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JAHKMLHS Chapter 23 Industrialization and Nationalism

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enclosure movement laws   legal process in which a number of small landholdings were combined to create one larger farm whose land was no longer available for communal use  
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capital   money available for investments  
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entrepreneur   person who finds new business opportunities and new ways to make profits  
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cottage industry   method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes  
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puddling   process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron  
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industrial capitalism   economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing  
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Factory Act of 1833   set nine as the minimum age for employment and limited hours for older children  
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socialism   system in which society, usually in the form of government, owns and controls the means of production  
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Karl Marx   believed that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction and that Communism was the inevitable end  
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James Hargreaves   invented a machine called the spinning jenny which made the spinning process much faster  
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James Watt   made changes in the steam engine that enabled the engine to drive machinery  
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Robert Owen   utopian socialist who believed that humans would show their natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment  
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Henry Cort   discoverer of the puddling process for converting pig iron into wrought iron  
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Richard Trevithick   harnessed high-pressure steam and constructed the world’s first steam railway locomotive in 1803  
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Robert Fulton   “father of steam navigation” because he made steamboats a commercial success  
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universal male suffrage   right of all men to vote in elections  
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multinational empire   a group of states or countries in which people of many ethnicities live  
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Frankfurt Assembly   prepared a constitution for a newly united Germany  
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Chamber of Deputies   lower chamber of the French Parliament, elected by census suffrage from 1814 to 1848  
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militarism   policy of a glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared at all times.  
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Kaiser   German for “caesar”; the title of the emperors of the Second German Empire  
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Otto von Bismarck   “Iron Chancellor” who manipulated European rivalries to make Germany a world power  
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plebiscite   popular vote  
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regime   government in power  
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emancipation   act of setting free  
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unification   act, process, or result of making into a coherent or coordinated whole; the state of being united  
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Giuseppe Garibaldi   with an army of 1,000 "Red Shirts" this man captured Palermo and by September had crossed over to the mainland and captured Naples making him master of southern Italy and Sicily  
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Alexander II   convinced by the Crimean War that reform was essential to keep pace with the West this ruler emancipated of the Serfs  
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Compromise of 1867   created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary  
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romanticism   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  
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secularization   indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration  
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natural selection   principle that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others  
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realism   mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle-class life as it actually was  
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Gustav Flaubert   perfected the realist novel; author of Madame Bovary  
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Charles Dickens   showed realities of life for the lower and middle classes in novels such as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield  
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Charles Darwin   promoted the idea that man, as well as other animals, has evolved over a long period of time from earlier, simpler forms of life  
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Louis Pasteur   proposed the germ theory of disease  
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Dmitry Mendeleyev   classified all the material elements then known on the basis of the atomic weights  
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Michael Faraday   primitive generator that laid the foundation for the use of electric current  
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