AP World History Week 21 11-20 Flashcards
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12506437975 | Labor | including thousands of dispossessed farmers from southeastern England evicted from their land as a result of the enclosure movement. | 0 | |
12506445180 | James Watt | from Scotland, invented the steam engine in 1770s. | 1 | |
12506440847 | John Stuart Mill | created economic liberalism that believed that government intervention in and regulation of the economy should be minimal. | 2 | |
12506440848 | Limited Liability Corporation | a business organization in which the owners have limited personal legal responsibility for debts and actions of the business. | 3 | |
12506490933 | Social Changes Brought by Industrialization | the factory system brought a number of changes to family and life: work was carried out outside the home, required to follow schedules, adhere to strict rules, work was done with noisy machines, pace was more rapid than at home, more leisure time, popular interests in theater and sports, mass production of clothing, advertising and social status began to be determined more by wealth than family position. | 4 | |
12506490934 | Enclosure Movement | the fencing of pastureland in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution. | 5 | |
12506497732 | Entrepreneurship | the ability to combine the factors of land, labor and capital to create a factory production. | 6 | |
12506501201 | Factors of Production | land, labor and capital. | 7 | |
12506503803 | Gold Standard | a monetary system in which currency is backed up by a specific amount of gold. | 8 | |
12506511591 | Industrial Revolution | the transition between the domestic system of manufacturing and mechanization of production in a factory setting | 9 |