Chapter Five Flashcards
Enclosure Movement
-Land becomes more expensive as the population grows
-people are forced to move to cities
Social Issues
Sanitation
Overcrowding/overpopulation
expensive
pollution
disease and rats
Proletariat
Landless working class
- no voting rights/ safety net
James Hargreaves
Creates the spinning jenny
- turns cotton into thread
- gives women factory jobs
Richard Arkwright
operates the spinning jenny using water power
- puts women out of jobs that they were previosly given
Eli Whitney
Invents cotton gin
Thomas Newsomen
creates the 1st steam engine
James Watt
Masters the steam engine
George Stephenson
Creates the 1st steam locomotive
Socialism
reallocation of wealth; welfare to support the poor; businesses, social classes, and private property remain;
Communist Manifesto
written by Friedrich Engles and Karl Marx
Communism
workers revolution to end social classes, wealth and private property
Nationalism
(sometimes extreme) devotion to the state based on common bonds
Romaticism
cultural movement that stresses emotion, passion, heroism
Eugene Delacroix
liberty leading the people (painting)