Industrial Rev. I
Great Britain
He invented the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned.
Capitalism
New farm machines benefitted these people.
Wealthy landowners with a lot of land.
Prior to unification, Italy was controlled by these 3 states.
Austria, Catholic Church, and France
Small-scale production done by hand IN THE HOME
Cottage industry
He created the water frame.
Edmund Cartwright
Marxist Socialist was eventually called...
Communism
Land in a town or village that anyone could use to farm, hunt
Commons
He is credited with unifying northern Italy.
Count Cavour
The reason why Great Britain was a good place for industrialization to begin.
There was a great deal of coal and iron ore.
He developed a process for making steel.
Henry Bessemer
Karl Marx said these people were the oppressed working class.
Proletariat
Agricultural economies were based on this.
The family unit
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
He led Prussia in the unification of the German states.
Name two negative effects of the industrial revolution.
Pollution, crime, disease, over crowding, tenements, poor living conditions, poor sanitation
He improved the steam engine.
James Watt
Karl Marx is considered to be the father of ________________.
Communism
The process of people moving into cities is called...
Urbanization
The name William I of Prussia took when he became the ruler of a unified Germany.
Name one result of the Enclosure Movement
Many poor, landless farmers out of work; many became factory workers
What did Edward Jenner create?
The smallpox vaccine
He defended the free-market system of capitalism in the book, The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
Describe working conditions in factories during the Industrial Revolution.
Dangerous, low pay, long hours, could be fired at any time, child labor, etc.
What is Realpolitik?
Politics based on reality; practical matters