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19&20 Vocab
Wh vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Enclosure Movement | A law that allowed fencing off of common lands forcing people to move to town |
| Capital | Supply of money |
| Entrepreneurs | Someone interested in new business opportunites |
| Cottage Industry | Tasks done by individuals at home |
| Puddling | Coke derived from coal burns away impurities from crude iron to produce high quality iron |
| Industrial Capitalism | An economic system based on industrial production |
| Socialism | Society owns and controls the means of production |
| Conservatism | A political philosophy based on tradition and social stability favoring obedience to political authority & organized religion |
| Principles of intervention | Idea that great powers have the right to send armies into countries where there are revolution |
| Liberalism | A political philosophy based largely on enlightenment principle, holding that people should be as free as possible from government restraint and that civil liberties-the basic rights of all people- should be protected |
| Universal Male Suffrage | The right of all males to vote in elections |
| Multinational State | A state where many nationalities live |
| Congress of Vienna | A group of leaders who made the final peace settlement |
| German Confederation | 38 independent german states |
| Militarism | reliance on military strength |
| Emancipation | the act of setting free |
| Abolitionism | a movement to end slavery |
| Secede | withdraw |
| Regime | the government in power |
| Unification | the act, process, or result of making into coherent of coordinated whole, the state of being unified |
| Romanticism | An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing |
| Secularization | indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration |
| Organic Evolution | The principle set forth by Charles Darwin that every plant or animal has evolved, or changes, over a long period of time from earlier, simpler forms of life to more complex forms |
| Natural Selection | The principle set forth by Charles Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others; in popular terms, “survival of the fittest” |
| Realism | Mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower-and middle class life as it actually was |
| Assembly Line | pioneered by henry ford in 1913, a manufacturing method that allowed much more efficient mass production of goods |
| Mass Production | production of goods in quantity usually by machinery |
| Bourgeoisie | the middle class, including merchants,industrialists, and professional people |
| Proletariat | The working class |
| Dictatorship | A form of government in which a person or small group has absolute power |
| Revisionists | A marxist who rejected the revolutionary approach, believing instead in evolution by democratic means to achieve the goal of socialism |
| Financer | one who deals with finance and investment on a large scale,one who specializes in raising and expending public monies |
| Transition | the move toward one form,stage, or style to another |
| Feminism | the movement for women’s rights |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Literacy | The ability to read |
| Ministerial Responsibility | The idea that the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected legislative body and not to the king or president |
| Duma | The Russian legislative assembly |
| Modernism | a movement in which writers and artists between 1870 and 1914 rebelled against the traditional literary and artistic styles that had dominated European cultural life since the Renaissance |
| Social Darwinism | Theory used by Western nations in the late nineteenth century to justify their dominance;it was based on Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection,”the survival of the fittest” and applied to modern human societies |
| Psychoanalysis | A method by which a therapist and patient probe deeply into the patient’s memory; by making the patient’s conscious mind aware of repressed thoughts, healing can take place |
| Pogroms | Organized persecution or massacre of a minority group |
| Zionism | An international movement originally for the establishment of a jewish national homeland in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel |
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