VOCAB Industrial Revolution, Reforms, Nationalism, Imperialism

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System for creating identical items in a factory

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Mass production

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Change from 1700s to 1900s: power-driven machines became primary in factories.

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industrial revolution

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Policy of acquiring political control over another country, settling it, and exploiting it economically.

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imperialism

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Process where native people abandon their culture for that of their colonizers.

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assimilation

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Theory of Western racial superiority and imperialism as nature's way of enhancing humanity; 'Survival of the Fittest'.

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Social Darwinism

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A dependent territory with local autonomy and foreign policy controlled by another country (e.g., Great Britain in India).

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protectorate

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Economic belief by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations: government should not interfere with business.

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laissez-faire

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Complete control of production or sale of a good/service by one business.

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Monopoly

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Arrangement of machines/workers making a product one piece at a time in a direct line.

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assembly line

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Right to vote fought for by poor, minorities, and women.

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Suffrage