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Putting out system
production method; merchants gave raw materials to workers who made goods in their home
Turnpikes
Toll roads owned by private companies
Henry Bessemer
invented bessemer process for making steel (2nd industrial revolution) SKY SCRAPERS + revolutionized railroad
Dynamo
machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy
Corporation
Business organization that is legally recognized as a separate entity from its owner allowing it to own property, enter contracts, and issue stock
Louis pasteur
Pasteurization: process of heating food or liquid to specific temp to kill harmful germs
Florence Nightingale
British nurse + social reformer, known as founder of modern nursing
Urban Renewal
process of redeveloping + improving deteriorating city areas, rebuilding infrastructure
cult of domesticity
idealized women’s role as home makers and moral guardians of families
Temperance Movement
Social camping that advocated for reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption
Sojourner Truth
African American abolitionist + women’s right activist, fought for freedom, equality, and justice
Social gospel
religious movement that emphasized applying christian ethics to social problems like poverty and inequality
Ultitarianism
Philosophy, a actions should be judge based on where they produce the greatest good for the greatest number
Socialism
Government owns + controls production and distribution of goods to ensure quality and meet peoples needs, SETS WAGES AND PRICES & OWNS MAJOR INDUSTRIES, LIMITED CLASS DISTINCTION (ultarianism)
Karl Marx
Co-developed marxism: classes society (communism) and abolition of private ownership over the means of production
communism
Government owns all property and means of production and gives people there Bare minimum (classes society) (marxism)
Proletariat
Working class
burgeoisie
Middle class (factory owners, merchants, professionals)
Adam Smith
Laissez faire economics
John Kay
invented the flying shuttle, step toward automatic weaving (TEXTILE INDUSTRY)
James Heagreaves
Invented the spinning Jenny, multiple spinning machines 1 could spin many threads at a time
Richard Arkwright
Invented water frame that was powered by the waterwheel, 1st fully automatic +continuously operating spinning machine
Robert Fulton
Invented the steam boat
Richard Trevithick
Invented worlds 1st steam railway