History section-OGT
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riderfan215 on February 12, 2012
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History section-OGT
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29 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Application | the act of bringing something to bear |
| Consequence | the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual |
| Disintegrated | break or decompose into parts or small particles |
| Emigration | movement of individuals out of an area |
| Enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions |
| Fundamental idea | competition exerts natural selection |
| Harshness | excessive sternness |
| Immigration | migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) |
| Imperialism | a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries |
| Industrial revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation |
| Ineffectiveness | lacking the power to be effective |
| Intervene | occur between other event or between certain points of time |
| Labor unions | Organizations of workers who, together, put pressure on the employers in an industry to improve working conditions and wages. |
| Land holdings | piece of owned or rented land |
| Liberated | to set free |
| Migration | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another |
| Modernize | become technologically advanced |
| Natural law | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
| Progressive | a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties |
| Ratification | making something valid by formally confirming it |
| Relocated | settled in a new location |
| Rural | living in or characteristic of farming or country life |
| Stimulate | cause to be alert and energetic |
| Suburban | an area near or around a city |
| Urban | relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area |
| Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban |
| Enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions |
| John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) |
| Natural Rights | the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property |
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