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Industrial Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | the transition to a new manufacturing process (machine power) |
| Interchangeable Parts | parts that are made to ensure that they are identical into any assembly of the same type |
| Assembly Line | sereis of workers and machines in a factory |
| Mass Production | production of large amounts of standardized products |
| Industrial Espionage | people who spied on machines |
| Boarding Houses | Factory owned, single roomed apartment |
| Rickets | disease that softens bones in immature mammals due to deficeincy of vitamin D (children) |
| Cholera | an infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae (factory workers) |
| INvisible Hand | a metaphor to describe the self-regulating behavier of the market |
| Laissez-Faire Economics | an economic enviroment in which transactions between private parties are free from government restrictions |
| Canals | a man-made waterway for boats and ships |
| Toll Roads | a public or private roadway in which you have to pay a fee |
| Division of Labor | specialization of individuals who perform specific tasks or rolls |
| Tenement Buildings | English speaking areas substandard multifamily dwellingf in urban core usually occupied by old, poor people |
| Textile | a type of clothe or woven fabric |
| Telegraph | a system of transferring messages from a distance along a wire |
| Factory Act 1833 | series of acts that limited working hours for women and children |
| Universal suffrage | the right for all adults to vote |
| Child Labor | the employment of children in harsh and unfair conditions |
| Jacob Riis | author of "How the other half lives" which shows the first pictures of poor people living |
| Adam Smith | author of "Wealth of Nations" (invisible hand) |
| monopoly | one company that owns everything dealing with one speific thing |
| socialism | a political system that is owned by the people |
| suffragists | people who advocate for the right to vote for all |
| Horizontal Integration | absorpstion into single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production |
| Vertical Integration | the combination in one company of two or more stages of production |
| entrepreneurs | people who own a business |
| Louis Pasteur | disease spreads through germs |
| Charles Darwin | -plants and animals have evolved over a long period of time from simplier forms. -survival of the sickest - on the origin of species by means of natural selection |
| ALbert Einstien | he believed that time and space dissapear with matter -atomic energy |
| Sigmund Freud | believed that hidden feelings influenced behavior, however, because they were of the unconscious |
| Social Darwinism | to them, the strong and fit- the abel and energetic- had risen to the top' the stupid and lazy had fallen to the wayside |
| Anti-Semetism | hostility and discrimination against the Jews |
| Carnegie | steel industry; vertical integration |
| Rockefeller | oil industry; horizontal integration |
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