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26 Cards in this Set
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Karl Marx
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Socialism, communism, The Communist Manifesto, classless society, wealth and prosperity owned by community as a whole
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Robert Owen
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Socialism, refuses to use child labor, campaigns for laws against child labor, treat employees well and run profitable business
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Charles Townshend
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encouraged farmers to grow turnips to restore bad soil
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Robert Fulton
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uses steam engine to power the "Clermont"
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George Stephenson
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Steam-Powered Locomotives
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Richard Arkwright
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Water Frame
used water power to speed up spinning |
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David Ricardo
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Laissez-Faire, "iron law of wages", no gov't help for poor, improve conditions by thrift, hard work, and limiting size of family
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James Hargreaves
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Spinning Jenny
spun many threads at the same time |
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enclosure
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taking over and fencing in land for pastures
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Luddites
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Rioters who fought against the machines that cost them jobs
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capital
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wealth to invest in business
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Adam Smith
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Lassiez Faire economics (Leave it alone)
free market: produce more goods at lower prices |
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Thomas Malthus
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Laissez -Faire, population will outpace the food supply
urged people to have fewer children |
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Socialism
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people as a whole rather than individuals own all property and operate businesses, develop a world for the benefit of all
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Utilitarianism
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the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greates number of people
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proletariat
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working class, the "have-nots" under communism
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Methodism
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A new religious movement of the mid-1700s
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urbanization
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A movement of people to cities
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James Watt
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Steam power
Father of the Industrial Revolution |
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Jethro Tull
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seed drill
deposited seeds in a row |
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turnpike
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privately built roads that charged money to people who traveled on it
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Communism
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Karl Marx, class struggle in which wealth and property is owned by community as a whole
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John Wesley
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Founded the Methodist Church
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John Stuart Mill
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Utilitarian, gov't should step in to improve lives of working class, give vote to workers and women, reforms in child labor, public health
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Jeremy Bentham
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Utilitarian, greatest happiness for greatest number of people,
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factory
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places that brought together workers and machines to produce large amounts of goods
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