AP world history pages 227 - 244 Flashcards
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| 335604897 | Industrial Revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation | 0 | |
| 335604898 | Labor Union | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | 1 | |
| 335604899 | Monopoly | (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller | 2 | |
| 335604900 | Nation-State | A country who's population share a common identity. | 3 | |
| 335604901 | Natural Resources | resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature | 4 | |
| 335604902 | Rural | living in or characteristic of farming or country life | 5 | |
| 335604903 | Socialism | a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. | 6 | |
| 335604904 | Marxism | the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded | 7 | |
| 335604905 | Social Class | a group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living | 8 | |
| 335604906 | Wage Labor | a system of payment whereby workers are compensated on the bases of a wage not tied to the quality of the raw materials, accidents, or other exigencies in the production process | 9 | |
| 335604907 | Suffrage | a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution | 10 | |
| 335604908 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | 11 | |
| 335604909 | Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | 12 | |
| 335604910 | Free Market | an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies. | 13 | |
| 335604911 | Free Trade | a system of trade policy that allows traders to trade across national boundaries without interference from the respective governments | 14 | |
| 335604912 | Immigration | migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) | 15 | |
| 335604913 | Enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions | 16 | |
| 335604914 | Capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership of capital | 17 | |
| 335604915 | Trade Union | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | 18 | |
| 335604916 | Nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 19 |