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Industrial Revolution

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Edward Jenner   show
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capitalism   show
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England   show
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show Formed because of awful working conditions of the Industrial Revolution. Worker-organized strikes to demand better wages and working conditions. Lobbied for laws to improve, demanded worker's rights  
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factory work   show
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Scramble for Africa   show
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protectorates   show
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show Steam engine - revolutionized travel in Western Europe. People were able to travel more efficiently with steam railway and steamboats. Steam was also used to power the machines in factories  
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James Hargreaves   show
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Henry Bessemer   show
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show Cotton gin - machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds, reduced the labor of removing seeds. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for land and slave labor  
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Louis Pasteur   show
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Karl Marx   show
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show Owners of mines and factories exercised considerable control over the lives of their laborers, those involved in the steel & coalmine industry often would build company towns. Trapping the workers, cycling money  
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Zulu Wars   show
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show wrote The Wealth of Nations. He promoted the idea of a free market  
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show areas in which Europeans settled and recreated European institutions and power structures. The area colonized was no longer an independent country- it became a possession of the mother country  
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Boxer Rebellion   show
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sphere of influence   show
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show Women began to work out of the home rather than in "cottage industries"  
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women's sufferage   show
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socialism and communism   show
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middle class   show
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Hindu Nationalism   show
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Enclosure Movement   show
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show written by Adam Smith. Supply and demand would regulate prices and wages. Government take a hands-off approach. Instead private entrepreneurs and their consumers would be the driving force of the economy  
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The Communist Manifesto   show
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