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25 Cards in this Set
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Market Economy |
Private ownership of stores, products & their distribution
Laws were in place to protect property |
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The Good of a Market Economy? |
1. Creates more jobs
2. Better prices for consumers |
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The Bad of a Market Economy? |
1. No Skills = No Job
2. Survival of the fitest |
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New Imperialism |
When new countries have a good economic system |
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Empire |
A group of many states or countries under rule by a single supreme authority |
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Politically, Empires dominated the globe in the 1900's.
They Favored free-trade capitalist economic order among themselves. |
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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION |
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Social Darwinism |
Describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest."
*includes survival of countries & bussiness |
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Industrial Society |
Society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labor.
Made an improvement to people's standard of living |
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1899-1902 |
Boer War |
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Cecil Rhodes |
The most dynamic British promoter of an African Empire
A territory was named after him (Rhodesia) |
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Nationalism |
a belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one's nation |
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Democracy |
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
*The United States |
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Industrialization |
The process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services |
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Ancient Empires of Asia & Africa |
They were governed by emperors whose authority was ABSOLUTE, limited only by time-honored traditions. Ruled over people of differing customs, languages & religions. They were aloud to keep their beliefs but than denied access to wealth and power over themselves unless they adopted their rulers language & religion. Times of disorder relied on the army. |
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The Fall of the Chinese Empire Revealed.... |
....that ancient empires could not rely on the loyalty of their people during economic hardship and defeat at war |
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The Success of the Japanese Empire Revealed.... |
.... that the key to survival lay in adapting the political institutions and industrial technology of the Western Empires to a country's specific needs. |
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Nation States |
a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent
Where people have rights and rules and elect their leaders |
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Who were the Boers? |
The Boers were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa. |
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Monroe Doctrine |
A US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. |
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Rudyurd Kipling |
an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Wrote "The white man's burden" |
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Confucianism |
Teachings of Confucius applied to society
"A way to build an orderly Empire" |
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Empress Dowager Cixi |
was a powerful and charismatic woman who effectively controlled the Chinese government for 47 years.
Her son was next inline when the Emperor died, but being only 5 years old, she decided to rule in his place. |
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Civic Nationalism |
is a kind of nationalism identified by political philosophers who believe in a non-xenophobic form of nationalism compatible with values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights
*xenophobic* having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries |
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Ethnic Nationalism |
a form of nationalism wherein the "nation" is defined in terms of ethnicity |
