Influential People During this Time
Inventions and Inventors
Government and Literature
Terms
Women Movements
100
Author of "Wealth of the Nations" and was known as the "father of economics and Capitalism".
Who was Adam Smith?
100
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Grambell?
100
Means to leave alone or to allow to do in French; it’s a economic and political doctrine that states that economies function at their best when unencumbered by the government regulation.
What is Laissez Faire?
100
The view of a perfect society is only obtainable if everyone cooperates.
What are Utopians?
100
Rights given to women that allow them to vote, be equal to men, not suffering as they slave over a hot stove and clean the house, living as servants to their husbands.
What is Women's Suffrage?
200
Was a popular English novelist of the Victorian era; wrote "Great Expectations".
Who is Charles Dickens?
200
Invented the process of pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pastuer?
200
Emphasized the glorification of the middle ages, an age of Kings and Queens, knights and chivalry; was a reaction to the cold, logical rationalism of the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
200
Refers to a society that contains cultural diversity and large inhuman social institutions.
What is Mass Society?
200
Movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor.
What was the Temperance Movement?
300
Former owner of a cotton mill; social reformer; founder of Utopian socialism.
Who was Robert Owen?
300
Made in 1800 by Humphry Davy.
What is the incandescent light bulb?
300
A political ideology that emerged from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means.
What is Social Democracy?
300
Were British artisans who protested against mechanized looms; they would usually destroy the machines.
Who were the Luddites?
300
In 1840, between 100 and 300 people at Seneca Falls, New York, led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Candy Stanton.
What was the first women's rights convention?
400
Developed theories Geometrically and Arithmetically; author of the "Essay on population".
Who is Thomas Malthus?
400
First successful flying model propelled by an internal combustion engine.
What was the first airplane?
400
Criticism in literature; one of the critical lenses that discusses Human consciousness in any era is constituted by an ideology-that is, a set of concepts, beliefs, values, and ways of thinking and feeling through which human beings perceive, and by which they explain what they take to be reality.
What is Marxism?
400
Ideas of modern economics and individual freedom; argues that free economy(Laissez faire) is more beneficial and productive to a society.
What is the “Wealth of Nations”
400
Blamed the Bible and Christianity as the cause of women suppression.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
500
Campaign for social and political reforms in all areas, most notably the criminal law, had its theoretical basis in his utilitarianism, expounded in his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
Who was Jeremy Bentham?
500
Invented and and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas.
Who is Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir?
500
Attempted to reduce decision-making about human actions to a "felicific calculus" by weighing the profit, convenience, advantage, and happiness that would ensue from the action against the, disadvantage, inconvenience, loss, and unhappiness that it would also entail.
What is Utilitarianism?
500
Basic idea of overpopulation, stating that we will eventually will have a population so large, that we wont be able to provide enough resources.
What ii the “Essay on Population”?
500
Founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869 with life-long friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Together they worked for women's suffrage for over 50 years.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
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