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Taking over & fencing off land to that once had been shared by peasant farmers
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- Replace the small strips of land with larger fields
- Made farming more efficient, improving agricultural production |
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| A long, slow, uneven process in which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machines |
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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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| The development of industries for the machine production of goods |
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| The resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Revolution required |
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| Where workers and machines came together in one place to produce a larger amount of goods |
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| A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business |
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| Moving from rural (farms) areas to urban (city) areas |
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| A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, businesspeople, and wealthy farmers |
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| Certain rights of ownership entrepreneurs sold shares in |
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| Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts |
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| The idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and businesses |
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| An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit |
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| The theory, proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700's that government actions are useful only if they promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people |
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| An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all |
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| A form of complete socialism in which the means of production in which the means of production-all land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses-would be owned by the people |
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| An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages |
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| To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands |
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| members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men |
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| The republic that was established in France after the downfall of Napoleon III and ended with the German occupation of France during World War II |
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| A controversy in France centering on the trial and imprisonment of a Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany |
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| A movement to promote Jewish self-determination and the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland |
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| In the British Empire, a nation allowed to govern its own domestic affairs |
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