Inventions
This engine powered trains, ships, and factories during the First Industrial Revolution.
Steam Engine
Inventor of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
This economist wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
A system based on government control of resources and markets. Calls for the complete abolition of private ownership.
Communism
The process of people moving from farms to cities for jobs.
urbanization
The Second Industrial Revolution saw the rise of this engine, which powered cars.
Internal Combustion Engine
Inventor of the steam engine (for trains)
James Watt
The belief that government should keep its “hands off” business.
laissez-faire
Workers stopped working in protest of poor conditions.
Strike
Overcrowded apartment buildings for the working class.
tenements
Thomas Edison invented this device that could record and play sound.
Phonograph
Inventor of the first telephone
Alexander Bell
This system is based on private ownership and profit.
Capitalism
These organizations were formed by workers to demand better pay and conditions.
labor unions
constantly living amongst waste caused the spread of what?
disease
These man-made materials, such as plastics and dyes, became common in the Second Industrial Revolution.
Synthetics
Inventor of the process for mass producing steel
Henry Bessemer
The money or assets used to invest in a business.
Capital
Karl Marx name for class of wealthy business owners
Bourgeoise
The 1858 sanitation crisis in London caused by sewage in the Thames River.
Great Stink
This structure, built for the 1889 World’s Fair, symbolized industrial progress.
Eiffel Tower
Inventor of the Diesel engine
Rudolf Diesel
According to Karl Marx, this determines the value of a product.
Labor theory of value
The working class who labored in factories.
Proletariat
These areas outside city centers grew as middle-class families moved away from pollution.
suburbs