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cartel | association of large corporations formed to fix prices, set production quotas, or divide up markets |
corporation | business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investment |
suffrage | right to vote |
Henry Bessemer | developed a process to purify iron ore and produce a new substance, steel |
Garibaldi | the "sword" of Italian unification |
Cavour | the "brains" of Italian unification |
Mazzini | the "soul" of Italian unification |
Otto von Bismarck | the person responsible for the unification of Germany |
pogrom | violent attack on a Jewish community |
nationalism | feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country |
coalition | temporary alliances of various political parties |
imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
isolationism | policy of limited involvement in world affairs |
genocide | deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
extraterritoriality | right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation |
Sun Yixian | first president of the new Chinese republic in 1911 |
Muhammed Ali | father of "modern Egypt" |
Benito Juarez | a reformer who worked in Mexico |
Matthew Perry | opened Japan for the United States |
regionalism | loyalty to a local area |