Everything Flashcards

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Abraham Darby

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Ironmaster
Foundryman

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karl benz

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three wheel motor wagon

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bessemer

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The first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel

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coal

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A major foundation for American industrialization in the nineteenth-century

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working class conditions

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Harsh conditions in their homes to face harsher conditions in factories and textile mills

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david ricardo

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An 18th-century English economist renowned for his contributions to economic theory

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darwin

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natural selection idea

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enclosure

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The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.

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factories

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A method of manufacturing that emerged in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

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florence nightengle

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nursing

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ford

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car

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james watt

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steam engine

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jeremy betheam

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Advocated radical political and social reform

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john stuart mill

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Influential philosopher, economist, politician, and senior official in the East India Company

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john wesley

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first synthetic plastic

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karl marx

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A step in the historical materialism of the world.

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lassez-faire

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An economic philosophy of free-market capitalism that opposes government intervention

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louis sullivan

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American architect, regarded as the spiritual father of modern American architecture and identified with the aesthetics of early skyscraper design.

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luddites

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People violently opposed to technological change

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marconi

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wireless telegraph

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middle class(cult of domesticy)

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An ideology that created a new idea about the role of women in society.

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morse

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Created the original telegraph
Electromagnetic capabilities - that’s why it worked

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pasteur

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Chemist
Rabies vacciene

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industrial reveloution results

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The Industrial Revolution shifted societies from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.

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robert owen
An advocate of the working class, he improved working conditions for factory workers, which he demonstrated at New Lanark, Scotland, became a leader in trade unionism, promoted social equality through his experimental Utopian communities, and supported the passage of child labour laws and free education for children.
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soicalism
A populist economic and political system based on collective, common, or public ownership of the means of production.
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textile industry
Based on the development of cloth and clothing.
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thomas malthus
A self-equilibrating system of population and economic activity in which the population level is stable at a subsistence wage level.
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urbanization
Spread out into the countryside and up into the sky, thanks to new methods of building taller buildings
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utilitarnism
Those that benefited financially from the industrial revolution (the middle class factory owners) loved the utilitarian ideology. The utilitarian upper class thought It was alright if the lower class was suffering as long as they were gaining profit. The pursuit of individual happiness created greed and selfishness.