Ch. 31 Flashcards
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| 54444809 | James Watt | inventor of the steam engine, which provided the energy that ran the Industrial Revolution | 0 | |
| 54444810 | Eli Whitney | Inventor who, by manufacturing with interchangeable parts, streamlined industrial production. | 1 | |
| 54444811 | Henry Ford | Entrepreneur who advanced mass production with a mechanized assembly line that moved the product through the factory. | 2 | |
| 54444812 | J.D. Rockerfeller | An aggressive and often ruthless industrialist who built a vertical empire around oil production. | 3 | |
| 54444813 | Thomas Malthus | Economist whose dire predictions about population growth suggested that nothing could be done to relieve poverty. | 4 | |
| 54444814 | Robert Owen | A philanthropic industrialist who created utopian societies for his workers and their families. | 5 | |
| 54444815 | Karl Marx | An outspoken critic of industrial capitalism who envisioned a classless society where all would share equally in the benefits of industry. | 6 | |
| 54444816 | Sergei Witte | Finance minister who aggressively promoted the industrial development of Russia. | 7 | |
| 54444818 | Luddites | English handicraft workers who tried to halt the industrialization of the textile industry through sabotage. | 8 | |
| 55233892 | Proletariat | The urban working class, the wage earners in industry. | 9 | |
| 55233893 | Bourgeois | The wealthy middle class, often the managers or industrialists. | 10 | |
| 55233894 | Zaibatsu | Wealthy Japanese industrialists who built large private industrial empires. | 11 |