Term | ID |
"Day-trippers" | |
Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan | Thomas Edison: an american, the Inventor of the light bulb
Joseph Swan: Briton responsible for house lighting |
Alexander Graham Bell | -Inventor of the telephone
-revolutionized communication |
Guglielmo Marconi | -Sent Radio waves across the Atlantic
-helped revolutionize communication |
internal combustion engine | -Engine type that would be used in cars and planes
-Modified by Gottlieb Daimler for use in cars |
Gottlieb Daimler | -Inventor of a light engine
-allowed for the invention of cars |
Henry Ford | -American Revolutionary of the car industry
-mass produced his Model T |
Wilbur and Orville Wright | -Brothers who flew in a plane
-First flight in a fixed wing plane with a gasoline engine. |
cartels | -a collection of businesses working together to regulate their prices
-decreased competition of capitalism |
the assembly line | -Allowed for quicker and easier production
-Worked along with interchangeable parts |
Second Industrial Revolution | -Revolution bringing light bulbs, cars, telephones, etc.
-increased ease of production with assembly line and interchangeable parts
-economic improvement |
Sweatshops and "sweating" | -Cheap wage jobs with easy textile work
-Often with women working from home |
white-collar jobs | -Often routine jobs with a bit of professionalism (receptionist, clerks, teachers, nurses)
-Occupied by women seeking escape from lower class jobs |
Contagious Diseases Acts | -act allowing for checking prostitutes for venereal disseases
-did not check males involved, which lead to female reformers getting the act repealed |
Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel | -Marxist leaders of the German Social Democratic Party
-Group could not be stopped by the government |
Social Democratic Party | -German Marxist group seeking better working class conditions.
-had coordinated actions such as strikes |
Jean Jaures | -The French leader of marx socialism
-Justified revolutionary socialism w/ past French revs |
May Day | -A day that unions agreed to go on strike
-happened internationally and was driven by nationalism and reviosionism |
Marxist "revisionism" | (aka evolutionary socialism)
-Took a Capitalist approach to Socialism
-believed that the growing middle class of capitalism could fight for working conditions and goals of Socialism |
Eduard Bernstien | -Main proponent of Revisionism
-Wrote "Evolutionary Socialism"
-Said that Capitalism was the best way to achieve the goals of socialism. |