Important Leaders
Dominated steel industry through vertical integration
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
These organizations wanted better working conditions and wages
What are labor unions?
What is a steam engine?
When people would switch from rural to urban areas
What is urbanization?
An agricultural movement that allowed Britain to increase the food production in the 18th century
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Controlled the oil industry using monopolies
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
During protests, workers would use this method to express themselves
What is a strike?
Made by Alexander Bell, it allowed a new communication system
What is a telephone?
This class would appear between the working classes and upper class
What is the middle class?
An economic policy that supported investments in factories
What is capitalism?
Invented the light bulb, motion picture camera, and etc creating modern electrical systems
Who is Thomas Edison?
Often employed young workers during 1st Revolution
Who are children?
Seperated cotton from fibers, made by Eli Whitney
What is a cotton gin?
Overcrowded housing, was considered poor urban housing conditions.
What are tenements?
Allowing people to work in factories because of population growth
What is labor supply?
Wrote the "Wealth of Nations" addressing capitalism
Who is Adam Smith?
Workers gained these rights through the government
What are labor laws?
This replaced the flying shuttle and reduced the number of weavers.
What is a power loom?
What is socialism?
Goods were made for sales in global markets
What is global market economy?
German philosopher who wrote The Communist Manifesto
Who is Karl Marx?
Government shouldn't interfere with working rights or business
What is laissez-faire?
Used to make steel
What is the Bessemer process?
These laws limited the amount of working hours and the conditions for workers
What are labor reform laws?
A series of major conflicts that lasted from 1803 to 1815 and gave Britain peace
What were the Napoleonic Wars?