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38 Cards in this Set
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Industrial Revolution |
The shift, beginning in England during the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine |
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Enclosure |
Large farm fields enclosed by fences or hedges |
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Factory |
large building where wealthy textile merchants set up the machines |
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Entrepreneuer |
A person who organizers, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.
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Stock |
he capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares. |
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Queen Lilioukalani |
Hawaii's only queen and the last monarch of Hawaii |
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Communism |
An economic system in which all means of production – land, mines, factories, railroads, and business – are owned by the people, private, property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally
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Strike |
To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands
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Sufferage |
Dutch settlers in south Africa |
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Anti-Semitism |
Prejudice against the Jews |
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Boers |
Dutch settlers in south Africa |
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Socialism |
Factors of production owned by, operated for the people |
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Penal Colony |
Place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences |
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Assembly Line |
In a factory, an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in its manufacture |
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Theory of Evolution |
Charles Darwin natural selection |
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Imperialism |
Seize of a country or territory by stronger countries |
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Racism |
the idea that one race is superior to others |
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Berlin Confrence |
A meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa |
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Shaka |
a Zulu chief who used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state |
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Boer War |
the war between the British and the Boers |
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Suez Canal |
A human-made waterway connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea |
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Geopolitics |
Foreign policy based on consideration of strategic locations it products of other lands |
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Pacific Rim |
The lands that border the Pacific Ocean |
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"Jewel in the Crown" |
the British colony of India |
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Urbanization |
The growth of cities and the migration of people into them |
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Union |
An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages |
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Factors of Production |
Land, labor, capital |
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Karl Marx |
German journalist proposes a radical socialism, Marxism |
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King Mongkut |
Siamese king who modernized Siam because he understood the importance of progress |
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Social Darwinism |
"Survival of the fittest" |
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Menelik II |
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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Sepoy |
An Indian soldier serving under British command |
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Sepoy Mutiny |
Hindus and Muslim sepoys refused to open cartridges that came in paper waxed with animal fat for religious reasons |
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Corporation |
Company owned by stockholders, share profits not debt |
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Crop Rotation |
The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land |
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Emilio Aguinaldo |
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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Adam Smith |
Defender of free markets and author of The Wealth of Nations |
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Laissez Faire |
The idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and business |
