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13064448569Steam 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
13064448570Indian Cotton Textiles*Definition:* Well made, inexpensive cotton textiles from India. *Significance:* Catalyst for British textile Industry to industrialize.1
13064448571Middle-class values*Definition:* Frowned upon heavy drinking and women were fond of fashion, Education necessary. *Significance:* Characterised middle-class culture and respectability.2
13064448572Lower 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
13064448573Ellen 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
13064448574Karl 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
13064448575Labour Party*Definition:* Political party formed in Great Britain focusing on multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance, protecting social welfare. *Significance:* Provided alternative to Marxism.6
13064448576Luddites*Definition:* A secret oath-based organization of English textile workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery. *Significance:* They believed that such machinery would diminish employment.7
13064448577Socialism in the United States*Definition:* Socialist party grew in the 1900's, critiquing the economic system of the United States. *Significance:* Urged reform and endorsed small scale economy. Minor political movement and gained 6% votes in the election.8
13064448578Progressives*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).9
13064448579Russian 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.10
13064448580Latin America Export boom*Definition:* Large scale increase in exports (raw) to industrialized countries. *Significance:* Benefitted middle-class and upper-class.11
13064448581Mexican 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.12
13064448582Dependent 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.13
13064448583Caudillos*Definition:* Military dictator *Significance:* Gained control of a government in 19th century Latin America after independence movements.14

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