AP World History Socialism/ Beginning Of Communism – Flashcards
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Industrial Revolution
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The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.
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Division of Labor
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The assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.
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Steam Engine
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An engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.
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Laissez Faire
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A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
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Cult of Domesticity
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Was a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States and Great Britain.
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Mechanization
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The condition of having a highly technical implementation.
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Utopian Socialism
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Socialism achieved by the moral persuasion of capitalists to surrender the means of production peacefully to the people.
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Socialism
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A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
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Labor Unions
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An organized association of workers, often in a trade profession, former to protect and further their rights and interests.
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Karl Marx
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Founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engles in 1848.
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Anarchism
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Beliefs in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.
