a change from the 1700s to 1900s when power-driven machines became

the primary type f production in factories

the policy of acquiring full or partial political control over another country,

occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically

process by which native people are forced to give up their own culture and

adopt the culture of their colonizers or rulers

a popular theory in the late 18th

and early 19th

centuries that Western

(European) racial superiority and imperial domination was simply nature’s

way of improving the human species; “Survival of the Fittest”

a dependent territory that has been given local autonomy (self-rule) and

some internal independence while the foreign country controls the territory’s

foreign policy; ex: Great Britain in India)

economic belief, proposed by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, that

government should not interfere with the operation of businesses

complete control of the production or sale of a single good or service by a

single (one) business

an arrangement of machines or workers in which a product is made one

piece at a time as it passes through an organized, direct line

the right to vote in political elections that poor, minorities and women had to

fight to receive