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| 324366846 | Urbanization | A natural outgrowth of the increased efficiencies in farming and agriculture. | 0 | |
| 324366847 | Domestic System | Early industrial labor system in which workers produced goods at home. | 1 | |
| 324366848 | Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin, thereby allowing massive amounts of cotton to be quickly processed in the Americas and exported to Europe. | 2 | |
| 324366849 | Enclosure | Public lands that were shared during the Middle Ages were enclosed by fences, which allowed for private farming and private gain. | 3 | |
| 324366850 | George Stephenson | Built the first steampowered locomotive. | 4 | |
| 324366851 | Interchangeable Parts | Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring. | 5 | |
| 324366852 | Free Market System | Pure capitalism, in which all economic decisions are made without government intervention. | 6 | |
| 324366853 | Karl Max | A German economist and philosopher who spent a good part of his adult life living in poverty. | 7 | |
| 324366854 | Socialism | A political theory advocating state ownership of industry. | 8 | |
| 324366855 | Communism | A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | 9 | |
| 324366856 | Luddites | A group of workers who destroyed equipment in factories in the middle of the night to protest working conditions and pitiful wages. | 10 | |
| 324394799 | Factory Act of 1883 | Limited hours of each workday, restricted children from working in factories, and required factory owners to make working conditions safer and cleaner. | 11 | |
| 324394800 | Mobility | The ability of a person to work his way up from one social class to the next. | 12 | |
| 324394801 | Opium War | War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories. The victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China. | 13 | |
| 324394802 | Treaty of Nanjing | The first of what came to be known as the "unequal treaties," by which Britain was given considerable rights to expand trade with China. | 14 | |
| 324625032 | Boxer Protocol | Demanded that China not only pay the Europeans and the Japanese the costs associated with the rebellion but also apologize. | 15 | |
| 324625033 | Sino-French War | A war fought between China and France in 1883 in which the Chinese lost control of Vietnam to the French where they established Indochina. | 16 | |
| 324625034 | Treaty of Shimonoseki | (1895) China was forced to hand over control of Taiwan and grant the Japanese trading rights similar to those it had granted the Europeans. | 17 | |
| 324625035 | Treaty of Kanagawa | (1854) Treaty between Japan and the US. Japan agreed to open two ports to American ships. | 18 | |
| 324625036 | Why did South Africans organize the African National Congress? | In an effort to oppose European colonialism and specific South African policies. | 19 | |
| 324625037 | Spheres of Influence | Areas in which the European powers invested heavily, built military bases, and set up business, transportation, and communication operations. | 20 | |
| 324625038 | Open Door Policy | A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. | 21 | |
| 324625039 | Indian National Congress | Was formed by Indians to begin the path toward independence. | 22 | |
| 324625040 | Explain the Taiping Rebellion | The Taipings were led by a religious zealot claiming to be the brother of Jesus, recruited an army nearly a million strong and nearly succeeded in bringing down the Manchu government. | 23 | |
| 324625041 | White Lotus Rebellions | Peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty led by the Buddhist cult known as the White Lotus Society. | 24 |
