Chapter 9 Test Flashcards
Entrepreneurs
Interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make a profit.
Capital
Ready supply of money
Cottage Industry
Tasks done by individuals (two-step process) in rural homes to produce cotton
Puddling
Coke (from coal) was used to burn away impurities in crude iron, known as pig iron, to produce iron of high quality.
Industrial Capitalism
Economic system based on industrial production; cause of the production of a industrial middle class.
Socialism
System in which society, usually in the form of a government, owns and controls some means of production, such as factories or utilities.
Conservatism
Political philosophy based on tradition and social stability.
Principle of intervention
Great powers had the right to send armies into countries where there are revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs.
Liberalism
Political philosophy based largely on enlightenment principles, held that people should be as free as possible from government restraint (Locke).
Universal male suffrage
All adult men could vote
Militarism
Reliance on military strength.
Kaiser
Emperor
Plebiscite
Popular vote
Emancipation edict
Edict that frees the serfs
Abolitionism
A movement to end slavery.
Secede
A withdrawal
Romanticism
Reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Conscription
A military draft
Mobilization
Process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war.
Propaganda
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
Trench warfare
Trenches in the English Channel that kept both sides of the war virtually in the same position for four years
War of attrition
War based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses.
Soviets
Councils composed of representatives from the workers and the soldiers.
War communism
Used to ensure regular supplies for the Red Army.
