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Unit 5 World
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial revolution | began in england circa 1760 |
| spinning jenny | 1760s spinning machine |
| water frame | richard arkwright in 1769 |
| capitalism | economic system |
| adam smith | wrote the wealth of nations (1776) |
| laissez faire | approuch that means goverments should reduce/have little to no intervention |
| urbanization | increasing size and number of cities |
| self-strengthening movement | under Qing Dynasty |
| empress cixi | a conservative, first opposed reforms |
| tanzimat reforms | reforms after Mahud (1839-1879) |
| Middle class | consisted of factory and office managers |
| bourgeoisie | included middle class and investors who owned machines and factories |
| labor unions | organizations of workers that advocted for workers' rights |
| scientific socialism | approuch to economics based on how the world "actually" aperated |
| Karl Marx | German scholar and writer |
| John Locke | believed people had natural rights (to life liberty and pursuit of happiness) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | argued that females should get same education rights as males |
| Constitutional government | a government structured according to a written document know as the sonstitution |
| declaration of indepedence | expressed the philosophy behind colonists' fight against british rule |
| simon bolivar | creole, pushed for enlightenment |