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Assembly Line
Workers add parts to a product that moves along a belt from one work station to the next
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Thomas Edison
Made the first electric light bulb
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Stock
Shares in a company
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"survival of the fittest"
The process of natural selection came to be known as...
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Samuel F. B. Morse
Developed the telegraph
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Standard of Living
Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society
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Alfred Nobel
Invented dynamite
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Socialism
The people as a whole rather than private individuals would own and operate the means of production
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Charles Darwin
To explain the long, slow process of evolution, he put forward his theory of natural selection
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Florence Nightingale
British nurse who said "The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."
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mutual-aid societies
Self-help groups to aid sick or injured workers
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Henry Bessemer
Developed a new process for making steel from iron
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Karl Marx
Disliked capitalism because he said is created prosperity for a few and poverty for many
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John Dalton
Developed modern atomic theory
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Cambridge University
Male students at _________ rioted against granting degrees to women.
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Enterprise
A business organization in an area such as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories
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Guglielmo Marconi
Invented the Radio
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Utilitarianism
"The greatest happiness for the greatest number." was a goal of
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Robert Koch
Identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
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Akron, Ohio
Sojourner Truth gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in...
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social gospel
A movement that urged Christians to social service
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Nikolaus Otto
Invented a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine
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Social democracy
A political ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism instead of a sudden violent overthrow of the system
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Joseph Lister
Discovered how antiseptics prevented infection
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New Lanark, Scotland
Robert Owens set up a model "Utopian" community in in...
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