global studies industrial revolution
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francesmyrick on November 20, 2011
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 capital | money available for investment |
| entrepreneur | a person looking for a new ways to make profit on their own |
| cottage industry | industrialization taking place in people's homes |
| Puddling | coke form coal is used to burn impurities found in crude iron to produce high quality iron |
| Industrial Capitalism | economic system based on industrial production |
| Socialism | A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production. |
| Utopian | perfect society |
| Liberal | a person who believes in representation and free from government |
| Conservative | resistant to change |
| Militarism | policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war |
| Kaiser | "caesar" a word used for emperors in germany |
| Emancipation | the act of setting free |
| Abolitionism | movement to end slavery |
| secede | withdraw |
| romanticism | a literary movement with an emphasis on the imagination and emotions |
| Secularization | indifference or rejection to religion |
| Organic evolution | the idea that organisms have evolved over a long period of time from earlier, simpler forms |
| Natural Selection | process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest |
| Realism | the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth |
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