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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Declaration of Independence | Document that expressed the colonists' fight against British rule |
| philosophes | A group of philosophers that popularized the ideals of liberte (liberty), egalite (equality), et fraternite (and fraternity) |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | A statement declaring basic human rights in France |
| Reign of Terror | A period during which the French government executed thousands of opponents of the revolution |
| Liberte, egalite, et fraternite | (liberty, equality, and fraternity) revolutionary ideals in France that were seen as radical |
| Haiti | A French sugar and coffee colony on the western third of the island of St. Domingue, also known as Hispaniola |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | Former slave that joined the revolts in Haiti in 1791 and went on to lead a rebellion against slavery in general |
| Simon Bolivar | A Creaole who pushed for Enlightenment ideals in Latin America |
| Lola Rodriguez de Tio | Recognized Puerto Rican poet who became famous for her eloquent critiques of Spain's exploitative rule over Puerto Rico |
| Propaganda Movement | The publication of magazines, pamphlets and other forms of propaganda advocating for greater autonomy in the Philippines |
| realpolitik | The practical politics of reality |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Leader of the Red Shirts military force |
| immigration | The movement of people into a country from other countries |
| Otto Von Bismark | Prussian leader who used nationalist feelings to engineer three wars to bring about German unification |
| Ottomanism | A movement that aimed to create a more modern, unified state |
| Maroons | Individuals who had already escaped slavery in Haiti |
| mestizos | People born of European and Indian parents |
| peninsulares | Colonists born in Spain or Portugal |
| mulattoes | Those of African and European or Indigeonous ancestry |
| Bastille | Former prison that symbolized the abuses of the monarchy and the corrupt aristocracy |
| spinning jenny | Machine that allows weavers to spin more than one thread at a time |
| water frame | Machine that used waterpower to drive a spinning wheel |
| James Hargreaves | Inventor of the spinning jenny |
| Richard Arckwright | Inventor of the water frame |
| factory system | Large scale manufacturing of goods |
| agricultural revolution | Advancements in agricultural technology in the 1700s, just before the industrial revolution |
| crop rotation | Rotating different crops in and out of a field each year |
| seed drill | A device that efficiently places seeds in a designated spot in the ground |
| Industrial Revolution | Time when new technologies led to a dramatic change in society and economies |
| Industrialization | The increased mechanization of production |
| cottage industry | System in which merchants provided raw cotton to women who spun it into finished cloth in their own homes |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the interchangeable parts system |
| interchangeable parts | System in which a particular component of a machine can be replaced by an identical part because of individual- part manufacturing |
| division of labor | Time in which factory owners no longer relied on skilled laborers to craft every component of a product |
| specialization of labor | Workers focus on one specific task |
| assembly line | Work system in which individual parts are manufactured and then assembled at the end |
| enclosure movement | Fenced off commons to give exclusive use of it to people who paid for the privilege or who purchased the land |
| capital | Money available to invest in business |
| seaways | Inland waterway for ships |
| raw materials | Basic materials of which things are made |
| Manchester & Liverpool | Examples of cities farmers were forced to move to after the start of the enclosure movement |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | Railroad stretching from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean, allowing Russia to Trade easily with countries in East Asia |
| human capital | The workforce |
| company rule | British East India Company's control over parts of the Indian subcontinent from 1757 to 1858 |
| coal | A source of fuel |
| coaling stations | Stations where ships can stop to refuel |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Gugliemo Marconi | Italian physicist who was able to send and receive a radio signal across the Atlantic ocean |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Connected Atlantic and Pacific oceans |
| steam engine | An engine that runs on steam produced by using coal as fuel |
| James Watt | Inventor of steam engine |
| steel | Developed in second industrial revolution |
| oil | Energy source; first commercial oil wells drilled in 1800s |
| capital | Money available to invest in a business |
| second industrial revolution | Occurred in the late 19th century and early 20th century in which advancements were made in chemicals, steel, precision machinery, and electronics |
| Mamluks | Former Turkish slaves who formed a military class |
| Muhammad Ali | Albanian ottoman officer that rose to prominence and was selected to be the new governor of Egypt |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | Leader of a naval squad in 1853 that sailed into Yedo and Tokyo Bay to ask for trade privileges |
| zaibatsu | Powerful Japanese family business organizations |
| automatic loom | A loom in which bobbins are automatically replaced, allowing for faster production |
| Meiji Restoration | The overthrow of the shogun and restored power to the emperor in 1868 |
| Charter Oath | The abolishment of feudalism in 1868 |
| corporation | A business chartered by a government as a legal entity owned by stockholders |
| stockholders | Individuals who buy a partial ownership directly from the company when it is formed or later through a stock market |
| stock market | A market through which you can buy or sell stocks from businesses |
| monopoly | Control of a specific business and elimination of all competition |
| Cecil Rhodes | Founder of De Beers Diamonds and enthusiastic investor in railroads |
| transnational | Companies that operate across national boundaries |
| Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation | A British-owned bank opened in its colony of Hong Kong in 1865 |
| Unilever Corporation | A British and Dutch venture focused on household goods (specifically soap) |
| consumerism | Social and economic order that promotes the buying, or consuming, of goods and products |
| urbanization | The process of making an area more urban |
| Bessemer process | A more efficient was to produce steel |
| socialism | Replaces capitalism in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto |
| Karl Marx | German scholar and writer who argued for socialism |
| Friedrich Engels | Wealthy supporter of Karl Marx |
| Communist Manifesto | Pamphlet published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that summarized their critique of capitalism |
| means of production | The tools and ability to make goods, like machines, factories, mines, and land |
| communism | The final stage of economic development in The Communist Manifesto, in which all class distinctions would end |
| John Stuart Mill | British philosopher that championed legal unions, limit child labor, and ensure safe working conditions in factories |
| Utilitarianism | Seeks "the greatest good for the greatest number of people" and want to address the growing problems of capitalism |
| labor unions | Organization of workers that advocated for the right to bargain with employers and put the resulting agreements in a contract |
| proletariat | Essentially, the working class, working in factories and mines, often for little compensatio |
| bourgeoisie | Included the middle class and investors who owned machinery and factories where workers produced goods |
| bushido | Code of conduct for the samurai |
| genros | Samurai who adjusted to change by serving the government by becoming |
| Mahmud II | A sultan that reformed the Ottoman system |
| Tanzimat | Reforms made by Mahmud |
| Hatt-i-Humayan | An edict that updated the legal system in the Ottoman empire |
| millets | Separate legal courts established by different religious communities, each using its own set of religious laws |
| Self Strengthening Movement | A major reform effort of the late 19th century that developed as a way for the government to face the internal and external problems confronting China |
| Emperor Guangxu | Emperor that was convinced to support sweeping reforms (The Hundred Days Reform) |
| Hundred Days of Reform | Set of reforms in China |
| Empress Cixi | The adopted mother of the emperor and the most powerful political figure in the country |
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