Across
- 1. The practice of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.
- 5. an organization of workers intent on maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment, such as obtaining better wages and benefits.
- 6. A 19th century revolutionary, historian, and economist, best known for publishing The Communist Manifesto.
- 8. the wealthy capitalist middle class who own most of society's wealth.
- 9. the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism.
- 10. the relationship between the quantity of a commodity that producers wish to sell at various prices and the quantity that consumers wish to buy; a key principle of Capitalism.
- 11. a series of negotiations at Berlin, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with imperialism in Africa.
- 13. A Scottish philosopher considered to be the "father" of capitalist thinking.
- 15. the population shift from the countryside (rural areas) to cities
Down
- 2. the theory that individuals, nations, and peoples are subject to the same evolutionary laws of natural selection as plants and animals; was used to justify imperialism and racism in the 19th century.
- 3. the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
- 4. an economic system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
- 7. the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the inhabitants of their colonies.
- 12. A philosophy which argues that capitalism is a self-destructive system that eventually leads to a revolution of the working class so that they can establish an equal and classless society.
- 14. the working class