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James Hargreave

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Invented The Spinning Jenny

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Spinning Jenny

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Multi-spool spinning wheel that reduces the time to produce textiles

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Richard Arkwright

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Invented the Water Frame

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Water Frame

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Used power to drive a number of spinning machines

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Abraham Darby

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Made advances in using coke to produce less expensive iron at their Coalbrookedale iron works

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Henry Cort

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Improved the process of iron making to produce wrought iron

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James Watt

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Scottish instrument maker that invented the steam engine

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Matthew Boulton

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Made the steam engine a commercial success

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Richard Trevithick

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Desligues the steam engine that was lighted than Watt’s

Could be used to power a locomotive

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William Hedley

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Invented “Puffing Billy”

Used to haul coal along an iron flanged track

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George Stephenson

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“Father of the Railroads”

Work in building railroads between Liverpool and Manchester in 1830

Created “Rocket”

Was the first modern locomotive to be used on a railway line

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L&MR

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Liverpool and Manchester Railroad

Had Stephenson’s rocket

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Robert Fitch

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First successful steam boat

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Robert Fulton

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Made the steam boat a commercial success

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Samuel Morse

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Proved hat signals could be carried by pulses of current down a wire

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Limited liability act of 1856

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Allowed shareholders in companies with more than 25 investors to risk only the amount they had invested

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Laissez faire

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An economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without gov. Intervention

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Capitalism

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An economic system in which money is invested in business ventures with the goal of making a profit

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Adam smith

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A professor of Glasgow University who wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776

Capitalism

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Utilitarianism

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A philosophy arguing that people should judge ideas, institutions and actions in the basis of utility or usefulness

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Jeremy Bentham

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Utilitarianism

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Socialism

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Economic system in which major factors of production are owned by the public and operated for the benefit of all

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Communism

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Economic system in which all factors of production are owned by the public and operated for the benefit of all. Private property ceases to exist

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Karl Marx

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German journalist and philosopher who authored Das Kapital, which was the major economic rationale for communism

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Friedrich Engels

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Son of a German factory owner in Manchester, England. With Marx, he co-authored The Communist Manifesto

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William Wilberforce

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Highly religious member of Parliament, tried repeatedly to pass bills through parliament outlawing slavery

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The factory act of 1833

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Made it illegal to hire children under nine years old and limited work hours for older children

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The 1842 mines act

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Prevented women and children from working underground

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10 hours act of 1847

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Limited the workday

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Jane Addams

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Set up Hull House in Chicago for poor working women

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

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Raised awareness of issues with their Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

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Horace Mann

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Head of the newly created Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, promoted public education for all children

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Giuseppi Mazzini

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Italian patriot and idealist

Organize a nationalist group called young Italy

Participated in the 1848 revolutions

Went into exile when those revolutions failed

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Camilo di Cavour

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prime minister of Piedmont Sardinia. Accomplished the independence of northern Italy by receiving help from France to oust Austria from most of northern Italy

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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A hero of the Italian “Risorgimento”

Fought in defense of Rome

Lead an army of his red shirts to victories against the armies of the bourbon kingdoms of the two Sicilies

Brought them under the rule of a constitutional monarch

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Wilhelm I

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Reformed and double the size of the Prussian army

Faced opposition to military spending by his liberal parliament

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Otto von Bismarck

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Appointed as Welhelm’s prime minister

Is a master of realistic power politics (realpolitik)

Started to roll without the consent of Parliament and without a legal budget

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John Stuart Mill

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Socialism

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Church

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Romanticism

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Delacroix

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Romanticism

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Beethoven

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Romanticism

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Hugo

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Romanticism

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Goya

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Romanticism

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Gericault

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Romanticism

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Daumier

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Realism

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Millet

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Realism

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Eakins

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Realism

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Monet

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Impressionism

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Van Gogh

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Impressionism

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Cezanne

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Impressionism

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Renoir

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Impressionism