terms & names of industrial revolution Flashcards
Alexander Graham Bell
telephone//improved communication
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Steel Company//controlled steel production
Cyrus McCormick
reaper//increased wheat production
Eli Whitney
cotton gin//multiplied cotton production and cleaning
Elizabeth Gaskell
wrote Mary Borton/novelist//showed problems in city for sympathy
Francis Lowell
made machines for every part of textile production//increase of cloth production
I.M. Singer
improved sewing machine//faster production in textile industry
James Hargreaves
spinning jenny//faster weaving and increased thread storage
James Watt
steam engine//more efficient work
John D. Rockefeller
founded standard oil//created jobs and economics
John Kay
shuttle on wheels to weave//increased production in textile industry
Matthew Boulton
entrepreneur who helped Watt//efficient work
Moses Brown
first factory in America//work done faster
Robert Fulton
used steam engine to make steamboat//increased trade
Samuel Crompton
spinning mule//stronger thread
Samuel F.B. Morse
telegraph//faster long distance communication
Samuel Slater
spinning machine in America//beginning of US industrialism
William Cockeril
spinning machine in belgium//spread of industrialization
Adam Smith
wrote the wealth of nations and defended free markets
socialism
economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operated for the welfare of all
Karl Marx
German journalist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels
communism
for of complete socialism in which means of production would be owned by the people and private property would cease to exist
unions
voluntary associations of workers who pressed for reforms
Wilberforce
led the fight for abolition in british parliament
Jane Addams
established a settlement house in Chicago for the aid of women
Luddites
group of unemployed cottage workers attacked the machine that put them out of business
