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Unit 5 Terms & Q's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolutism? | Monarchy controls everything |
| Economic theory that leaves "every man for himself" | Capitalism |
| Root word of imperialism | Empire |
| When did the Western hemisphere free itself from European control? | Early 1800s |
| Ethnocentrism | Belief that your culture, race, religion, and government is the best |
| What is pride in one's country instead of a specific leader? | Nationalism |
| Group of people applied the theory of natural selection to sociology | Social Darwinists |
| What is "White man's burden"? | Europeans have the moral obligation to teach others how to be civilized |
| Why was China called the Middle Kingdom? | They thought they were the center of the world |
| New technologies developed in the Industrial Revolution? | Telegraph, Telephone, Radio, National Postal System, Steamship, Railroad, Trains |
| Big farm that only produces one crop? | Plantation System |
| What was Monroe Doctrine? | President Monroe said that Europeans could NOT intervene with countries in Western Hemisphere |
| What made Egypt significant commercial and political power? | Suez Canal |
| England gets opium from India, and sells to? | China |
| Opium lets what flow out of China? | Silver |
| Extraterritoriality | Crime committed in another country by a visitor. Foreign country can not punish visitor; home country punishes person |
| What changed due to Industrial Rev.? | People moved to cities |
| What improved farming? | Second ag. rev. 18th Cent. (Modern fertilizer and steam equipment) |
| Who is father of Capitalism? | Adam Smith |
| What was Adam Smith's philosophy | Government should NOT interfere with economy |
| Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith's book about Capitalism |
| Electricity overtakes steam and coal as: | Power Source |
| Marx's name for the working class? | Proletariat |
| What class was born because of Industrial Rev.? | Working class |
| Marx's name for middle class? | Borgeoisse |
| What began to be determined more by wealth than family position in unit 5? | Social status |
| Marxism is same as | Communism |
| Lightbulb created what? | Work shifts, now people could work into the night |
| Karl Marx wrote what? | Communist Manifesto |
| Charles Dickens wrote of what? | Social ills of industrialization |
| What did the Ludites do? | Destroyed factory equipment and protested working conditions and wages |
| First Industrial war? | United States Civil War |
| Monoculture? | One crop is grown |
| What happened in "Banana Republic?" | U.S. took over islands and forced them to grow bananas. They grew bananas and shipped them to America for cheap prices |
| Why didn't Russia have a "real" culture? | Mongol rule |
| What is the Meiji Restoration? | It turns on the power switch for Industrialization in Japan |
| Who brought huge boats to Japan and forced them to trade? | Commodore Perry |
| Who are the zaibatsu? | Super rich families that start business in Japan. There were four big rich families that formed companies |
| What doubled in Britian in 1700s? | Population almost doubled 5 million to 9 million |
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