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Flashcards: WH - Industrial Revolution

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Domestic SystemA system of shearing a sheep giving the wool to a spinner then to a dyer and then to a store to sell the cloth. The money is split between the whole group.
CapitalThe money needed to start a corporation or a factory.
James HargreavesInvented the spinning Jenny
Eli WhitneyInvents cotton gin
Henry FordDecided to make cars that were affordable for most people based on German technology.
Samuel MorseInvented morse code through telegraph.
Thomas EdisonIn his life he patented more than 1,000 inventions, including the light bulb and the phonograph.
Labor UnionsPeople who pressed for reforms by joining together in voluntary labor associations.
Factory systemA building that contains all the machines needed to complete the domestic system. All of the profits are to the one factory owner and employees.
LaborThe employees and people needed to work a corporation and a factory.
Richard ArkwrightInvented the spinning wheel that used moving water to power a factory.
Henry BessemerFinds cheaper and more effective way to make steel.
PartnershipsA deal where two or more people own a corporation and split the profits and debts.
Alexander Graham BellInvented the first telephone/telegraph
The Wright BrothersInvented the first flying machine in 1903.
Collective BargainingNegotiations between workers and their employers
Enclosure movementA system that allowed farm owners to map out their property and put up barriers to mark it.
EntrepreneursA person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.
Edmund CartwrightInvented first power loom
Industrial CapitalismAn economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit.
CorporationsA business owned by stockholders who share the profits but are not personally responsible for its debts.
Guglielmo MarconiInvented the first one way radio
Rudolf DieselInvented the first internal combustion engine
The Middle Classwas boosted by the industrial revolution's profits.