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Enclosure movement

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The process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers

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Smelt

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Separating iron from its ore

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Capital

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Money used to invest in enterprises

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Enterprise

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A business organization in an area such as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories

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Turnpike

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Private roads built by entrepreneurs who charged travelers a toll to use them

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Putting out system

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Cottage industry

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Urbanization and what caused it

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The movement of people to cities. Changes in farming, soaring population, and increasing demand for workers

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Tenement

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Multistory buildings divided into apartments

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Labor union and their goals

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Workers organizations. Wanted workers rights

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Luddite movement

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Smashed textile machines with sledgehammers and burned factories

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Methodism

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Rekindling hope among the poor and forgiveness and a better life to come

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Utilitarianism

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Goal of society should be “greatest happiness for the greatest number”

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Socialism

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System in which people as a whole rather than private individuals own and operate the means of production

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Communism

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System in which governments led by a small elite controlled all economic and political life

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Proletariat

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Working class

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Social democracy

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A political ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism

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Dynamo

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A machine that generates electricity

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Bessemer process

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A new process of making steel from iron

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Anesthetic

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A drug that prevents pain during surgery

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Impressionism

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School of painting that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions

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Jethro Tull

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Invented the seed drill

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Thomas Newcomen

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Invented the steam engine

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Eli Whitney

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Invented the cotton gin

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James Hargreaves

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Invented the spinning jenny

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Richard Arkwright

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Invented the water frame

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John Kay

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Invented the flying shuttle

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James Watt

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Improved Newcomen’s steam engine

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John Wesley

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Founded the methodist movement

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Adam Smith

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Capitalism

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Thomas Malthus

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Population would increase faster than the food supply

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David Ricardo

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Laissez-faire economist

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Jeremy Bentham

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Advocated utilitarianism

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John Stewart Mill

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Individual freedom with government involvement

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Robert Owen

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Set up a socialist community

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Karl Marx

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Scientific socialism, haves and have nots

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Friedrich Engels

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Teamed up with Marx

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William Cockerill

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Opened factories in Belgium manufacturing spinning and weaving machines

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Robert Fulton

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Invented the steamboat

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Henry Bessemer

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Bessemer process

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Alfred Nobel

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Invented dynamite

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Alessandro Volta

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Developed the first battery

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Michael Faraday

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Invented the dynamo

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Thomas Edison

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Invented the lightbulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera

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Nikolaus Otto

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Invented the internal combustion machine

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Karl Benz

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First automobile with three wheels

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Gottlieb Daimler

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First four wheel automobile

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Henry Ford

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Utilized the assembly line

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Wilber and Orville Wright

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Made an airplane

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Samuel Morse

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Invented the telegraph

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Invented the telephone

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Invented the radio

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John D. Rockefeller

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Standard Oil Company

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Louis Pasteur

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Showed the link between microbes and disease

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Robert Koch

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Identified bacterium that cause tuberculosis

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Florence Nightingale

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World’s first school of nursing

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Joseph Lister

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How antiseptics prevent infection

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John Dalton

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Modern atomic theory

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Dmitri Mendeleyev

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Periodic table of elements

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Charles Lyell

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Offered evidence that earth formed over millions of years

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Charles Darwin

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Evolution, survival of the fittest, natural selection

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Lord Bryon

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Larger than life figure

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Victor Hugo

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Three Musketeers and Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Beethoven

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Nine symphonies, many minor works

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Charles Dickens

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Oliver Twist, portrayed lives of the working class

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Claude Monet

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Painted one scene and then the same one at a different time of year

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Edgar Degas

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Brushed strokes of color side by side without blending

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Georges Seurat

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Pointilism

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Vincent van Gogh

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Dreamlike quality

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Industrial Revolution

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Period of change (second agricultural revolution)

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