Industrial Revolution (Part 1)

This man is given credit for creating the most practical and improved steam engine, which would drive the Industrial Revolution.

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• James Watt

• Eli Whitney

This is the laissez-faire, economic system in which people invest their own strength (money, effort, time) into business/economic pursuits in order to defeat the competition and make a personal profit.

• Communism

• Socialism

• Utopianism

• Capitalism

Gaining a larger population during the Industrial Revolution, this group of small-business owners and skilled workers showed a rise in the possible living standards of the time.

• Middle Class

• Lower Class

• Upper Class

• Bourgeoisie

This revolutionary thinker is the primary founder of the communist ideas for economics and believed the common worker would one day control society to end inequality.

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• James Watt

• Eli Whitney

This represents the transformation from manual labor to mechanized production that began in England in the latter 18th century.

• Industrialization

• The Great Transition

• The Glorious Revolution

• Imperialism

This term refers to the mass movement of people from rural areas to cities, which notably happened during the Industrial Revolution.

• Urbanization

• Deurbanization

• Ruralization

• Deruraliztion

Beginning during the Industrial Revolution, this is a group of laborers who come together in order to oppose the poor conditions forced upon them by employers.

• Labor Union

• Entrepreneur

• Capitalists

• Utopianisms

This economist is known as one of the primary founders of capitalism, writing about economics in his book, The Wealth of Nations.

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• James Watt

• Eli Whitney

Relevant to laissez faire, this idea applied the scientific theory of “survival of the fittest” to culture and was a defense for imperialism and capitalism.

• Social Darwinism

• humanitarianism

• progressiveness

• Social Marxism

Involving better farming methods and the enclosures of public lands, this event resulted in more food for society, as well as, laborers seeking employment in city factories.

• Agricultural Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

• Glorious Revolution

• Avocado Revolution