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World History
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9th Grade
03/10/2011

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Anesthetic
Definition
drug that prevents pain during surgery.
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Enclosure
Definition
the process of taking over and consolidating land formerley shared by peasent farmers
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James Watt
Definition
scottish engineer that looks at Newcome's invention
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Smelt
Definition
to seperate iron from its ore
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Capital
Definition
money used to invest in enterprises
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Enterprise
Definition
business organization in an area such as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories
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Entrepreneur
Definition
those who managed and assumed the finacial risks of starting a new business.
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Putting-out System
Definition
system in which raw cotton was distributed
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turnpikes
Definition
private roads built by entreprenuers who charged travelers a toll, or fee to use them
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Urbanization
Definition
the movement of people to cities
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Tenements
Definition
multisotry buildings divided into apartments.
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Labor Union
Definition
worker organaztion
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Thomas Malthus
Definition
British economist who saw the effects of the population explosion
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Jeremy Bentham
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British Philosopher and economist
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Utilitarianusm
Definition
idea that the goal of society shold be "The greatest happiness for the greatest number" of its citzens
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Socialism
Definition
created to end poverty and injustice
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Means of production
Definition
farms, factories, railways, and other large bisnuesses that produced and distributed goods
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Robert Owen
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Utopian who set up a model community in Lenark, scotland, to put his own ideas into practice
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Karl Marx
Definition
german philosopher condemned the ideas of utopians as unrealiastic idealism
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Proletariant
Definition
working class.
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social democracy
Definition
political ideology in which marks beliefs to form social democracy
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