Vocab - Industrial Revolutions Flashcards
Steam engine
External combustion engine where heat is used to raise steam
British textile industry
initial technological breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century Britain, where innovations transformed cotton textile production
Middle class society
people who had more education and professional skills, and who often worked in white-collar jobs
Ideology of domesticity
the home and charitable activities as the proper sphere for women, while paid employment and public life was for men
Karl Marx
German writer and economist who founded modern socialism
Labor party
British working-class dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism
Socialism in the US
a small political party movement in the United States that supported the theory of social organization in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community
Progressives
Reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way the government works
Russian revolution of 1905
uprising that convinced the attempt of the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy
Caudilos
Independent military leaders with large personal followings
Latin American export boom
the large-scale increase in Latin American exports
Mexican revolution
War in which Mexican reformers from the middle class joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the dictator and create more democratic political order
Dependent development
Term used to describe Latin America’s economic growth in the nineteenth century, which was largely financed by foreign capital and dependent on other nations
