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9376414980Richard ArkwrightBritish inventor of the water frame (1769), which helped revolutionize textile production.0
9376414981Eli WhitneyUnited States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)1
9376414982division of laborDivision of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers2
9376414983steam engineA machine that turns steam into power.3
9376414984Agricultural Revolutiona period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plantsman4
9376414985CoalA significant source of power for the steam engine and later steam ships Importance - increased trade by using trains and ships5
9376414986industrial revolution in Englandthe late 18th century, a series of innovations shifted textile production to a new factory system. And cotton led the way.6
9376414987Industrial revolution in the USThe Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.7
9376414988Second Industrial Revolutiona period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800s8
9376414989Trans-Siberian Railroadrailroad, begun in 1891, linking western Russia to Siberia in the east9
9376414990Tenementsa room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.10
9376414991working classa social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages11
9376414992white-collarjobs in fields not requiring work clothes or protective clothing, such as sales12
9376414993Cult of DomesticityBelief in Middle and Upper Classes in US and Britain - women embodied perfect virtues in all senses13
9376414994Consumerismthe protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.14
9376414995MonopolyComplete control of a product or business by one person or group15
9376414996Labor UnionsGroups formed by workers to improve working conditions16
9376414997Otto von Bismarck(1815-1898) Prussian chancellor who engineered the unification of Germany under his rule.17
9376414998Utopian Socialismsocialism achieved by voluntary sacrifice18
9376414999Karl MarxFather of Communism19

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