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History Vocab.
Industrial Revolution
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History
9th Grade
05/02/2013

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Proletariat
Definition
A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
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Union
Definition
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
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Boxer Rebellion
Definition
Revolt in China where the Chinese attempted to remove all foreigners from their country
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
The thought that it was a mission ordained by God that people in America should settle all of the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans
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Laissez-Faire
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economic principle that government should not regulate businesses
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Slums
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A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
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Nationalism
Definition
the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
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Urbanization
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the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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Karl Marx
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a philosopher who introduced the world to communism, wrote The Communist Manifesto
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Socialism
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a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
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Immigrant
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a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
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Labor Laws
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the laws employers must follow when working with their employees
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Capitalism
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an economic system based on private ownership of capital
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Factory
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a place where things are made. Usually this consists of building that may have many machines to make things. Many of the things you buy in the store are made in one of these.
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Raw Materials
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resource in its natural state such as a mineral that can be used to make a product
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Adam Smith
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His book, The Wealth of Nations, describes his theory on free trade, otherwise known as laissez-faire economics
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Otto von Bismark
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Used a policy of blood and iron to unite German states
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Assembly line
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Ford used this to make mass production of cars. It is a moving belt carrying
unfinished car parts past workers. Each worker put on a single task such as one worker putting on the engine and the other putting on the steering wheel
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Bourgeoisie
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The social class between the lower and upper classes
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Interchangable Parts
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Parts of a product built to a standard size so that they can by easily replaced
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