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| invented the process of purying iron ore into steel |
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| Commander of the Prussian army |
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-With Robespierre he led the Committee of Public Safety
-Did not like the old regime and tried to make France a republic |
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-A physiocrat who believed in Laissez faire
-he believed people should have fewer children to control the population |
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-The French army was the strongest in Europe
-He put the country into deficit spending becuase of the Palace of Versailles
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-In order to fix France's financial problems, he chose Jacques Necker as a financial adviser
-Necker proposed that the king tax the First and Second Estates and the king fired him
-He ended up calling the Estates General |
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-With Danton he led the Committee of Public Safety
-Did not like the old regime and tried to make France a republic
-He also played a part in the Reign of Terror |
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| Improved the steam engine |
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| Commander of the British army against Napoleon |
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| Thought that the Utopians' ideas were unrealistic, and formed communism |
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| Wrote the Iron Law of Wages, stateing that when the supply of workers goes up, wages go down |
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-He basically tried to take over all of Europe
-Finally he was defeated by Wellington and Blucher in the Battle of Waterloo
-Twice he was exiled; first to Elba where he escaped; then to St.Helena where he died |
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-Worried that the war would only involve New England, Adams requested that George Washington, a southerner, be the army General
-After the war, Adams was sent to work on a peace treaty with Britain |
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-Preached utilitarianism
-to him, all laws or actions should be judged by their utility
-he supported individual freedom, which he believed guaranteed happiness |
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-Bentham's chief follower, also argued that actions are right if they promote happiness and wrong if they cause pain
-believed that unrestricted competition in the free market favored the strong over the weak |
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| Built the nation's largest steel company |
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-A revolutionary political club who were mostly middle-class lawyers or intellectuals
-They believed in the republican cause |
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-He used Watt's steam engine to power the Clermont up the Hudson River in New York
-His steamboat traveled at a record-breaking speed of more than five miles an hour |
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| -was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence |
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-A British economist who greatly admired the physiocrats
-He wrote The Wealth of Nations, which argued that the free market should be allowed to regulate business activity
-He was a strong supported of Laissez faire
-He created the supply and demand theory |
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-A successful mill owner
-He didn't use child labor and campaigned for laws limiting child labor and encouraging the organization of labor unions |
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