A building in which expensive machinery could be set up to produce textiles and other machine-made goods.

A new British social class during the Industrial Revolution that included skilled workers and professionals.

The economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference.

The economic system in which the factors of production are publicly owned and operate for the welfare of all.

The process of changing what is planted in a field from year to year in order to restore soil nutrients.

A form of complete socialism in which all of the means of production would be owned by the people.

Certain rights of ownership in a business that are sold to raise money to build or expand the business.

An economic system based on private ownership and investments of money in business ventures to make profit.

To refuse to work when a business owner does not meet demands for better pay or working conditions.

The right to vote

A nation, such Canada that is self-governing in domestic affairs, but still a part of the British Empire.

The idea that the U.S. had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

In a factory, a row of workers who each put a single piece on an unfinished product, such as an automobile.

A movement to extend voting rights to all men in Great Britain

The government set up by the French National Assembly in 1875; a republic that lasted more than 60 years.

A movement that began among Jews in the 1890s to pursue the goal of establishing a homeland in Palestine

A member of the nomadic native people who inhabited Australia; the longest ongoing culture in the world.

The unofficial military force seeking independence for Ireland

The withdraw, as Southern U.S. states did when they formed the Confederate States of America