| A | B |
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| Capital | Money available for investment |
| Entrepreneur | A person interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make profits |
| Cottage Industry | A method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes |
| Puddling | Process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron |
| Industrial Capitalism | An economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing |
| Socialism | A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns ans controls the means of production |
| Principle of intervention | Idea that great powers have the right to send armies into countries where there are revolutions to restore legitimate governments |
| Liberalism | A political philosophy originally based largely on Enlightenment principles, holding that people should be as free as possible for government |
| Conservatism | A political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, favoring obedience to political authority and organized religion |
| Universal Male Suffrage | The right of all males to vote in elections. |
| Kaiser | German for "Caesar", the title of the emperors of the Second German Empire |
| Militarism | Reliance on military strength |
| Plebiscite | A popular vote |
| Abolitionism | A movement to end slavery |
| Secede | Withdraw |
| Romanticism | An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing |
| Secularization | Indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration |
| Organic Evolution | The principle set forth by Darwin that every plant or animal has evolved, or changed, over a long period of time from earlier, simpler forms of life to more complex forms |
| Natural Selection | The principle set forth by Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others; in popular terms, "survival of the fittest" |
| Realism | Mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle-class life as it actually was |
