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Vocab: Inequity- Social Darwinism Flashcards

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A state where the head of a state and other officials are representatives of the people and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the governments power over citizens.

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Constitutional Republic✔️

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An unjust or unfair act or sentence

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Inequity✔️

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A geographically extensive group of states and people united and ruled by a monarch or oligarchy

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Empire✔️

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The state of being equal

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Equality✔️

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Government by the people: rule of the majority

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Democracy✔️

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Rights belonging to all persons

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Human rights✔️

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A constitutional system of government.

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Constitutionalism✔️

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Loyalty and devotion to a nation

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Nationalism✔️

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A federal system of government, a union of one

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Federalism✔️

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Favoring traditional views and values

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Coservative✔️

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Believing That government should be active in supporting social and political change

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Liberal✔️

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One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.

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Reactionary✔️

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Favoritism shown shown to someone on the basis of family relationship.

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Nepotism✔️

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Nepoleon’s name for the Iberian Peninsula. After the French take Spain they were constantly spending resources to maintain control. Napoleon named it the ulcer because of the drain.

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“Spanish Ulcer”✔️

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1814 to 1815. It was an assembly of countries that reorganized Europe after the defeat of Napoleon. The configuration of Europe after the Congress lasted for 40 years.

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*Congress of Vienna✔️

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A novel written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1869. It is a fictional novel about the events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic Era on Russia.

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War and Peace✔️

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Also known as the patriotic war of 1812, in Russia. Napoleon was at the height of his power either directly or indirectly through treaties which gave him control of most of Western and Central Europe with the exception of Russia. June 24th, 1812 Napoleon and the French army marched toward Moscow. The Russians had half the army of the French but outwitted them strategically by retreating and destroying lodging and food resources as they went. Napoleon enters Moscow in October to find it burning. Napoleon was forced to head home with no way of re-supplying his army with food. By November the soldiers were eating the horses. By December they were defeated and only 300,000 men returned home

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The Russian Campaign ✔️

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Distribution of Power between a central government and its sub-national governments.

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Balance of Power✔️

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The current or existing state of affairs.

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Status Quo✔️

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Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for private profit

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Capitalism✔️

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Home based business to support a family.

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Cottage Industry✔️

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A collection of various resources which contribute to producing goods and services.

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Factors of Pruduction✔️

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Wealth either money or property, owned or employed in business to produce more wealth.

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Capital✔️

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Being in excess of what is required.

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Surplus✔️

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Any cloth or goods produced by weaving or knitting.

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Textiles✔️

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The process of which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in an area creating cities

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Urbanization.✔️

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An invention by John Kay in 1733 that made weaving more efficient

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Flying Shuttle✔️

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Designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright it made weaving mechanized and faster

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Power loom✔️

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The process of transforming an agricultural society into an industrial one through social and economic change.

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Industrialization✔️

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Let it be. Adam Smith believed that if you leave the business alone it will run itself with governmental involvement.

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Laissez faire✔️

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Book written by Adam Smith that lays out the structure of government and the economy

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Wealth of Nations✔️

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A system of allocated resources based only on the interaction of market forces such as supply and demand. A true market economy is free of governmental influence

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Market Economy✔️

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The force of people that produces goods and services.

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Labor✔️

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Activities related to the production ad distribution of goods and services.

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Economy✔️

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An individual whose occupation is to buy goods at wholesale prices and sell them at retail prices for profit

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Merchants✔️

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One who owns, directs or has a substantial financial interest in an industrial enterprise.

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Industrialist✔️

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People in a group having the same social economic and educational status

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Social classes✔️

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The power of making a strong impression

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Impact✔️

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Something newly introduced or invented

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Innovation✔️

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Scottish economist, author of The Wealth of Nations, first modern work of economies

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Adam Smith✔️

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German economist, author of The Communist Manifesto. Believed socialism would replace capitalism which would lead to a classless society which is pure communism

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Karl Marx✔️

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German social scientist who was a colleague of Karl Marx.

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Friedrich Engels✔️

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Also called capitalism, economic system where the means of production are privately owned, production is guided and income distributed through the operation of markets

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Free Enterprise✔️

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Political and economic theory that replaces private property with public ownership and communal control of the means of production, a form of socialism

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Communism ✔️

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Exclusion of religious beliefs in government.

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Secularism✔️

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To make better through change, take away faults.

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Reform✔️

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Gradual progressive change I’m a social or economic structure.

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Evolution✔️

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Economic system in which the state directs the economy.

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Command Economy✔️

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Competition between individuals in free-market competition exploiting the idea of survival of the fittest in concern with social class

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Social Darwinism✔️

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