145530893 | Edison | -became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world's first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey -Perfected light bulb, later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power. -1847-1931 -patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp, the microphone, and the kinetoscope. | 0 | |
145530894 | Victorian Age | -Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society, with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people -height of British Empire | 1 | |
145530895 | "Separate Spheres" | Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women, especially of the middle class, should have different roles in society: women as wives, mothers, and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics | 2 | |
145530896 | Socialism | -An economic system in which government owns some factors of production and participates in answering economic questions. It offers some security and benefits to those who are less fortunate, homeless, or under-employed -system in which the people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all businesses | 3 | |
145530897 | Labor Unions | An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade, created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers. | 4 | |
145530898 | Karl Marx | German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary. With the help and support of Friedrich Engels he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894). These works explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form the basis of all communist theory, and have had a profound influence on the social sciences. | 5 | |
145530899 | Anarchist | person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority | 6 | |
145530900 | Shipping Line | company that offered fast, punctual, and reliable service on a fixed schedule | 7 | |
145530901 | Nationalism | -the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals -Political ideology that stresses people's membership in a nation-a community defined by a common culture and history as well as by territory. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, nationalism was a force for unity in western Europe | 8 | |
145530902 | Liberalism | a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties. | 9 | |
145530903 | Emmeline Pankhurst | -Leads movement to win women's vote (suffrage) through militant (radical, sometimes violent) means -English feminist-militant in her demands-heckled politicians and held public demonstrations -founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 -inspired MLK and Ghandi | 10 | |
145530904 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A member of the women's right's movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal." | 11 | |
145530905 | Susan B. Anthony | was a political leader and lobbist in the women's rights movement. She was from a quaker family and participated in the antislavery movements. In 1860, her efforts payed off- ny law granted women the right to collect and spend their own wages, own property, and assume sole guardian ship of children if widowed. | 12 |
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