Industrial Revolution Vocab Practice

Wrote Wealth of Nations; an advocate for capitalism

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

• William Harvey

• Eli Whitney

Means "hands-off"; used to describes the level of government involvement in capitalist economies (which is not a lot)

• Urbanization

• Laissez-faire

• Strikes

• Labor unions

Studied bacteria and developed pasteurization

• Edward Jenner

• Eli Whitney

• James Watt

• Louis Pasteur

Economic system in which all means of production are owned in common (usually by a gov't) rather than by individuals; more gov't regulation of economy in this system

• Capitalism

• Communism

Developed the smallpox vaccine

• Karl Marx

• Henry Bessemer

• Edward Jenner

• James Hargreaves

Developed the steel-making process

• Henry Bessemer

• James Watt

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

When employees refuse to work to protest their dissatisfaction with working conditions, wages, hours, etc.

• Labor unions

• Strikes

• Urbanization

• Collective bargaining

Invented the cotton gin

• James Watt

• James Hargreaves

• Henry Bessemer

• Eli Whitney

Author of the Communist Manifesto; developed the theory of communism

• Karl Marx

• Friedrich Engels

• Adam Smith

• Edward Jenner

Negotiations between workers and their employers; typically about wages, hours worked, or working conditions

• Labor unions

• Collective bargaining

• Urbanization

• Strikes