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Industrial Rev. SG
Industrial revolution study guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |