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Unit 6 WH2 Vocab
Industrial Revolution & Nationalism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial | the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines |
| Capital | Money, profit, or assets worth a monetary value |
| Entrepreneurship | Start of a self-owned business with the capability of growth |
| British Enclosure Movement | that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land" enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their rights of access and privilege. |
| Cottage Industries | a period of time in which goods for sale were produced on a very small scale, usually in a home |
| Spinning Jenny | Machine that is used to process textiles into workable material |
| Cotton Gin | Machine used to clean raw cotton |
| Urbanization | Moving from a small rural place to a bigger, more industrialized and populated area |
| Reforms | A change made in an attempt to better something; typically in reference to new laws |
| Market Competition | market where there are a large number of buyers and sellers where no single buyer or seller can affect the price of goods being sold. |
| Worker Strikes | collective refusal by employees to work under the conditions required by employers |
| Lobby | Attempting to influence public officers into making a decision in support of a cause |
| Secular Society | When religion is separate from government |
| Capitalism | System in which a country's trade and economy is controlled by private owners |
| Nationalism | an ideology that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests. |
| Socialism | System where property and public resources are operated and owned by citizens or community |
| Doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief |
| Communism | System that is meant to eliminate divides between social classes with main goal being an equally shared community |
| Liberalism | Concept that promotes everyone's individual rights and equality |
| Conservatism | Concept that promotes traditional social institutions, usually resistant to change due to traditional benefits |
| Legislative | a published record (as of drafts and commentary by the drafters) relating to the passing of particular legislation |
| Papal States | the areas comprising a large district in central Italy ruled as a temporal domain by the popes (755-1870) |
| Realpolitik | System where politics mainly focus on practical ideas rather than imaginable, hypothetical ones |
| Wealth of Nations | the book by Adam Smith which forms the basis for modern capitalism. |
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