G8 U2 Ch1 Vocabulary

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immigration

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the act of coming to live permanently in a new country

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industrialization

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a shift to the widespread use of machines and factories to produce goods

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urbanization

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the formation and growth of cities

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economy

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the way a country manages its money and resources to produce, buy, and sell goods and services

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malnutrition

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a state of poor health due to not having enough healthy food

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discrimination

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unfair treatment of a person or group because of beliefs about that group of people

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nativism

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a preference for people born in a country rather than immigrants

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capitalism

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an economic system in which resources and businesses are privately owned and the government does not control prices

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laissez-faire

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a philosophy that calls for very little or no government involvement in the economy

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mechanization

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the process of replacing human or animal labor with machine labor