Romantic Era - Gontesky
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11kaiwar on February 7, 2011
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Humanities Class of 2011, 2011 Humanities
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Age of Industry | The romantic age was also called this.. |
| Romantic Period | Most influential era Revolution! |
| Factors of production | Land, labor, entreprenuership |
| Improved Steam engine | Breakthrough invention James Watt (1769) |
| Steamboat | Robert fulton 1807 |
| Stephenson Steam locomotive | 1825 use spread throughout america and europe |
| Textile industry | one person instead of five cotton gin factory system sewing machine |
| Telegraph | Samuel Morse (1832) Transatlantic Cable Foundation of telephone (1876) |
| Malthusian Theory | 1798 Population increase - not enough food (supply and demand) |
| Seed drill | 1830's Jethro Tull |
| Reaper | Cyrus McCormick 1840's |
| Steel Plow | John Deere |
| Bessemer Process | Coal and Iron into steel |
| Construction revolution | Skyscrapers Home insurance building New york equitable life building |
| Louis Sullivan | "Form ever follows function" Father of modern skyscraper wainwright building |
| Capitalism | Economic Social System Individual controls means of production Private business |
| Socialism | Karl Marx Friedrich engels Haves vs. Have nots |
| Communism | 4 stages revolution dicatorship of proletariat Socialism pure communism |
| Romanticism | Artistic literary intellectual escape from modern realities |
| Workers & Condition | Factories Low wages 14 hours/day 6 days a week abuse of workers |
| Rising up | John stuart mill - government should protect laws passed: limit on child labor 8 & up under 13 years old : less than 8 hours a day |
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