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WH chapter 19 part 1
World History Chapter 19 Vocabulary Part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Hargreaves | Invented The Spinning Jenny. |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented The Water Frame. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented The Cotton Gin. |
| James Watt | Patented The Modern Steam Engine. |
| Henry Bessemer | Developed a cheap and efficient method of making steel. |
| John McAdam | Developed a new way of building roads. |
| Robert Fulton | Invented The Steam Boat. |
| Samuel Morse | Invented the Telegraph and Morse Code. |
| Cyrus W. Field | Laid the first cable across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Adam Smith | Wrote The wealth Of Nations. |
| Thomas Malthus | Economic Professor who wrote an Essay on the Principle of Population. |
| David Ricardo | Wrote The Working Class Poverty Is Inevitable and he is known for The Iron Law Of Wages. |
| Charles Dickens | English writer that wrote the novel "David Copperfield." |
| Jeremy Bentham | Believed every act of society should be judge by its utility or usefulness. |
| John Stuart Mill | Believed Governments should work for the well being of all citizens. |
| Sir Thomas More | Wrote Utopia and was an English Humanist. |
| Robert Owen | The most influential Utopian Socialist. |
| Karl Marx | The most important critic of Capitalism known for his book "Das Kapital." |