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Industrial Rev. SG
Industrial revolution study guide
Term | Definition |
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Capital | Money supply |
Entrepreneur | Seekers of new business opportunities |
Industrial Capitalism | Economic system based on industrial production |
Socialism | Governmental ownership and control of production |
James Watt | Developed steam engine that could drive machinery |
Cotton industry | Production method using rural, at-home workers |
Spinning Jenny | Invention that improved thread production |
Conservatism | Belief in tradition and social stability |
Liberalism | Belief that people should be free from government restraint |
Multinational state | Collection of different peoples under the same government, as in the Austrian Empire |
Principles of intervention | Right of the powerful countries to maintain order throughout Europe |
Nationalism | Belief that people owe loyalty to a nation |
Militarism | Reliance on military strength |
Kaiser | Emperor |
Emancipation | Law that freed Russian serfs |
Abolitionism | A movement to end slavery |
Realpolitik | Bismarck's theory of practical, as opposed to idealistic, governance |
Romanticism | Emphasized feelings and imagination as sources of knowing |
Organic evolution | Theory that some organisms are more adaptable |
Natural selection | Theory that life forms from simpler forms |
Realism | Literary movement that stressed ordinary characters, precise description |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Considered the bridge between the classical and romantic periods in music, music that had to reflect his deepest feelings and emotions. Specialized in Romanticism |
Louis Pasteur | Proposed the germ theory of disease |
Karl Marx | Published the communist manifesto. Believed the proletariat would rise up and defeat the bourgeoisie and form a dictatorship, the government would then control the state and produce a classless society |
Charles Dickens | British novelist made famous by writing realistic novels about focusing on England's lower and middle class during Britain's Industrial Revolution |
Revisionist | A supporter of a policy of revision or modification |