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| The shift beginning in England during the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine. |
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| one of the fenced-in or hegded-in fields created by wealthy British landowners on land that was formerly worked by village farmers. |
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| The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land. |
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| The development of industries for the machine production of goods. |
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| The reasources-including land, labor, and capital-that are needed to produce goods and services. |
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| A large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods. |
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| A person who organizes, manages, and takes on risks of a business. |
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| The growth of cities and the migration of people into them. |
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| A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers. |
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| A type of security that signifies ownership in a company where the investor is not responsible for loss but gets retribution on profits. |
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| A business owned by stockholders who are not personally responsible for its debts. |
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| The idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and businesses. |
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| an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit. |
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| The theory, proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700s, that government actions are useful only if they promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people. |
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| An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all. |
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| An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally. |
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| An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages. |
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| To refuse to work in order to force an emplayer to meet certain demands. |
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| In 19th century Britian, members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for for all men. |
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| The republic established in France after the downfall of Napoleon III and ended with the German occupation of France during World War II. |
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| A controversy in France in the 1890s, centering on the trial and imprisonment of a Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany. |
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| A movement founded in the 1890s to promote Jewish self-determination and the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland. |
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| In the Britsh Empire, a nation (such as Canada) allowed to govern its own domestic affairs. |
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