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system in which the government owns and operates major businesses and controls other parts of the ecomony |
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free market economic system in which the means of production are owned and operated by individuals for profit |
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a person who risks his or her money to set up a business |
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small business conducted in the home |
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movement to end something |
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the right to vote
colonized people denied the right to vote
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hatred or fear of Jewish people |
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movement among European Jews to set up a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Jewish Nationalism |
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economical, efficient method of production in which the complex job of assembling many parts is broken down into smaller tasks, each performed by an individual worker
introduced by American auto manufacturer Henry Ford |
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rigid separation of races by law in South Africa |
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control by one country of the political, ecomonic, or cultural life of another country or region |
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Indian troops who served in the British army |
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theory that a country's economic strength depended on iincreasing its gold supply by exporting more goods than it imported |
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adding territory to one's own country |
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pride in and loyalty to one's country |
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right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation |
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area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment of trading privileges
form of imperialism, especially in China |
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in England in the 1700's, the process of taking over and fencing off public lands
led to increased food production and the second Agricultural Revolution |
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place in which workers and machines are brought together to produce large quantities of goods |
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business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investment |
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form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx;
according to Marx, class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole |
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idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people |
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policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference |
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local self-government
desire for indepedence among colonized people |
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negotiations between workers and their employers;
workers bargained for better working conditions and higher pay
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the lands surrounding the Pacific Ocean ~ especially those in Asia |
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1. the adoption of a conqueror's culture by a conquored people;
2. a policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt it's institutions and customs |
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a company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia |
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the application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies ~ particularly as justification for imperialist expansion |
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proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859;
the idea that species of plants and animals arise by means fo a process of natural selection |
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the system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land |
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to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands |
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an association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages |
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the resources including land, labor, and capital ~ that are needed to produce goods and services |
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belief that a perfect society exists. A society where workers and factories exist in perfect harmony. |
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The wage of workers will always be forced down to the bare minimum possible. Usually just enough for survival. |
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British East India Company |
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British multinational corporation that had a monopoly over all businesses in India.
Ruled India as a government until the Sepoy Revolution. |
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Rudyard Kipling poem that described a relationship between industrialized nations and the areas they conquered.
It was the task of Europeans to civilize the non-civilized. |
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European movement to grab as much territory in Africa as possible.
Europeans believed who ever had the most colonies was the most powerful. |
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Where does the Industrial Revolution begin? |
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List the 5 factors that were responsible for the Industrial Revolution. |
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- natural resources
- human resources
- new technology
- economic conditions
- political and social stability
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During the Industrial Revolution, what was coal used for?
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coal ~ fuel
iron ~ used to make machines |
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Why were wages in the cities so low during the Industrial Revolution? |
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so many people lived in the cities at the time that factories could pay low wages and people were still lined up to work. |
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Britain had large amounts of two natural resources.
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Why are scientific ideas applied to factories? |
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England was the center of the Scientific Revolution. |
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Who holds the political control in England during the Industrial Revolution? |
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List and explain the 3 economic conditions in England during the Industrial Revolution. |
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- growing overseas empire provided capital for investment in mills and factories;
- growing population created an increased demand for goods;
- expanding middle class could afford those new goods.
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