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Industrial revolution
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History
9th Grade
05/02/2013

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Boxer Rebellion
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revolt in China where the Chinese attempted to remove all foreigners from their country.
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Laissez- Faire
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ecomonic principle that government shouldn't regulate businesses
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Union
Definition
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.
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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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Slums
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A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions.
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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. Many of things you buy in the store are made in one of these!
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Capitalism
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An economic system based on private ownership of capital.
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Manifest Destiny
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The thought that it was a mission ordained by God that people in America should settle all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
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Socialism
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A political theory advocating state ownership of industry
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Proletariat
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A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages.
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Raw Material
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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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Karl Marx
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a phiophoser who introduced the world to communism, wrote the Communist Manifesto
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Urbanization
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The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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Nationalism
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The doctrine that your national culture an interests are superior to any other.
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Labor Laws
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The laws employers must follow when working with their employees.
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