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| Industrial Revolution | Development of factories around the world, which could produce goods more cheaply and more quickly than ever before. |
| textiles | The production of fabrics or cloth. These are significant because they were the first business area to become industrialized during the industrial revolution. |
| Enclosure Movement | Movement among wealthy British farmers. Using new farming technology and systems of crop rotation, they forced poor farmers off what used to be public land and now became private property. These poor ended up being the working class in the Industrial Revolution. |
| James Watt | Invented the steam engine. This allowed for the creation of both railroads and steamboats, which made transportation much easier. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin, which made cotton planting more profitable, and increased the need for slaves in the United States. |
| Henry Bessemer | Created a process for making steel, which launched the steel industry. |
| Edward Jenner | Created the smallpox vaccination, reducing the danger posed by the disease. |
| Louis Pasteur | Discovered bacteria, which helped scientists understand that germs cause disease. |
| Karl Marx | The founder of communism, he wrote the Communist Manifesto and Das Capital. |
| Communism | Economic system based upon the idea of equal distribution of wealth. |
| Imperialism | The creation of an empire, either through conquest or colonies. |
| Suez Canal | Canal that connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean to make trade easier between India and Europe. |
| Boxer Rebellion | Armed uprising in China against foreign influence, but it failed after the Western nations sent 20,000 troops to suppress it. |
| Nationalism | A sense of intense pride in one’s country, including the rejection of foreign influence. |
