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Industrial Revolutio
(Willis) Industrial Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The process by which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machinery. | Industrial Revolution |
| The money needed to start a new business. | Capital |
| Someone who wants to start a business. | Entrepreneurs |
| Businesses such as shipping, mining, and manufacturing can be called | Enterprises |
| This was the cottage industry. Where raw cotton was distributed to peasant families, who turned the raw material into a finished manufactured good. | Putting-out System |
| The movement of people from rural areas to cities. | Urbanization |
| Crowded, multistory buildings divided into apartments. | Tenements |
| The term for when women had to work in the factories then had to go home and provide for her children and husband. | Double burden |
| This social class included inventors, investors, merchants, and skilled artisans. | Middle Class |
| This was the heart of the industrial city. | Factory |
| The economic approach that businesses should operate without any government interference. | Laissez-faire |
| The most famous laissez-faire thinker who wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776. | Adam Smith |
| The economist who carefully studied the impact of the population explosion in 18th century England. | Thomas Malthus |
| The idea that the goal of society should be the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of citizens." | Utilitarianism |
| The economic idea that people as a whole should own and operate the means of production for the general good. | Socialism |
| The economic ideas that would eliminate the social classes leading to a classless society. | Communism |
| The author of The Communist Manifesto who first created the ideas of Communism. | Karl Marx |
| The term Karl Marx used to refer to the working class. | Proletariat |
| This country in Europe was the second country to industrialize.. | Belgium |
| He patented a new process for making steel, making it cheaper and stronger. | Henry Bessemer |
| He invented dynamite. | Alfred Nobel |
| This machine invented by Michael Faraday generated electricity. | Dynamo |
| He invented the electric light bulb. | Thomas Edison |
| Workers added parts to a product as it moved along a belt through the factory. | Assembly line |
| Identical components that could be used in place of one another. | Interchangeable part |
| Shares in a company. | Stock |
| Another word for money. | Capital |
| Buisnesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock. | Corporations |
| When a group of corporations join forces and fix prices, set production quotas, or control markets. | Cartel |
| Exclusive control of an industry. | Monopoly |
| He proved the germ thoery. | Louis Pasteur |
| This showed that microbes caused specific illnesses. | Germ Theory |
| He identified the major cause of tuberculosis. | Robert Koch |
| She imporved hospital conditions, drastically reducing deaths from infection. | Florence Nightingale |
| The process of fixing up the poor areas of a city. | Urban renewal |
| A self-help group to aid sick or injured workers. | Mutual-aid socieites |
| He discovered how antiseptics prevented infection. | Joseph Lister |
| The measure of the quiality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society. | Standard of living |
| This idea emerged and encouraged women to stay home. | Cult of domesticity |
| Women were supporters of this movement which banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. | Temperance movement |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth were all leaders of this movement in the United States, which would allow women to vote. | Women's suffrage |
| In his book, On the Origin of Species, this scientist explained how species could evolve through natural selection. | Charles Darwin |
| Applying the ideas of natural selection to beliefs about society. | Social Darwinism |
| An English novelist who vividly portrayed the lives of slum dwellers and factory workers. | Charles Dickens |
| An artistic style that emphasized imagination, freedom, and emotions. | Romanticism |
| An artistic style that represents the world as it is. | Realism |
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