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World History Final
Topic | Description |
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Robert Fulton | American engineer and inventor widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. |
Factory Work/Life in the Nineteenth Century | Forced to work under harsh conditions with little pay, and denied basic human needs. (sweatshops). Stupid long hours. |
Thomas Malthus | proposed theories on population growth, saying that the human race would outgrow it's food supply. |
Karl Marx | Theorist behind communism, well known German economist. |
Enclosure Movement | a push in the 18th and 19th century to consolidate land that had been formerly owned in common by all members of a village, most notable for grazing animals, turning it to private land. |
Labor Unions | representatives of workers in many industries in the United States. |
The Wealth of Nations | Published in 1776, one of the world's first collected descriptions of what bulids nations wealth and is a fundamental work in classical economics. |
The Reform Act of 1832 |