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industrial rev vocab
for mrs.hodges
term | connection |
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1. laissez-faire | during the Industrial Revolution people believe that it would maximize the economy grow so everyone would benefit including Factory owners and their employers |
2. Social Darwinism | drive from Darwin's theory of natural selection a theory that the government should take little action to interfere with people's success so if you were poor you weren't going to make it |
3. capitalism | due to capitalism in the industrial revolution business owners could choose the working condition sand how little people got paid and who worked(kids,teens,and adults)and how much they worked. |
4. stethoscope | due factories caused mass production health equipment such as the stethoscope so doctors could listen to your heart. |
5.interchangeable parts | they allowed relatively unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly at Aloha cost in made repair and replacement of parts infinitely easier |
6.division of labor | division of labor was new more efficient system used in manufacturing that assigned specific tasks to each worker this new system because it was more efficient and increased productivity |
7.child labor | young kids work in the factory because it was cheaper to pay themand thanks could be made faster |
8.Thomas Edison | he was in Inventor during the Industrial Revolution and he invented the light bulb and other things related |
9.Alexander Graham Bell | he invented the telephone during the Industrial Revolution |
10.Eli Whitney | he is best known for inventing the cotton gin which was a key invention during the Industrial Revolution |
11.Robert Fulton | American engineer and inventor he built the first commercially successful full-size Steamboat during the Industrial Revolution this will make things easier to transport |
12.Carnegie | the baron of steal industry during the Industrial period |
13.Rockefeller | business leader who started the Standard Oil Company one of the largest monopolies in the US .oil was mainly used during the Industrial Revolution |
14.Morgan | |
15.Vanderbilt | |
16.robber baron | |
17.captain of industry | |
18.strikebreakers/scabs |