Vocabulary
Shares of ownership in a corporation.
What are Stocks
Invented the cotton gin that separated the seeds from raw cotton at a fast rate.
Who is Eli Whitney
German philosopher who condemned Utopian ideas and came up scientific socialism.
Who is Karl Marx
The movement of people to cities.
What is Urbanization
Wrote the poem London.
Who is William Blake
Business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investment.
What is a Corporation
Improved the steam engine in the late 1700s.
Who is James Watt
A system in which the people as a whole, rather than individuals, own all property and operate businesses.
What is Socialism
Workers’ organizations.
What are Labor Unions
Artistic style that sought to capture the first fleeting impression made by a scene or object.
What is Impressionism
Money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise.
What is Capital
To remove iron from its ore.
What is smelt
The belief that one racial group is superior to another.
What is Racism
Advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement
Artistic style emphasized imagination, freedom, and emotion. Simple and direct language, intense feelings, and a glorification of nature.
What is Romanticism
A business organization in such areas as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories.
What is an Enterprise
A drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist.
What is Anesthetic
African American suffragist and abolitionist.
Who is Sojourner Truth
Reform movement concerned with voting rights.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement
Artistic style that attempts to show the world as it is.
What is Realism
Another name for the working class.
What is Proletariat
A private toll road.
Utopian socialist who set up a model community in New Lanark, Scotland.
Who is Robert Owen
Movement of the 1800s that urged Christians to do social services.
What is Social Gospel
Rebuilding poor areas of a city.
What is Urban Renewal