5.2: Nationalism & Revolutions, 1750-1900
Former slave and eventual Haitian general who led the Haitian Revolution
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
Two major inventions that reduced the time needed to spin yarn and weave cloth.
What is the spinning jenny and the water frame?
Control of specific business with no or eliminated competition.
What is a monopoly?
Organizations of workers have power in the overall say of the company, particularly in the safety and pay of the workers' lives.
What is a labor union?
Areas in cities that housed those low-income families where tenements were located. The water and whatnot were very typically polluted.
What is a slum?
Became emperor of France after the revolution.
Inventor and person who came up with the idea of interchangeable parts to speed up the process of industrialization.
Who is Eli Whitney?
People would be allowed to buy a portion of a company and receive money back if the company performed well.
What is the stock?
Reformers worked hard in the last half of the 19th century to improve conditions for this group of workers.
What are child labor laws?
Because of large factories, this was a result of the Industrial Revolution.
What is large amounts of smoke and fog?
The period during which the government executed thousands of opponents of the revolution, including the King and Queen of France.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Father of the factory system.
Who was Richard Arkwright?
Due to an increase in free time and an increase of money in the middle/upper-class British people, this increased.
What is consumerism?
Co-publisher of The Communist Manifesto and a wealthy supporter of Karl Marx.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
He believed that people were born with three natural rights: life, liberty, and property
Who is John Locke?
Person who can be credited with taking ideas from John Locke and turning them into ideas that are part of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A movement the British government created to make land exclusive to the people paying for it.
What is the enclosure movement?
Person who believed in theories of laissez-faire capitalism and free markets.
Who is Adam Smith?
Group of people who were the working class in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Who are the proletariat?
Typical amount of hours for a factory worker during the industrial revolution
14 hour workday
The French Revolutionaries' Slogan
What is liberté, égalité, et fraternité (liberty, equality, and fraternity)?
Based upon the ideas of interchangeable parts, factory owners in England would rely on each worker focusing on one type of task in the factory.
What is the system of specialization of labor?
The belief is that a nation's true wealth is based upon gold bullion and the amount of resources it takes from its colonies.
What is mercantilism?
The belief that after socialism had replaced capitalism, this would replace socialism.
What is Communism?
Who were the industrialists and factory owners?