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Ind. Rev. Ch. 19

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Anesthetic   Drug that prevents pain during surgery.  
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Enclosure   Process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers.  
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James Watt   Scottish engineer-looked at Newcomen's invention in 1764 to make improvements on the engine.  
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Smelt   Separates iron from its ore.  
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Capital   Money used to invest in enterprises.  
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Enterprise   Business organization in an area such as factories, mining, railroads, and shipping.  
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Entrepreneurs   Managed and assumed the financial risks of starting new business.  
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Putting Out System   Raw cotton was distributed to peasant families who spun it into thread and then wore the thread into cloth in their own homes.  
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Eli Whitney   Invented the cotton gin, separates the seeds from raw cotton at a fast rate.  
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Turnpikes   Private roads built by entrepreneurs who charged travelers a fee to use them.  
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Tenements   Multistory buildings divided into apartments.  
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Labor Unions   Workers organizations.  
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Thomas Malthus   British economist-saw the effects of the population explosion.  
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Utilitarianism   Idea that the goal of society should be the "greatest happiness for the greatest number" of its citizens.  
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Jeremy Bentham   British philosopher-advocated utilitarianism.  
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Means of Production   The farms, factories, railways, and other large businesses that produced and distributed goods.  
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Robert Owen   Set up a model community in New Lanark, Scotland to put his own ideas into practice.  
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Karl Marx   German philosopher-condemned the ideas of Utopians as unrealistic idealism.  
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Communism   System in which governments led by a small elite controlled all economic and political life.  
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Proletariat   Working class.  
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Social Democracy   Political ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism instead of a violent overthrow.  
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