Industrial+Revolution+(Sec+1&4)

= **Industrial Revolution (Sections 1 & 4) by Katelyn Bjerke, Hali Johnson, & Raymond McGovern 1750-1880** = **"One impulse from a vernal wood** **May teach you more of man,**  **Of moral evil and of good,**  **Than all the sages can."-William Wordsworth**

People: 1. James Watt- The cotton industry became even more productive when the steam engine was improved in the 1760s by a Scottish engineer, James Watt. 2. James Hargreaves- In 1764 James Hargreaves invented a spinning machine called the spinning jenny, which made the spinning process became much faster. Thread was being produced faster than weavers could use it. 3. Edmund Cartwright- By 1787 the water-powered loom was invented; this made it possible for the weaving of cloth to catch up with the spinning of thread. 4. Henry Cort- It became possible to produce a better quality of iron in the 1780s by a process called puddling. Coke was used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron. 5. Robert Fulton- Robert Fulton built the first paddle-wheel steamboat, the //Clermont//, in 1807. This made transportation easier on the Great Lakes and along the Atlantic coast. 6. Walter Scott- Walter Scott had some of the best-sellers in the first half of the nineteenth century. He focused on their nations’ past which resulted in many writers creating literature that reflected the fascination with nationalism. 7. Mary Shelley- Mary Shelley wrote Gothic literature that attracted many romantics. She wrote //Frankenstein// in Britain and Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories of horror in the United States. 8. William Wordsworth- The Romantics believed that nature served as a mirror into which humans could look to learn about themselves, which is evident in his poetry. He is the foremost English romantic poet of nature. 9. Ludwig van Beethoven- He was the bridge between the classical and romantic periods in music. He was able singlehandedly to transform the art of music. 10. Louis Pasteur- He proposed the germ theory of disease, which was crucial to the development of modern scientific medical practices in biology.

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Vocab: 1. Cottage industry: The tasks done by individual in their homes, being paid to work in their own homes than work in a dangerous factory. 2. Entrepreneurs: Some wealthy British people that were interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make profit. 3. Socialism a system in which society, usually in the form of government, owns and controls some means of production, such as factories. 4. Romanticism: Emerged as a reaction to the new type of intellectual movement, in eighteenth century time. 5. Realism: The belief that the world should be viewed realistically, closely related to the scientific outlook, frequently expressed after 1850. 6. Revisionist: Rejected the revolutionary approach and argued that workers must continue to organize in mass political parties to gain reforms. 7. Feminism: The movement for women’s rights. Women fought for acceptance into universities, occupations dominated by men, the right to divorce, and to own property. 8.Literacy: The ability to read. The most immediate result of public education was the increase of people who can read. Most adults could read by 1900. 9. Ministerial Responsibility: The ideas that the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected legislative body and not the elected officer. 10. Modernism: A movement in which writers and artists between 1870 and 1914 rebelled against the traditional literary and artistic styles that dominated since the Renaissance era.

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