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The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
What is Urbanization?
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine
What is Industrial Revolution?
Activities that relate to influencing the actions and policies of a government or getting and keeping power in a government
What is Politics?
Racial segregation and discrimination enforced by laws, customs, and practices in especially the southern states of the U.S.
What is Jim Crowe Laws?
A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work, usually in response to employee grievances.
What is a Strike?
The movement of people living in one country into another country, is a fundamental aspect of human history, though it was as controversial hundreds of years ago as it is today.
What is Immigration?
A flexible material comprising of a network of natural or artificial fibers, known as yarn.
What is Textiles?
A circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions or disgraces those associated with it
What is Scandal?
The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
An association of workers formed to negotiate collectively with an employer to protect and further workers' rights and interests.
What is a Union?
The exchange of meanings between individuals through a common system of symbols.
What is Communication?
A device, having a unique purpose, that augments or replaces human or animal effort for the accomplishment of physical tasks. This broad category encompasses such simple devices as the inclined plane, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, and screw.
What is Machinery?
The main objective is to attain power. They compete with each other for the same; there is nothing wrong with objective of gaining power as long as the competition is fair.
What is Political Party?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is Nativism?
An economic system in which private individuals or businesses own capital goods. The production of goods and services is based on supply and demand in the general market—known as a market economy—rather than through central planning—known as a planned economy or command economy.
The purest form is free market or laissez-faire.
What is Capitalism?
The process by which an economy is transformed from a primarily agricultural one to one based on the manufacturing of goods. Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production, and craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines.
What is Industrialization?
The action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials, or the process of being so manufactured.
What is Production?
A form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted with a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.
What is Corruption?
The practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits.
What is Eugenics?
Characterized by a lack of competition, which can mean higher prices and inferior products.
What is Monopolies?
The movement of goods and persons from place to place and the various means by which such movement is accomplished.
What is Transportation?
The use of children as servants and apprentices
What is Child Labor?
A broad term referring to political trends centered around regions, or groupings of people unified around some common trait.
What is Regionalism?
Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
What is Xenophobia?
An allocation of shares held in a company.
What is Shareholding?