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Thomas Malthus
British economist
Liverpool
Starting point for the world’s first major rail line
Robert Owen
Utopian thinker
Anesthetic
Drug that prevents pain
Enterprise
A business in an area like shipping, mining etc
Socialism
A way of living between communism and democracy
Tenement
Multi-story Buildings
Proletariat
Working class
Smelt
Separate iron from its core
Eli Whitney
Guy who invented the machine the cotton gin
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher and economist
Manchester
Ending point for the world’s first major rail line
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Enclosure
The process of giving back land that was taken away from people
Entrepreneur
Person who started a new business on their own
Utilitarianism
The idea that the goal for society is to maximize happiness for the greatest number of people
Urbanization
Movement of people to the cities
Communism
Government where only one person rules the whole government
James Watt
Scottish engineer
Putting-out-system
AKA the cottage industry
Means of production
Farms, mines etc that produce the things that we need
Labor union
Workers organization
Social democracy
political ideology
Capital
Money used to invest in enterprises
Turnpike
Private roads built by entrepreneurs who let people use them for a fee