Unit 3 Test Flashcards
James Hargreave
Invented The Spinning Jenny
Spinning Jenny
Multi-spool spinning wheel that reduces the time to produce textiles
Richard Arkwright
Invented the Water Frame
Water Frame
Used power to drive a number of spinning machines
Abraham Darby
Made advances in using coke to produce less expensive iron at their Coalbrookedale iron works
Henry Cort
Improved the process of iron making to produce wrought iron
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker that invented the steam engine
Matthew Boulton
Made the steam engine a commercial success
Richard Trevithick
Desligues the steam engine that was lighted than Watt’s
Could be used to power a locomotive
William Hedley
Invented “Puffing Billy”
Used to haul coal along an iron flanged track
George Stephenson
“Father of the Railroads”
Work in building railroads between Liverpool and Manchester in 1830
Created “Rocket”
Was the first modern locomotive to be used on a railway line
L&MR
Liverpool and Manchester Railroad
Had Stephenson’s rocket
Robert Fitch
First successful steam boat
Robert Fulton
Made the steam boat a commercial success
Samuel Morse
Proved hat signals could be carried by pulses of current down a wire
Limited liability act of 1856
Allowed shareholders in companies with more than 25 investors to risk only the amount they had invested
Laissez faire
An economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without gov. Intervention
Capitalism
An economic system in which money is invested in business ventures with the goal of making a profit
Adam smith
A professor of Glasgow University who wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776
Capitalism
Utilitarianism
A philosophy arguing that people should judge ideas, institutions and actions in the basis of utility or usefulness
Jeremy Bentham
Utilitarianism
Socialism
Economic system in which major factors of production are owned by the public and operated for the benefit of all
Communism
Economic system in which all factors of production are owned by the public and operated for the benefit of all. Private property ceases to exist
Karl Marx
German journalist and philosopher who authored Das Kapital, which was the major economic rationale for communism
Friedrich Engels
Son of a German factory owner in Manchester, England. With Marx, he co-authored The Communist Manifesto
William Wilberforce
Highly religious member of Parliament, tried repeatedly to pass bills through parliament outlawing slavery
The factory act of 1833
Made it illegal to hire children under nine years old and limited work hours for older children
The 1842 mines act
Prevented women and children from working underground
10 hours act of 1847
Limited the workday
Jane Addams
Set up Hull House in Chicago for poor working women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Raised awareness of issues with their Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Horace Mann
Head of the newly created Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, promoted public education for all children
Giuseppi Mazzini
Italian patriot and idealist
Organize a nationalist group called young Italy
Participated in the 1848 revolutions
Went into exile when those revolutions failed
Camilo di Cavour
prime minister of Piedmont Sardinia. Accomplished the independence of northern Italy by receiving help from France to oust Austria from most of northern Italy
Giuseppe Garibaldi
A hero of the Italian “Risorgimento”
Fought in defense of Rome
Lead an army of his red shirts to victories against the armies of the bourbon kingdoms of the two Sicilies
Brought them under the rule of a constitutional monarch
Wilhelm I
Reformed and double the size of the Prussian army
Faced opposition to military spending by his liberal parliament
Otto von Bismarck
Appointed as Welhelm’s prime minister
Is a master of realistic power politics (realpolitik)
Started to roll without the consent of Parliament and without a legal budget
John Stuart Mill
Socialism
Church
Romanticism
Delacroix
Romanticism
Beethoven
Romanticism
Hugo
Romanticism
Goya
Romanticism
Gericault
Romanticism
Daumier
Realism
Millet
Realism
Eakins
Realism
Monet
Impressionism
Van Gogh
Impressionism
Cezanne
Impressionism
Renoir
Impressionism