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6768236237Domestic SystemPutting Out System: merchant-employers "put out" materials to rural producers who usually worked in their homes but sometimes laboured in workshops or in turn put out work to others0
6768236238Economic Liberalismorganization of an economy on individual lines, which means that the greatest possible number of economic decisions are made by individuals or households rather than by collective institutions or organizations1
6768240840Enclosure Movementthe fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution2
6768241627factors of productionLand (including natural resources) Labor Capital Entrepreneurship3
6768242675laissez-faire economicsan economic concept that holds that the government should not interfere with or regulate business and industries4
6768252699limited liability corporationa business organization in which the owners have limited personal legal responsibility for debts and actions5
6768252700stock marketa market where shares are bought and sold6
6768253688transnational companycompanies that are globalized7
6768254379zaibatsua large industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late nineteenth century8
6768254380pogromViolence against Jews in tsarist Russia9
6768254381Maoria member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800CE10
6768254382quantum physicsthe branch of physics concerned with quantum theory11
6768255210theory of natural selectionMore individuals are produced each generation that can survive. Phenotypic variation exists among individuals and the variation is heritable. Those individuals with heritable traits better suited to the environment will survive.12
6768255211theory of relativitylaws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers13
6768258747romanticisma movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual14
6768260105extraterritorialitythe right of foreigners to live under the laws of their home country rather than those of the host country15
6768260106guanobird droppings used as fertilizer16
6768260107Monroe DoctrinePolicy issued by the United States in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers17
6768260808Suez CanalTanziment reforms18
6768260809Treaty of Nanking1824 treaty ending the Opium War that ceded Hong Kong to the British19
6768264059Young TurksSociety founded in 1889 in the Ottoman Empire; its goal was to restore the constitution of 1876 and to reform empire20
6768264060Congress of ViennaRewriting the borders of European after Napoleon's defeat (1814)21
6768265354communisman economic system in which the state controls the means of production22
6768266733Declarion of IndependenceUSA constitution23
6768266741Declaration of the Rights of Man and the CitizenA statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution24
6768267921Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female CitizenA statement of the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man25
6768267922Gran ColumbiaThe temporary union of the north portion of South America after the independence movement led Simon Boliver, ended by 183026
6768268848JacobinsExtreme radicals in the French Revolution27
6768268849Jamaica Letterletter by Simon Bolivar, expressed his hope that freedom from Spanish rule would ensure prosperity for Latin America28
6768268850Maroon societiesRunaway slaves in the Caribbean who established their own communities to resist slavery and colonial authorities29
6768269628liberialismAn enlightenment philosophy that favoured civil rights, the protection of private property and representative government30
6768269629natural rightsprinciples that govern nature31
6768270419proletariatIn Marxist theory, the class of workers in a an industrial society32
6768270420queu33
6768271412self-strengthening movementa late 19th century movement in which the Chinese modernized their army and encouraged investment in factories and railways34
6768271413system of checks and balancesconstitutional system in which each branch of government places limits on the power of the other branches35
6768272140universal male suffragethe right of all males within a given society to vote36
6768275039socialismpolitical movement originating in 19th century Europe emphasized state control of the major means of production37
6768278758economic imperialismcontrol of a country's economy by the businesses of another nation38
6768281006Great Trekmigration of Boers from Cape Colony to the interior of South Africa39
6768281007imperialisma policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force40
6768281008Manifest Destinythe 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.41
6768282195RajBritish sovereignty in India42
6768282196sepoysSouth Asian soldiers who served in the British Army in India43
6768282197Social Darwinismthe application of Darwin's philosophy of natural selection to human society44
6776877557gold standarda monetary system in which currency is backed up by a specific amount of gold45

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