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Chapter 23

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Chapter 23

Vocabulary
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Capital

Money availiable for investment

Entrepreneur

a person who finds new business opportunities and new ways to make profits
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Cottage Industry

a method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes
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Puddling

the process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron

Industrial Capitalism

an economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing
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Socialism

a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production
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Universal Male Suffrage

the right of all males to vote in elections

Multinational Empire

an empire in which people of many nationalities live
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Militarism

the reliance on military strength
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Plebiscite

a popular vote
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Emancipation

the act of setting free
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Abolitionism

a movement to end slavery
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Creole

a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently

Peninsularea person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe

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Mestizo

a person of mixed European and Native American descent
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Caudilloin post-revolutionary Latin America, a strong leader who ruled chiefly by military force, usually with the support of the landed elite

Cash Crop

a crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal use

Romanticism
an intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing

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Secularization

indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration
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Natural Selectionthe principle set forth by Charles Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others; in popular terms, “survival of the fittest”

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realism
a mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle-class life as it actually was