AP Euro Romanticism/Industrial Revolution/Concert of Europe

Jehro Tull

Seed drill

Hargreaves

Spinning Jenny

Arkwright

Water Frame

Eli Whitney

Cotton Gin

Thomas Newcomen

First steam engine

James Watt

Improved steam engine

John Kay

Flying Shuttle

Samuel Crompton

Mule (Spinning Machine)

Edmund Cartwright

Power loom

George Stephenson

“The Rocket” very fast locomotive. 16 miles/hour in 1830 and 50 miles/hour in 1850

Thomas Malthus

Wrote Essay on Population. He argued that population growth would outpace food supply. Preventative checks: Restraint, have less children.
Positive checks: nature will take care of it: wars, famine, disease…

David Ricardo

Wrote Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Came up with “Iron law of wages”: When wages are up, workers have children. These children replace them, leading to lower wages.

Adam Smith

Wrote Wealth of nations. “Laissez-faire”: Governments does not interfere in the economy. Capitalism

Richard Cobden And John Bright

Members of the Mancheser School of Economics (along with Adam Smith). Support capitalism, anti-corn law league.

Robert Peel

Created law enforcement, “Bobbies” (cops).

Frederick List

German who support Zollverein, the tax-free union in all 33 states of Germany. Also supported same train tracks in all of Germany

Sammuel Caleridge

Wrote Rhyme of the ancient marines. Also wrote Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

Wrote “Daffodils”, as well as Lyrical Ballads with Sammuel Caleridge

William Blake

Songs of Innocence (Lamb) and Songs of experience (Tyger)

Lord Byron (big three)

“She Walks In Beauty”.

Percy Shelley (big three)

“Ozymandias”

John Keats (big three)

“Ode to a Grecian Urn”

Mary Shelley

Frankeinstein, the Modern Prometheus

Victor Hugo

Wrote Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Les Miserables

Alexander Dumas

Wrote Three Musketeers, The Man In the Iron Mask, and The Count of Monte Cristo

George Sand (real name is Amandine Dupin)

Wrote Leila, as well as over 80 novels with romantic social themes.

Eugene Delacroix

“Liberty Leading The People” and “Death of Sardanapalus”

Theodore Gericault

“Raft of The Medusa”

John Turner

Painted on the tumultuous aspect nature

John Constable

Painted on the calm side of nature