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WC Unit 5 Terms
For the test February 7th
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anesthetic | Drug that prevents pain during surgery |
| Enclosure | When the rich took land from peasants |
| James Watt | Perfected the steam engine |
| Smelt | Process to make iron |
| Capital | Money used to invest |
| Enterprise | Business |
| Entrepreneur | Small business owner |
| Putting-out system | Peasants made cloth in their homes |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin |
| Turnpike | Private roads |
| Liverpool and Manchester | Cities in England |
| Urbanization | People moving toward cities |
| Tenement | Apartment buildings with small rooms |
| Labor unions | Workers’ organizations |
| Thomas Malthus | Studied the effects of the population explosion |
| Jeremy Bentham | Came up with utilitarianism |
| Utilitarianism | Something is right if it makes people happy |
| Socialism | People control the means of production and goods are distributed by how hard you work |
| Means of production | Farms and factories |
| Robert Owen | Started a utopia in Scotland |
| Karl Marx | Founded communism, wrote The Communist Manifesto |
| Communism | People control the means of production and goods are distributed equally |
| Proletariat | Term Marx came up with for the poor working class that was oppressed by the bourgeoisie |
| Social Democracy | A smooth transition from capitalism to socialism |