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document relating proletariat with the IR, proletariat should overthrow bourgeoisie - roots of communism | Communist Manifesto/Karl Marx |
Workers in Britain (1810–1820) who responded to replacement of human labor by machines during the Industrial Revolution by attempting to destroy the machines; named after a mythical leader, Ned Ludd. | Ladies |
1861-1865 - First modern war using industrial revolution, ironclad ships, new technology, massive deaths | United States Civil War |
agriculture based on only one crop; resulted in many European colonies in the 1800-1900 because of mercantilism | monoculture |
a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated monoculture because of European mercantilism | Banana Republic |
goods that are consumed by a large percentage of the population around the IR, such as textiles | popular consumption |
significant to the IR because entrepreneurs are who help begin the IR | entrepreneurship |
industrialization but only to a certain extent | partial modernization |
a chain of events that led to a change in Japan's political and social structure. It occurred from 1866 to 1869, transverses both the late Edo and beginning of the Meiji Era. | Meiji Restoration |
Huge industrial combines created in Japan in the 1890s as part of the process of industrialization | zaibatsu |
a factory for making textiles, one of the 1st major industries during the IR | textile mills |
tension between classes during the IR due to income gap, social treatment, etc. | class tension |
voting rights; suffrage movement; universal suffrage | suffrage |
involved a larger family with many children for agricultural work, etc. | traditional family life |
The cotton gin is a machine invented in 1793 invented by American Eli Whitney (granted a patent on March 14, 1794) to mechanize the production of cotton fiber. Led to increase of Atlantic Slave Trade | cotton gin/Eli Whitney |
a journalist, author or filmmaker who investigates and exposes societal issues such as political corruption, child labor, conditions in slums and prisons,fraudulent claims by manufacturers of medicines and others. | Muckrakers |
neighborhood centers in urban areas that provided literacy, classes, daycare, entertainment - like a YMCA | Settlement Houses |
movements for greater female rights; referred to as feminist movement | Women’s Emancipation movements |
conditions in a location or region that encourage people to migrate from it | push factors |
attract or pull an organization towards a new location, eg the availability of cheap skilled labor. | pull factors |
colonies with, you guessed it, settlers | settler colonies |
is a massive violent attack on a particular ethnic or religious group with simultaneous destruction of their environment. | pogroms |
continued slave trade on the west coast of Africa | Islamic slave trade |
country founded by freed American slaves | Liberia |
expected age until death - improved due to improved health care, brief drop at beginning of Industrial Revolution due to living conditions | life expectancy rates |
number of babies per 1000 who die at birth | infant mortality rates |
number of births eventually drops again as middle class has less need for many kids | birth rates |