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42 Cards in this Set
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Industrial Revolution |
Development of Industry in 18th and 19th century in Great Britain |
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Enclosure |
an area that is sealed off |
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Crop rotation |
System of changing crops during certain time periods |
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Factors of Production |
Land Labor and Capital |
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Factory |
A large building where machines make products |
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Entrepreneur |
person who organizes and takes risk on a buisness |
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Urbanization |
Where most of the population moves to the suburbs and cities |
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Middle Class |
A working class between upper and lower |
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Stock |
the goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution |
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Corporation |
a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law. |
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Laissez Fair |
a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering |
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Adam Smith |
Wrote "The Wealth of Nations" describing economy |
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Socialism |
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community |
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Karl Marx |
Founded Marxism, a system of economy |
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Communism |
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs |
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Union |
an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests |
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Strike |
a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. |
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suffrage |
the right to vote in political elections |
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Anti-Semitism |
hostility to or prejudice against Jews. |
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Zionism |
the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel |
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Penal Colony |
a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory |
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Capitalism
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an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit |
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Assembly Line
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a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled |
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Charles Darwin
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Founder of the Theory of Evolution |
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Theory of Evolution
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organisms that possess heritable traits that enable them to better adapt to their environment compared with other members of their species will be more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass more of their genes on to the next generation |
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Mass Culture
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the set of ideas and values that develop from a common exposure to the same media, news sources, music, and art. |
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Imperialism |
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force |
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Racism |
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. |
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Social Darwinism |
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals |
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Berlin Conference |
regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power |
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Shaka |
The Zulu ruler during imperialism |
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Boer
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a member of the Dutch and Huguenot population that settled in southern Africa in the late 17th century |
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Boer War
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War fought between Africa and England over territories in the continent |
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Menelik II |
Helped gain independence from Italy in Ethiopia
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Geopolitics |
a method of studying foreign policy to understand, explain and predict international political behaviour through geographical variables |
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Sepoy |
an Indian soldier serving under British or other European orders. |
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Jewel in the Crown |
India |
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Sepoy Mutiny |
Rebellion of India against the British |
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Pacific Rim |
the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean |
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King Mongkut |
King of Thailand
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Emilio Aguinaldo |
First President of the Pillipines
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Queen Liliuokalani
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Queen ofHawii |
