Industrial Revolution Test
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
