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12645321671Steam Engine*Definition:* External combustion engine where heat is used to raise steam. *Significance:* Allowed increased productivity and made Industrial Revolution possible (limitless source of power).0
12645321672Indian Cotton Textiles*Definition:* Well made, inexpensive cotton textiles from India. *Significance:* Catalyst for British textile Industry to industrialize.1
12645321673Middle-class values*Definition:* Frowned upon heavy drinking and women were fond of fashion, Education necessary. *Significance:* Characterised middle-class culture and respectability.2
12645321674Lower Middle-class*Definition:* Belief in fate, fortune, and good luck, dependent on peers rather than an individual. *Significance:* Service jobs that were more than 20% of Britain's population and gave women opportunity to work.3
12645321675Ellen Johnston*Definition:* Working class female who labored and wanted to become a poet. *Significance:* Insight to women's lives in the 1800s for the middle class.4
12645321676Karl Marx*Definition:* Founder of modern communism. *Significance:* Conclusion of capitalism as unstable and doomed, thus creating socialist and communist views. It would end the conflict of rich and poor.5
12645321677Labour Party*Definition:* Political party formed in Great Britain focusing on multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance, protecting social welfare. *Significance:* Provided alternative to Marxism.6
12645321678Socialism in the United States*Definition:* Socialist party grew in the 1900's, critiquing the economic system of the United States urged reform and endorsed small scale economy. *Significance:* Minor political movement and gained 6% votes in the election.7
12645321679Progressives*Definition:* Reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way the government works. *Significance:* Advocated reform measures to correct ills of industrialization (1750 - 1914).8
12645321680Russian Revolution of 1905*Definition:* Spontaneous rebellion after defeating at hand of Japan 1905. *Significance:* It was suppressed but it forced the government to make substantial reforms.9
12645321681Latin America Export boom*Definition:* Large scale increase in exports (raw) to industrialized countries. *Significance:* Benefitted middle-class and upper-class.10
12645321682Mexican Revolution*Definition:* Bitter and bloody conflict between middle-class Mexicans who joined with peasants and workers against dictator Porfirio Diaz. *Significance:* Created a new, more democratic political order.11
12645321683Dependent Development*Definition:* Theory that poor countries can still develop economically, but only in ways shaped by reliance on wealthier countries. *Significance:* Term used to describe Latin America's economic growth dependent on European and North American prosperity and decisions.12
12645321684CaudillosMilitary dictator; gained control after independence movements. Strongman who seized control of a government in 19th century Latin america13

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