Big Business
Those who manage and assume monetary risk for a new business.
What are entrepreneurs?
or
What are capitalists?
This refers to the movement of people to cities
What is urbanization?
This device separated seeds from raw cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This economist felt capitalism created riches for a few while leaving many in poverty and advocated for Communism as an alternative.
Who is Karl Marx?
A method of producing cloth in individual homes.
What is the putting out system?
or
What is cottage industry?
These represent partial ownership in a corporation and can be bought and sold by investors.
What are stocks?
This group owned the factories and lived in large homes in cities.
What is the middle class?
He helped develop the lightbulb, modern research laboratory, phonograph, and early cameras.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Steam power enabled this mode of transportation to prosper thanks to pioneer George Stephenson.
What are railroads?
Those living in tenements in industrial cities were a part of this class.
What is the working class?
Larger farms were created in the 1600s and 1700s because this movement that ended most common land in England.
What is the Enclosure movement?
This refers to an apartment for the working class.
What is a tenement?
This inventor helped make surgeries safer through antiseptics.
Who is Joseph Lister?
Elisha Graves Otis demonstrated this machine that allowed buildings to soar in height.
He felt disease and famine was a natural means of population control.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
The Sadler Report was created to investigate this type of labor.
What is child labor?
In contrast with 'Captains of Industry,' this term was used disparagingly towards wealthy industrialists.
What are 'Robber Barons'?
If you lived outside the city center, you might take one of these to get downtown in the 1800s.
What is a trolley?
He pioneered AC current electricity among other inventions.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Samuel Morse invented this device that could send messages with beeps.
What is the telegraph?
This group -- Robert Owen among them -- established communities where all work is shared and all property is owned in common.
Who are Utopians? (Utopian Socialists)
This refers to a private toll road, built by investors in the 1800s.
What is a turnpike?
During the 1800s the landscape of Paris was changed through the work of this architect.
Who is Georges-Eugène Haussmann?
As a nurse in the Crimean war, she advocated for more sanitary conditions for hospitals and 'invented' the first modern school for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
In the 1800s these drugs to prevent pain during surgery were invented.
What is an anesthesia?
This British philosopher supported utilitarianism, influenced John Stuart Mills.
Who was Jeremy Bentham?
These people went around with masks smashing equipment in factories.
What are Luddites?