production domestic system & putting out system

social darwinism

certain countries/races/species are superior than others/not seen as equal, not Darwin's goal

"religion is the opiate (drug) of the people"

Das Kapital

interchangeable parts

Eli Whitney, parts identical/useful for other inventions, steam engine -> steam train

realism

paintings that look real, invention of the camera put realism artists out of business

evolution

Charles Darwin, wrote origin of species, "survival of the fittest"

Alfred Nobel

Nobel peace prize, invented dynamite to create peace, too scared to fight against one another

"necessity is the mother of invention"

Plato

The rocket

Stephenson invention, 1st steam train, transportation made easier

socialism

economic system, Marx & Engels, make everyone equal, no more poor & rich, taxes equal

capitalism

economic system, private ownership, money, production

textiles

fabric/cloth, #1 industry

Industrial rev

factories/machinery -> made life easier/more efficient, period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing

urbanization

growth/movement to the cities, increased population, mining & factories increased

Agricultural rev (agrarian)

improved farming (seed drill, iron plow, crop rotation), more efficient tools, more production of goods, prices decrease, more people (population)

Samuel Slater

invented water-powered cotton mill, started factories in Mass, stole memory from England

spinning jenny

inventor - Hargreaves, makes thread fast

James Watt

inventor of improved steam engine

Eli Whitney

inventor of the cotton gin

James Hargreaves

inventor of the spinning jenny, makes thread fast, cloth production increased

Thomas Edison

light bulb changed the world, can work at night

McCormick

mechanic reaper

capital

money


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