THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, English People began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines. Sometime later they invented locomotives. Productivity began a steep climb. By 1850 most Englishmen were laboring in industrial towns and Great Britain had become the …showed first 75 words of 639 total…

…showed last 75 words of 639 total…and the power. The distinction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is fundamental to Marxism Absolutism - a political system that gathers power in the hands of one person or a group of persons who have almost unlimited authority. The notion of absolutism became prominent in Europe during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries when monarchs were struggling to wrest power from groups such as the church and the nobility and to create national states.