| A | B |
|---|
| domestic system | practice of entrepreneuers, or owners, of supplying raw materials to others to make at home a product for the owner |
| factory system | practice of manufacturing goods by workers at a central place using power machines. |
| spinning jenny | produced many threads at one time |
| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin |
| enclosure movement | scattered fields were combined into single farms |
| corporation | a business organized by people who are given permission by the government to sell to the public certificates of ownership, or shares of stock. |
| dividend | shares of a businesses profits |
| labor union | an organized group of workers who represent the interests and demands of the workers in a particular industry |
| socialism | an economic and political system in which society as a whole, rather than individuals, owns all the property and operates all the businesses. |
| communism | an extreme form of socialism in which there is collective ownership of all land and the means of production |
| anarchism | an attempt to overthrow capitalism by force and to do away with government all together. |
| Malthus | let nature control population growth |
| Corn Laws | grain import tax |
| Marx | Communist leader |
| class struggle | struggle between rich and poor |
| atoms | the smallest part of an element that can exist alone or in combination |
| evolution | theory that states that the process of change from simple to complex forms of life takes place over a long period of time. |
| romanticism | a movement in creative expression that emphasized feeling and emotion and a love of nature, liberty, and beauty |
| realism | a movement in creative expression that emphasized portraying things as they are, with both ugly and beautiful aspects |
| survival of the fittest | only adaptable life forms survive |
| Emile Zola | wrote "J'Accuse" |
