Chapter 31 Flashcards

54094375	James Watt	his improvements to the steam engine led to its wide use in industry	0
54094376	Elie Whitney	He invented the cotton gin	1
54094377	Henry Ford	He made assembly line production more efficient in his Rouge River plant near Detroit- a finished car would come out every 10 seconds. He helped to make car inexpensive so more Americans could buy them.	2
54094378	J.D. Rockefeller	He revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.	3
54094379	Thomas Malthus	Argued that population tends to increase more rapidly than food supplies	4
54094380	Robert Owen	He had campaigned for laws that limited child labor and encouraged organized labor unions.	5
54094381	Karl Marx	he was the founder of modern communism, and he wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; He also wrote Das Kapital in 1867	6
54094382	Sergei Witte	A highly influential policy maker who presided over extensive industrialization within the Russian Empire. He was the author of the October Manifesto and was the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire. He was heavily involved in economics of Russia and pursued an ambitious program of railway construction.	7
54094383	Bessemer Converter	was a refined blast furnace that made it possible to produce steel cheaply and in large quantities	8
54094384	Luddites	These were the angry old cottage industry workers who lost their jobs and costumers to machines and as a result, they began to secretly destroy the machines	9
54094385	Crystal Palace	an architectural masterpiece made entirely out of glass and iron, which symbolized the industrial age	10
54094386	Demographic Transition	means that the change in a population goes from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates	11
54094387	Socialism	is a political theory advocating state ownership of industry	12
54094388	Communism	is a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership	13
54094389	Proletariate	is considered the working class	14
54094390	Trade Unions	were assosiations of trade workers formed to gain higher wages, and better working conditions	15
54094391	Zaibastu	were wealthy business families in japan	16