Social Science 2
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- Karl Marx
- Socialism, communism, The Communist Manifesto, classless society, wealth and prosperity owned by community as a whole
- Robert Owen
- Socialism, refuses to use child labor, campaigns for laws against child labor, treat employees well and run profitable business
- Charles Townshend
- encouraged farmers to grow turnips to restore bad soil
- Robert Fulton
- uses steam engine to power the "Clermont"
- George Stephenson
- Steam-Powered Locomotives
- Richard Arkwright
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Water Frame
used water power to speed up spinning - David Ricardo
- Laissez-Faire, "iron law of wages", no gov't help for poor, improve conditions by thrift, hard work, and limiting size of family
- James Hargreaves
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Spinning Jenny
spun many threads at the same time - enclosure
- taking over and fencing in land for pastures
- Luddites
- Rioters who fought against the machines that cost them jobs
- capital
- wealth to invest in business
- Adam Smith
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Lassiez Faire economics (Leave it alone)
free market: produce more goods at lower prices - Thomas Malthus
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Laissez -Faire, population will outpace the food supply
urged people to have fewer children - Socialism
- people as a whole rather than individuals own all property and operate businesses, develop a world for the benefit of all
- Utilitarianism
- the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greates number of people
- proletariat
- working class, the "have-nots" under communism
- Methodism
- A new religious movement of the mid-1700s
- urbanization
- A movement of people to cities
- James Watt
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Steam power
Father of the Industrial Revolution - Jethro Tull
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seed drill
deposited seeds in a row - turnpike
- privately built roads that charged money to people who traveled on it
- Communism
- Karl Marx, class struggle in which wealth and property is owned by community as a whole
- John Wesley
- Founded the Methodist Church
- John Stuart Mill
- Utilitarian, gov't should step in to improve lives of working class, give vote to workers and women, reforms in child labor, public health
- Jeremy Bentham
- Utilitarian, greatest happiness for greatest number of people,
- factory
- places that brought together workers and machines to produce large amounts of goods