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25 Cards in this Set
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one of the fenced in hedged in field created by wealthy British landowners on land that was formerly worked by village farmers
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Enclosures
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person who organized, manages, takes on risk of businesses
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Entrepreneurs
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the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, esp. on a large scale
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Manufacturing
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factors of production are owned by public and operate for well fare of them all
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Socialism
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the condition of having a highly technical implementation
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Mechanization
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an association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and
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Unions
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a federation of trade unions organized in 1886: united with the Congress of Industrial Organizations 1955
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American Federation of Labor
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system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land
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Crop Rotation
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a machine for separating the fibers of cotton from the seeds
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Cotton Gin
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a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people
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Slums
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an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
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Corporation
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an economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist and all goods and services are shared equally
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Communism
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negotiations between workers and their employers
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Collective Bargaining
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shift, beginning in England during 18th century, fomo making goods by hand to the machine
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Industrial Revolution
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engine worked by steam
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Steam Engine
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social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people and wealthy farmers
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Middle Class
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idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and businesses
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Laissez fair
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class of wage earners, esp. those who earn living by manual labor
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Proletariat
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collection of various resources, which contribute to producing goods or services Example: Factors of production fall into three main groups - land, labor, and capital
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Factors of Production
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the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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Urbanization
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A cloth, especially one manufactured by weaving or knitting; a fabric
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Textiles
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the philosophical/ethical theory that people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions based on their usefullness
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Utilitarianism
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the middle class in France who loved the enlightenment ideas
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Bourgeoisie
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the legal prohibition and ending of slavery
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Abolition
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to refuse to work when a business owner does not meet demands for higher pay or better working conditions
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Strike
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