Study Guide 5 Flashcards
(29 cards)
When one country controls the political, economic, and cultural life of another
Imperalism
A room or set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
Tenement
The building of cities and the moment of people to cities
Urbanization
Process of developing machine production of goods
Industrialization
Resources needed to produce goods and services
Factors of production
Economic that favors a free market untouched by the government
Laissez-faire
Large fields surrounded by fences or hedges, in which landowners in which farm owners experiment new farming methods
Enclosure
A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risk of business
Entrepreneurs
Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Corporation
Economic systems in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit
Capitalism
Government system in which the goods you receive are based on how hard you work
Capitalism
Government systems in which the goods you receive are based on needs
Communism
What is one of the main ideas of commensalism
Private ownership
Who invented the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Who were the first people to fly
The wright brothers
Who invented the steam engine
Thomas Newcomen
What invention help trigger the industrial revolution
Steam engine
What are some of the dangers miners faced
Explosions, flooding, collapsing tunnels
What is one of the factors that made great retain the starting place of the industrial revolution
Large supply of money, natural resources, vast colonial empire
What form of transportation used the steam engine to pull up to 10 tons of a material?
Steam carriage
What was the goal of direct rule
Assimilation
What was the goal of indirect rule
Creating future leaders
Countries that imperialized most of Africa
Britain and France
3 reasons why Africa was imperialized
Wealth
Raw materials
Close to be reached by ship
Gold
