Unit 8: Industrial Revolution Vocab

Wrote "Wealth of Nations"; an advocate for capitalism and laissez-faire economics

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Friedrich Engels

• Edward Jenner

Studied bacteria and developed the theory of pasteurization.

• Henry Bessemer

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

• James Watt

Developed the smallpox vaccine

• Henry Bessemer

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

• James Watt

Developed the steel-making process

• Henry Bessemer

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

• James Watt

Invented the cotton gin

• James Watt

• James Hargreaves

• Louis Pasteur

• Eli Whitney

Author of the Communist Manifesto; developed the theory of communism.

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Friedrich Engels

• Edward Jenner

Co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Marx.

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Friedrich Engels

• Edward Jenner

Made improvements to the steam engine

• James Watt

• Eli Whitney

• Henry Bessemer

• James Hargreaves

Invented the spinning jenny.

• James Watt

• Eli Whitney

• Henry Bessemer

• James Hargreaves

Economic system involving open competition between businesses in a free market with less government regulation; businesses/the means of production are owned by private individuals

• communism

• socialism

• capitalism

• absolutism