AP World History All examinable Terms covered. Rated A+

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AP World History All examinable Terms covered. Rated A+ Agriculture Revolution - ✔✔-resulted in food surplus, farming and the basis to starting strong civilizations. Also, crop rotations, pla... nting crops with higher yield. Enclosure - ✔✔-(Enclosure Movement) public lands that were shared during the Middle Ages, enclosed by fences allowed for private farming and private gain Urbanization - ✔✔-natural growth of the increased efficiencies in farming and agriculture Textile - ✔✔-cloth, linens, clothes Domestic System - ✔✔-cotton woven at homes or small shops as a part of an inefficient, high labor Adam Smith - ✔✔-wrote "The Wealth of Nations"(1776) that economic prosperity and fairness is best achieved through private ownership Free market economy - ✔✔-(capitalism) individuals sell their products and services in a free and open market. Laissez- faire - ✔✔-(capitalism) when government remove themselves entirely from regulation Karl Marx - ✔✔-German economist and philosopher who spent a good part of his adult life living in poverty, pointed out that factory workers had genuine opportunities but were being exploited Friedrich Engel - ✔✔-wrote that the working class would eventually revolt, wrote it with Karl Marx Socialism - ✔✔-mix between government having control and free market Capitalism - ✔✔-people control FOP Communism - ✔✔-government has all of the power Factors of Production - ✔✔-land, labor and capital, that is needed to create/ invent/ product Luddites - ✔✔-(were afraid of machines) destroyed equipment in factories in the middle of the night to protest working condition and pitiful wages. As a result they executed workers Factory Act of 1883 - ✔✔-British Parliament passed the law that limited the hours of each work day, restricted children from working in factories and required factory owners to make working conditions safer and cleaner Labor Unions - ✔✔-unions were vehicles through which thousands of employees bargained for better working conditions or threatened to strike, there by shutting down the factory Standard of Living - ✔✔-family became individual, the standard family was middle class, happy/ healthy= loyal & productive people Social mobility - ✔✔-ability [Show More]

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