Imperialism and Industrialization Vocab

a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor

• factory systems

• urbanization

• capitalism

• bourgeoisie

the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways society adapts to this change

• industrialization

• capitalism

• urbanization

• migration

a hands-off economic system free from any form of economic interventionism such as regulation and subsidies

• textile

• communism

• capitalism

• laissez-faire

a political theory in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

• capitalism

• urbanization

• imperialism

• communism

a flexible material made by creating an interlocking bundles of yarns or threads, which are produced by spinning raw fibers into long and twisted lengths

• textile

• industrialism

• steam engine

• printing press

the transition to new manufacturing processes in Britain, continental Europe, and the US from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840

• russian revolution

• scientific revolution

• glorious revolution

• industrial revolution

an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit

• capitalism

• communism

• mercantilism

• imperialism

the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labor power

• plebians

• progressives

• proletariat

• peninsulares

a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force

• 95 theses

• Monroe doctrine

• imperialism

• pow pow

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

• communism

• socialism

• Buddhism

• imperialism