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Chapter 25
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History
10th Grade
02/17/2010

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Cottage Industries
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Used to produce cloth and clothing
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Factors of Production
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resources needed to produce good and services that the Industrial Revolution required.

[Land- Labor- Capital(Wealth)]

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James Watt
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Improved the steam engine
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Louis Pasteur
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Developed the process of pasteurization
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Laissez- Faire
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A term that the government should stay out of businesses
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Karl Marx
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Wrote The "Communist Manifesto" and the "Kapital" largely b/c he didn't like the abuses.
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Factory
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A place where workers and machines work together to produce goods
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Textiles
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Making of Cloth
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Socialist
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one who advocates or practices socialism or a member of a party or political group advocating socialism
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Union
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Group of workers in a particular trade or industry
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Capitalism
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Economic system in which money is invested in a business with the goal of making a profit
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Suffrage
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right to vote
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Einstein
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E=MC^2
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Marie Curie
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Researched radioactivity
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Thomas Edison
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Light Bulb and Moving Pictures
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Alex G. Bell
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Bell Telephone Company
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Robert Fulton
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used the steam engine to propel boats
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Henry Ford
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Assembly Line
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Assembly Line
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arrangement in which a product is moving from worker to worker
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Mercantilism
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sought to increase power and wealth by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver by sell more goods than bought
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Collective Bargaining
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Negotiations between workers and employers.
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Corporation
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Business owned by stock holders who share profits but arent responsible for debt
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Jane Addams
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began the movement for women's rights
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Entrepreneur
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Person who organizes, manage, and take on the risk of a business.
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Interchangeable Parts
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Eli Whitney made a product that could have interchangeable parts
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Strike
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Refusal to work usually because of employers refusal to meet demands
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