Unit 5 Vocab

Match each term with its definition

• activist

• one who passionately advocates for a cause

• abolition

• the act of doing away with something (in many instances the term refers to doing away with slavery)

• reform

• verb: to improve or enhance through moderate change; noun: the improvement of wrong or bad conditions, especially by political means

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• consumer

• one who purchases goods or services; a person or thing that consumes

• socialism

• something owed to another, such as money or service

• proletariat

• the social class between the very rich or the aristocracy and lower-class laborers, that includes business people, professionals, farmers, skilled workers, and the like

• middle class

• a political or economic theory in which community members own all property, resources, and the means of production, and control the distribution of goods

• debt

• the working class, especially those that lack capital and must sell their usually unskilled labor in order to survive

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• Industrial Revolution

• a complex mix of economic and social changes caused by the shift of production from hand or physical labor at home or in small workshops to mechanized systems in large factories,

• Industrialization

• the process of introducing industry into a country, region, or the like, usually on a widespread scale

• Industrial Capitalist

• a person who advocates for an economic system in which industry, trade, and capital are all privately owned and operated for profit

• deindustrialization

• the reduction or destruction of a nation’s or region’s industrial capacity

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• export

• to send or transport abroad, usually for sale or trade

• locomotion

• a government tax on imports or exports, or a rate or schedule of such taxes; duty

• tariff

• the act of moving or the power to move from one place to another

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• patent

• a building or set of buildings where products are manufactured

• manufacturing

• a new method, approach, idea, or the like

• factory

• the process or business of producing a large quantity of products, often from raw materials, using machines and human labor

• innovation

• a government grant to an inventor, giving for a specified period of time the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invented device, process, or the like

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• patriarchal

• the biological and/or cultural and psychological characteristics that are associated with different sexes

• gender

• the right to vote in a political election

• suffrage

• a person who advocates for the same social, political, and economic rights for women as for men

• feminist

• a cultural, social, or governmental system in which men hold most societal power

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• steam engine

• a woven or knitted fabric; a fiber or yarn that can be woven or knitted

• textile

• any carbon-containing fuel formed from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals, such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas

• fossil fuel

• an engine in which pressurized steam supplies mechanical energy, usually by moving a piston in a closed cylinder