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WH. Chapter 10
Industrialization and Nationalism 1800-1870
Term | Definition |
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Capital | Money available for investment |
Entrepreneur | A person who finds new business opportunities in new ways to make profits |
Cottage industry | A method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes |
puddling | The process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce higher-quality iron |
Industrial capitalism | An economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing |
Socialism | A system in which society, usually in the form of government, owns and controls the means of production |
Universal male suffrage | The right of all males to vote in elections |
Multinational empire | An empire in which people of many nationalities live |
Militarism | The reliance on military shrink |
Kaiser | German for "Cesar"; the title of the emperor's of the second German empire |
Plebiscite | A popular vote |
Emancipation | Active setting free |
Abolitionism | A movement to end slavery |
Creole | The person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently |
Peninsulare | A person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic aid and then return to Europe |
Mestizo | The person of mixed European and native American descent |
Caudillo | In post-revolutionary Latin America, a strong leader who ruled chiefly by military force, usually with the support of the land as the |
Cash crop | A crop that is grown for sale rather than personal use |
Romanticism | An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 18th century and reaction to the ideas of the enlightenment; it stresses feelings, emotion, and imagination as a source of knowing |
secularization | indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration |
natural selection | the principle that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others |
realism | a mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower-and-middle class life as it actually was |