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Chapter 23
Vocabulary - Industrialization and nationalism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Capital | Money Available for investment. |
| Entrepreneur | A person who finds new business opportunities and 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 high quality iron |
| Derived | Obtained From;came from. |
| Industrial Capitalism | An economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing. |
| Socialism | A system in which society, Usually in the form of the government owns and controls the means of productions |
| Multinational Empire | An empire in which people of many nationalities live. |
| Radical | Realting to a political group associated with views, practices and political of extreme change. |
| Militarism | The reliance on military strength. |
| Emancipation | The acting of setting fire. |
| Abolitionism | movement to end slavery |
| Cash Crop | A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal use. |
| Caudillo | In post-revolutionary Latin America, a strong leader who ruled chiefly by military force, usually with the support of the landed elite. |
| Secularization | indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration |
| Realism | A mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle-class life as it actually was. |
| James Hargreaves | invented a machine called the spinning jenny |
| Edmund Cartwright | made it possible for the weaving of cloth to catch up with the spinning of thread. |
| James Wat | made changes that enabled the engine to drive machinery. Steam power could now be used to spin and weave cotton |
| Henry Cort | Developed a process called puddling. In this process, coke, which was derived from coal, was used to burn away impurities in crude iron, called pig iron, and to produce an iron of high quality. |
| Miguel Hidalgo | Was a Mexican Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Leader in the struggle for Italian unification |
| Benito Juarez | 1806-1872, President of Mexico from 1857-1872 |
| Simon Bolivar | Led revolts against Spanish rule in Venezuela, Columbia and Ecuador |