| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Capitalism | hands of approch to economics, goverment couldn't interfere, people ran the businesses |
| Marxism | Ideal) concept that founded communism and socialism, belief that everyone should be equal and iliminated the gap between the rich and poor |
| Socialism | system which the people were as a whole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all buisnesses, classless society |
| Utilitarianism | the idea that the goal of society should be the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens |
| Communism | no social class the community shars all the profis thaey make, equal whealth, and all equal, stonger version of socialism |
| Where did the Industrial Revolution Begin | Britain |
| Putting-out system | a cottage industry in whish raw cotton was distributed to peasant families who spun it into thread and then wove it into cloth in their own homes |
| Labor Unions | workers’ organizations to protect the rights for the working class, reforms in working conditions, age limit, and wages |
| Ideology | a set of basic beliefs about life, culture, government, and society |
| Laissez-Faire Economics | a form of capitalism, hands off approch to economics in which the government can not interfere with people running the buisenesses |
| Natural selection | a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment |
| Urban renewal | the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums |
| Temperance movement | movement to ban the drinking of alcohol |
| Darwinism | belife that we evolved from monkeys, survival of the fitest |
| Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion |
| Romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason |
| Nationalsim | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
| 3 Main dynasties | Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire |
| Otto von Bismarck | The leader of prussia, who unified the country and made it a world power |
| Tory Party | demecratic party |
| Whig Party | conservitive republican party |
| Zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the united states should extend its territory to from the east coast to the west coast |
| Imperialism | the domination by one country of the political, economic, and cultural life of another country or religion |
| Direct Rule | system of colonial government in which the imperialist power controlled all levels of government and appointed its own officials to govern the colony. |
| Indirect Rule | system of goverment in which local leader were alound to still rule but under the laws of the controling country |
| Sphere of Influence | a foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities |
| Berlin conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on the rules of colonization in Africa and the regulating of trade and resources |
| Boer War | Lasting from 1899 to 1902, Dutch colonists and the British competed for control of territory in South Africa. |
| Open door policy | the U.S. policy to keep Chinese trade open to every nation on and equal basis |
| Triple Alliance | Formed the central powers, the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Astria Hungery |
| The Allies | The alliance between France, Russia, and Britain, and later The U.S., Japan, and Italy |
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