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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tariff | tax on an imported good whose purpose it is to protect domestic industry |
| James Watt | improved the steam engine |
| The Great Exhibition of 1851 | an industrial fair in London whose purpose it was to display Britain’s industrial power |
| Crystal Palace | centerpiece of the Great Exhibition of 1851 |
| iron law of wages | said population growth would always mean that wages would sink to subsistence levels |
| David Ricardo | his main idea was the iron law of wages |
| Friedrich List | he promoted a customs union without tariffs for German member states, BUT high tariffs on imported goods |
| Manchester | site of the first English factory for textile production |
| Krupp | German family that created first German steel factory |
| Bessemer process | this allowed for the mass production of steel and drove down the price |
| Harrod's | one of the 1st European department stores (London) |
| Karl Benz | considered the inventor of the 1st practical automobile |
| cult of domesticity | the middle-class ideal that a woman's place is in the home |
| separate spheres | the middle class ideal that there are clear gender roles for males and females |
| Miasmatic theory | said that disease was spread by smell |
| Edwin Chadwick | he was the first to correlate filth with disease |
| germ theory | he said that disease was caused by small microbes |
| Louis Pasteur | first show that germs caused disease |
| Georges Haussmann | urban re-designer of Paris under Napoleon III |
| Factory Act of 1833 | first child labor law; children under 9 couldn’t work; 9-13 could only work 9 hours a day |
| Revisionism | ideology that said socialism should be practical, evolutionary, and democratic |
| Eduard Bernstein | he started democratic socialism, or revisionism |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | militant British suffragette |
| Josephine Butler | protested lock hospitals and treatment of prostitutes |