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The fair and standard application of the law to all citizens.
Due Process
Laws and the act of making them.
Legislation
The father of Communism
Karl Marx
a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person's home.
Cottage industry
the closing down or dismissal of an assembly, partnership, or official body.
Dissolution
A system of government that divides power between a national (federal) government and regional (state) governments.
Federalism
To officially approve and express assent to a document or agreement, such as a treaty or constitution.
Ratify
The "Iron" Chancellor
Otto Von Bismarck
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
Social Darwinism
taking all the decisions for the people you govern, employ, or are responsible for, so that they cannot or do not have to make their own decisions.
Paternalism
A political system governed by a few powerful people or a small group.
Oligarchy
An economic policy focused on enriching a home country through foreign trade and establishing colonies.
Mercantilism
Opened Tokyo Harbor to the United States.
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
the act of taking and adding territory to a larger political entity, such as a city, state, or country
Annexation
The transmission and adoption of cultural traits across boundaries.
Cultural diffusion
The act of formally putting an end to a system or practice, most commonly slavery.
Abolition
The formal separation from an alliance or federation, such as the Southern states leaving the U.S. Union before the Civil War.
Secession
"father of modern economics"
Adam Smith
the process of adopting the customs, values, and behaviors of a new or dominant culture
assimilation
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Socialism
The freeing of someone from the control of another, especially from slavery.
Emancipation
A government tax placed on imported or exported goods.
Tariff
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Imperialism
a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
Communism