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Period: Jul 3, 1347 to
Corporations
Food places are a corporation because they sell food and you need a higher boss to tell you whats next. -
Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright kickstarted the textile industrys. The textile stuff he used would be cotton or cloth. He also kept going and going till the roller spinner devised Lewis Paul and John Wyatt. -
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Cotton Gin
A cotton gin is and engine and machine that picks up seeds off of the ground -
James Watt
He invented the steam engine. It was more efficient and more cost-effective than earlier models. He also enabled the steam engine to be used to operate rotary machines. -
George Stephenson
He was a son of a mechanic who operated a Newcomen atmospheric-Steam Engine pump at a coal mine at Newcastle Upon Tyne. By age 19 Stephenson was operating a Newcomen engine. He also used his curiosity to be aroused by the Napoleonic War. -
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Germ Theory
The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases -
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Social Democracy
Social democracy has been described as the evolutionary form of democratic socialism that aims to gradually and peacefully achieve socialism through established political processes rather than social revolution as advocated by revolutionary socialists. -
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Social Gospel
The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. -
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Socialism
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. -
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Social Darwinism
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
Karl Marx
Marx argued that the that the industrial revolution had polarised the gap between the owners of the means of production and the workers and even more. This would change, when the poletariat, developing a class consciousness would rise up and overthrow capatalism. Marx also analysed society through the relationships between social classes. -
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Automobile
a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine or electric motor and able to carry a small number of people. -
Henry Bessemer
He developed the first process of manufacturing steal. He was the son of an engineer typefounder. He also invented an elongated artillery shell that was rotated by the powder gases. -
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Airplane
Wilbur and Orville wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane. -
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Assembly Line
Each worker is only responsible for one or two task, and repeat the same task over and over on different items as the pass along the line. -
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Communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
