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Question | Answer |
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What was "Laissez-faire A"? | Adam Smith (wrote The Wealth of Nations) believed in enterprise(capitalism). |
What was "Laissez-faire #1"? | Free market would produce more goods at lower prices. |
What was "Laissez-faire #2"? | Capitalist would reinvest in growing economy. |
What was "Malthus on Population A"? | Malthus holds bleak view. Said population grew to fast. |
What was "Malthus on Population #1"? | Population will outpace food. |
What was "Malthus on Population #2"? | Only checks on population growth are war, disease, and famine.(are necessary; no government involvement) |
What was "Malthus on Population #3"? | Families should have fewer children to preserve food supply. |
What was "Malthus on Population B?" | Ricardo shares view. "Iron law of wages" population growth would lead to fierce competition for jobs, lost wages and high unemployment. |
What was "Malthus on Population 1B"? | Wage increases are futile for working poor. |
What was "Malthus on Population 2B?" | Opposed government help for the poor. |
What was "Utilitarian for Limited Government A"? | Goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."(John Stuart Mill- Income tax, Jeremy Benthem) |
What was "Utilitarian for Limited Government #1"? | Laws or actions should be judged by their "utility". |
What was "Utilitarian for Limited Government #2"? | Individual freedom guarantees happiness. |
What was "Socialist thought Emerges A"? | Focus should be on the good of society in general, not on individual rights.(Wealth is distributed evenly) |
What was "Socialist thought Emerges #1"? | Belief that socialism would end poverty and injustices of industrial capitalism. |
What was "Socialist thought Emerges #2"? | People as a whole, not private individuals, should own and operate the means of production. |
What was "Socialist thought Emerges B"? | Socialists established utopian communities. |
What was "Socialist thought Emerges 1B"? | Hoped that equality among people would end conflict. |
What was "Socialist thought Emerges 2B"? | Utopian industrialist Robert Owen sets up a model community in Scotland. |
What was "Karl Marx explains class struggle A"? | New theory of "scientific socialism" is based on scientific study of history.(Karl and Fredrich write Communist Manifesto) |
What was "Karl Marx explains class struggle #1"? | Inevitable struggle between social classes will lead to a classless society.(Lower class will rise up and eventually take over) |
What was "Karl Marx explains class struggle #2"? | A classless society would end struggles for wealth and power. |
What was "Marxism in the future A"? | Marxism briefly flourishes. |
What was "Marxism in the future #1"? | In 1860, Germany adapts Marx's beliefs to form social democracy. |
What was "Marxism in the future #2"? | Marxism leads to Russian Revolution in 1917. |
What was "Marxism in the future #3"? | Independence ;leaders elsewhere turn to Marxism |
What was "Marxism in the future B"? | Marxism loses appeal. |
What was "Marxism in the future 1B"? | Failures in Marxist governments government illustrate its flaws. |
What was "Marxism in the future 2B"? | Nationalism wins out over working- class loyalty. |
What did Samuel Morse invent? | Telegraph. |
What did Henry Bessemer invent? | Produced steel from iron ore. |
What did Louis Pasteur invent? | Rabies and anthrax vaccine and pasteurized milk. |
What did Joseph Listen invent? | Antiseptics. |
What did Alfred Nobel invent? | Dynamite. |
What did Karl Benz invent? | Automobile. |
What did Thomas Edison invent? | Electric light bulb. |
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent? | Telephone. |
What did Orville and Wilbur Wright invent? | Airplane. |
What did Gugliema Marconi invent? | Radio. |