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| 9536333577 | Caudillo | A military strongman who seized control of a government in 19th century Latin America |  | 0 |
| 9536333578 | Dependent Development | Term used to describe Latin America's economic growth in the 19th century, which was largely financed by foreign capital and dependent on European and North American prosperity and decisions |  | 1 |
| 9536333579 | Indian Cotton Textiles | For much of the 18th century, well-made and inexpensive cotton textiles from India flooded Western markets; the competition stimulated the British textile industry to industrialize, which led to the eventual destruction of the Indian textile market both in Europe and India |  | 2 |
| 9536333580 | Johnston, Ellen | Scottish textile worker and single mother (1835-1875) who became a published poet with a modest local repuatation |  | 3 |
| 9536333581 | Labour Party | British working class political party established in the 1890s and dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism, in time providing a viable alternative to the revolutionary emphasis of Marxism |  | 4 |
| 9536333582 | Latin American Export Boom | Large scale increase in Latin American exports (mostly raw materials and foodstuffs) to industrializing countries in the second half of the 19th century, made possible by major improvements in shipping; the boom mostly benefited the upper and middle class |  | 5 |
| 9536333583 | Lower middle class | Social stratum that developed in Britain in the 19th century and that consisted of people employed in the service sector as clerks, salespeople, secretaries, police officers, and the like; by 1900, this group comprised about 20 percent of Britain's population |  | 6 |
| 9536333584 | Marx, Karl | The most influential proponent of socialism, Marx (1818-1883) was a German expatriate in England who advocated working-class revolution as the key to creating an ideal communist future |  | 7 |
| 9536333585 | Mexican Revolution | Long, bloody war (1911-1920) in which Mexican reformers from the middle class joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the dictator Porfrio Diaz and created a new, much more democratic political order |  | 8 |
| 9536333586 | Middle-class values | Belief system typical of the middle class that developed in Britain in the 19th century, it emphasized thrift, hard work, rigid moral behavior, cleanliness, and "respectability" |  | 9 |
| 9536333587 | Russian Revolution of 1905 | Spontaneous rebellion that erupted in Russia after the country's defeat at the hands of Japan in 1905; the revolution was suppressed, but it forced the government to make substantial reforms |  | 10 |
| 9536333588 | Socialism in the United States | Fairly minor political movement in the United States, at its height in 1912 gaining 6 percent of the vote for its presidential candidate |  | 11 |
| 9536333589 | Steam engine | Mechanical device in which the steam from heated water builds up pressure to drive a piston, rather than relying on human or animal muscle power; the introduction of it allowed a hitherto unimaginable increase in productivity and made the Industrial Revolution possible |  | 12 |
| 9536333590 | Progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way grovernment works, group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s. | 13 |
