Key inventions
Made by Alexander Graham Bell, this device revolutionized communication
What was the Telephone?
Created the water frame
Who was Richard Arkwright?
This is an association fighting for the rights of workers...
What is a union?
He introduced the idea of communism in his book, The Communist Manifesto...
Who was Karl Marx?
The system of growing a different crop in a field each year.
What is crop rotation ?
This machine powered the spinning jenny by using "liquid"
What was the water frame?
Invented the spinning jenny
Who was James Hagreaves?
This is when employees stop working to protest unfair labor practices, unequal wages, etc...
What is a strike?
He introduced the idea of capitalism in his work called The Wealth of Nations...
Who is Adam Smith?
Large buildings in which machinery is used to manufacture goods.
What are factories?
Invented by James Hargreaves. Helped expand the textile industry. This machine could do the work of 10+ people and made textiles cheaper to produce.
What was the spinning Jenny?
Invented the steam engine
Who was James watt?
This social class was created during the IR due to the increase of migration into cities and the emergence of factories...
Who are the working (middle) class?
Owners can use THIS, effectively "locking" the doors to their businesses and forcing employees to negotiate...
What is a lockout?
The growth of cities and the migration of people into them was called...
What is urbanization?
This term describe the large field that wealthy landowners acquired when small time farmers sold off their lands and "fenced in" the large plots of land...
What is an enclosure?
Worked along with William Kelly to make a cheaper and faster way to make steel; Created the Bessemer process
Who was Henry Bessemer?
This is the term used by Karl Marx to describe the working class of citizens...
What is the proletariat?
Land, labor and capital...
What are factors of production?
An economic system which the means of production (all land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses) would be owned by the people. All goods and service would be shared equally and all private property would cease to exist.
What is communism?
Perfected by James Watt. Were used with locomotive trains and steamboats. Made it much easier to transport resources and raw materials.
What was the steam engine?
Prussian journalist who was an important critic of capitalism. He believed that all great changes in history came from changes in economic conditions. Known as the father of communism
Who was Karl Marx?
What is steel?
What is collective bargaining?
This terms refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without government interference.
What is laissez-faire?