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38 Cards in this Set
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Sepoy
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Indian soldiers controlled by British officers
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"jewel in the crown"
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the British colony of India--- so called because of its importance in the British empire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for British trade goods
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Sepoy Mutiny
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(1857) Hindus and Muslim sepoys refused to open cartridges that came in paper waxed with animal fat for religious reasons; killed British officers, and proclaimed restoration of the Mughal authority; had different interests, and were crushed by the British
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Social Darwinism
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"Survival of the fittest"
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Berlin Conference
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A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa
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Boers
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Dutch settlers in south Africa
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Laissez Faire
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What is the economic theory which states that the government should have no influence on the economy
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Anti-Semitism
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Prejudice against the Jews
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Factors of Production
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Land, labor, capital
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Entrepreneur
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Organizes, manages, takes business risks
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Corporation
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Company owned by stockholders, share profits not debt
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Unions
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Associations formed by laborers to work for change
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Strike
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Call a work stoppage
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Suffrage
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The right to vote
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Zionism
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Movement for Jewish homeland
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Penal Colony
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Place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences
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Assembly line
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Product moves from worker to worker
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Theory of evolution
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Charles Darwin natural selection
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Geopolitics
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Foreign policy based on consideration of strategic locations it products of other lands
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Karl Marx
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German journalist proposes a radical socialism, Marxism
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Enclosures
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Large farm fields enclosed by fences or hedges
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Urbanization
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City building and movement of people to cities
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Adam smith
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Defender of free markets and author of The Wealth of Nations
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Imperialism
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Seize of a country or territory by stronger countries
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Communism
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Society where people own, share the means of production
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Socialism
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Factors of production owned by, operated for the people
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Crop Rotation
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Food supplies increase Living conditions improve Population increased=demand for food
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Capitalism
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Enabled banks, stock exchanges, and international trading companies to thrive during the Commercial Revolution Money is invested in business ventures with the goal of making a profit Extension of philosophy of liberalism
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Queen Liliuokalani
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Hawaii's only queen and the last monarch of Hawaii Refused to renew a treaty signed by her brother Forced to give up Hawaii in 1895
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Industrialization
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CAUSE Expanding economy Abundant natural resources Inventions EFFECT Growing middle-class Development of Socialism Reform
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Racism
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the idea that one race is superior to others
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Shaka
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a Zulu chief who used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state
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Boer War
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the war between the British and the Boers, the first modern "total" war, Boers launched commando raids and used guerrilla tactics against the British; British countered by burning Boer farms and imprisoning women and children in disease-ridden concentration camps
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Menelik II
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became emperor of Ethiopia in 1889, played Italians, French and British against each other while he built up arsenal of modern weapons for the later war that would ensue
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King Mongkut
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Siamese king who modernized Siam because he understood the importance of progress
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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leader of the Filipino nationalists who claimed US had promised immediate independence after the war ended, declared independence and established the Philippine Republic
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Pacific Rim
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The lands that border the Pacific Ocean--especially those in Asia.
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Factory
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large building where wealthy textile merchants set up the machines
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