| A | B |
| Industrial Revolution | The shift, beginning in England during the 18th Century from making goods by hand to making them by machine. |
| Industrialization | the development of industries for the machine production of goods |
| Factors of Production | the resources- including land, labor, and capital - that are needed to produce goods and services |
| Factory | large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods. |
| Urbanization | the growth of cities and the migration |
| Middle Class | a social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers |
| Capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money |
| Impearlism | a policy in which strong nations seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially |
| Social Darwinism | the application of Charles Darwins ideas about evolution and survival of the fitteset to human societies- particularity as justification for impearalism. |
| racism | the belief that one race is superior to others |
| Annexation | the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit |
| Spheres of Influence | a foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and economic activities. |