Monday, November 15, 2010

hw #20

  1. laissez faire- An economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference.
  2. • Adam Smith- A professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, who defended the idea of a free economy, or free markets.
  3. • capitalism- An economic system in which money is invested in business ventures with the goal of making a profit.
  4. • utilitarianism- A philosophy in which people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their utility, or usefulness.
  5. • socialism-An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all.
  6. • Karl Marx- A German journalist who introduced the world to a radical type of socialism called Marxism.
  7. • communism- A form of complete socialism in which the means of production—all land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses—would be owned by the people.
  8. • union- Voluntary associations and workers join to press for reform.
  9. • collective bargaining-
#3
 factory workers had to work for long hours under dangerous working conditions and had to worry about being laid off. These working conditions caused many people in the 1800s to actively be a past of politics. People joined unions in order to push for reforms to be made. Unions would participate in collective bargaining, a negotiation between workers and employer, in order to get better working conditions and higher wages. If these demands were refused by the employer, then the workers wouldnt go to work or go on strike.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

HW #16

Entrepreneur: A person who organizes, man ages and the takes on the risk of a business

factors of production: resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Revolution required.

Industrilazation: The process of developing machine production of
goods.

Crop Rotation: One of the best developments of the scientific farmers.

Enclosures:

Industrial Revolution: Refers to the greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England during the 18th century.

 Factoryies:Large buildings that had machines.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

• peninsulares- At the top of Spanish American society, men who were born in Spain and could hold high office in Spanish colonial government.
• creoles- Spaniards born in Latin America, ranked after the peninsulares. They couldn't hold high political office but could rise as officers in the Spanish colonial armies.
• mulattos- People of mixed Europeans and African ancestry.
• Simón Bolívar- A wealthy creole who helped many nations gained its independence such as Venezuela.
• José de San Martín- A general who helped Latin American's nations gained its independence such as Argentina.
• Miguel Hidalgo- A priest in the village of Dolores who issued a call for rebellion against the Spanish.
• José Morelos- The leader of the rebels who led the rebellion against eh Spanish after Miguel Hidalgo's defeat.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

hw #15

what did he acomplioshed?
 he was the presidnt of venezuela,He created the Republic of Colombia, which consists of countries that are known today such as Ecuador and Venezuela.

Why was he so famous?
Simon Bolivar was famous because he helped many countries gained their independence from the Spanish Empire. Later on, he would become president of Venezuela as well as Peru.

Who did he work to defeat?
To defeat the Spaniard monarchy.

What was he fighting for in the first place?
He was fighting all the enemies of his home country of Venezuela in order to free the people that was oppressed by the spanish monarchy.

Name 5 countries that are mentioned in the video, and what he did in each of the five countries.

COLOMBIA =], Spain, Venezuela, Ecuador

Thursday, October 14, 2010

The rescue of the 33 miners

33 men were rescued after 69 days being trapped in a mine of San Jose Chile, they spent their fisrt day out in the hospital.Officals didnt say any names of who could come out but they did say that they all corresponded good to the treatment, but 2 of them have the lung desease.

Monday, September 27, 2010

think through history.
people acetd in their own self interestest "hobbes said the ruler needed total power to keep citizens under control"

skill builder.
i didnt understan those questions

Enlightment:


Social contract: people created their ow goverment

John Locke: philosopher fundamental to the u.s declaration of independence

Separation of power: power among different braches?

Jean jacques Rousseau: He was passionate committed to individual freedom.

Mary wollstonecraft: she was a women that argued about like man need education to become virtous and sucessful

Montesquieu: He called an agremment by wich people created goverment.

Voltaire: Garenteed in the U.S bill of rights and french declaration of rights of man and citizen European monarchs reduce persecution.