Vocab Lesson 1
What is the term for money available for investments?
What is Capital?
What is the term for a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production?
What is Socialism?
What is the term for a popular vote?
What is plebescite?
What is the term for a person born on the Iberian peninsula; typically a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe?
What is a peninsulare?
What is the term for the mid 19th century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower and middle class life as it actually was?
What is realism?
What is the term for a method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes?
What is Cottage Industry?
What is the term for the rights of all males to vote in elections?
What is Universal Male suffrage?
What is the term that means "the act of setting free?"
What is Emancipation
What is the term for astrong leader in post revolutionary Latin America, who ruled chiefly by military force, usually with the support of the elite land owners?
What is Caudillo?
What is the term for the priciple that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others?
What is natural selection?
What is the term for the process in which coke, derived from coal, is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron?
What is Puddling?
What is the term for an empire in which many nationalities live?
What is a multinational empire?
What is the term for the movement to end the practice of slavery?
What is abolitionism?
What is the term for a crop that is grown for sale rather than personal use?
What is a cash crop?
in 1845 Luise-Napoleon asked the people of France to vote on makin him ___________________. 97% of the voted yes!
What is Emperor?
What is the term for a person who finds new bisiness opportunities and new ways to make profits?
What is an Entrepreneur?
What is the term for reliance on military strength?
What is militarism?
What is the term for a person oe European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently?
What is Creole?
What is the term for an intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 18th century in reaction to the ideqs of the enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as a source of knowing?
What is Romanticism?
Who ruled England from 1837 to 1901 as the longest reigning monarch in British history?
Who was Queen Elizabeth I
What is the term for an economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing?
What is Industrial Capitalism?
What is the title used for the emperors of the second German Empire?
What is Kaiser?
What is the term for a person of mixed European and Native American descent?
What is mestizo?
What is the term meaning indifference to, or rejectiobn of religion, or religious consideration?
What is secularization?
What was the largest problem in Czarist Russia that many Czars and Czarinas tried to fix but Czar Alexander fianlly did it through and edic on March 3, 1861?
What is Serfdom, or the emancipation of the serfs?