World History A CP-Unit 3 Review – Flashcards

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Peninsulares
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In Spanish colonial society, a colonist of Spanish ancestry.
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Creoles
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In Spanish colonial society, colonists who were born in Latin America to Spanish parents.
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Mestizos
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A person of mixed European and Indian ancestry.
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Mulattos
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A person of mixed European and African ancestry.
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Conservative
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Usually wealthy property owners and nobility.
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Liberal
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Mostly middle-class business leaders and merchants.
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Radical
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Favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people.
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Nationalism
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The belief that people's greatest loyalty shouldn't be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history.
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Crop Rotation
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One of the best developments by the scientific farmers.
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Industrialization
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The process of developing machine production of goods, required such resources.
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Factors of Production
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The resources needed to produce goods and services that the industrial revolution required.
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Laissez faire
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Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
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Strike
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A refusal to work.
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Fill the pyramid with the social classes of Latin America, from top to bottom.
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Peninsulare Creoles Mestizos Mulattos Native Americans Slaves
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Capitalism
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An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
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Utilitarianism
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The doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
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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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Communism
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A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according or their abilities and needs.
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What were at least four of the factors that contributed to industrialization in Britain?
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Water power and coal, iron ore, rivers, and harbors.
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What factors led to the US' technological boom?
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A wealth of natural resources, among them oil, coal, and iron; A burst of Inventions, such as the electric light bulb and the telephone.
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How did the Industrustrial Revolution prove to be a mixed blessing for women?
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Factories workers offered higher wages then work done at home, but women factory workers usually made only 1/3 of what men did.
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Simón Bolivar
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A revolutionary leader from Venezuela known as the "George Washington of South America."
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José de San Martin
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The Argentinean revolutionary leader who liberated Argentina, Chile, Peru.
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José María Morelos
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He led Mexican rebels against the Spanish after Miguel Hidalgo in 1811.
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Miguel Hidalgo
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A priest from Dolores who issued the call for rebellion in Mexico.
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Louis Napoleon
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He won the French presidential election in 1848, and four years later, he took the title of emperor.
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Alexander ll
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He was the Russian czar, who decided to move Russia toward modernization and social change.
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Jethro Tull
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He was one of the first scientific farmers; invented a seed drill that allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths so that a larger share of seeds took root, boosting crop yields.
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Eli Whitney
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He was an American who invented the cotton gin, which multiplied the amount of cotton that could be clean.
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Adam Smith
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He defended the idea of a free economy, or free markets, in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations.
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Karl Marx
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He was a German journalist who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto, which introduce the world to a radical type of socialism called Marxism.
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