Unit 6 Vocabulary Quiz

Communism is...

• the idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and business.

• a political system characterized by a centrally planned economy with all economic and political power resting in the hands of the central government.

• An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages.

• AN economic system in which decisions and production and consumption of goods and services are based on voluntary exchange in markets.

What describes a strike?

• To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands.

• A person who organizers, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.

• The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land.

• The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit (Japan annexation of Korea).

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• The adoption of a conqueror’s culture by a conquered people; a policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs.

• The application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies – particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.

• A mid-19^th century rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in China, led by Hong Xiuquan.

• The shift, beginning in England during the 18^th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine.

Factors of production are...

• The resources - including land, labor, and capital – that are needed to produce goods and services

• A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.

• A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities

• measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society.

"Surplus" describes

• The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit (Japan annexation of Korea)

• measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society.

• The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land

• an amount that is more than needed, excess

The growth of cities and the migration of people into them can be described as ____________________.

• Capitalism

• Urbanization

• Deurbanization

• Assimilation

A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights is...

• Proletariat

• Maternalism

• White Man's Burden

• Paternalism

Define Standard of Living.

• A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.

• The shift, beginning in England during the 18^th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine.

• The idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and business.

• It measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society.

The Opium War was...

• a conflict between Britain and China, lasting from 1839 to 1842, over Britain’s opium trade in China.

• a so-called "war on drugs" in the United States led by Ronald Reagan in the twentieth century.

• a mid-19^th century rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in China, led by Hong Xiuquan.

• a 1900 revolt in China, aimed at ending foreign influence in the country.

"Proletariat" describes...

• the class who own most of society's wealth and means of production, according to Marxist theory.

• an association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages.

• a factory worker, according to Marxist theory.

• a person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.