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Period 3 (1750-1900)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Ruled France during French rev after the First French Republic, had Napoleonic Code to spread rev ideals+modernize, expanded France through Napoleonic Wars |
| Reign of Terror | period of execution during French Rev of ppl against Enlightenment ideas led by the Committee of Public Safety |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | French Revolution document declaring that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights" |
| Bastille | Prison in France where ppl were arrested without trial (tyranny) |
| bourgeoisie | commoners, owned means of production during capitalism |
| Estates General | representative assembly in France, allowed upper class to outvote lowest class (bourgeoisie) which was 97% of the pop |
| The French Revolution | ended the rule of Louis XVI, inspired by American rev, caused by unfair Estates General |
| Declaration of Independence | document where 13 colonies announced their separation from Great Britain and explained their reasons, inspired by Locke |
| Theodor Herzl | Founded Zionist movement |
| Zionism | belief that Jewish people have a right to self-determination and a homeland (Palestein) |
| Abolitionism | movement aimed at ending slavery and the slave trade |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | applied Enlightenment principles of reason, liberty, and individualism to women's status |
| Feminism | gender equality, challenging patriarchal structures |
| Classical liberalism | enlightenment ideology: limited government, individual rights (life, liberty, property), and free-market capitalism |
| Robert Owen | founded utopian socialism movement |
| Utopian socialists | Movement supporting socialism |
| Socialism | political +economic ideology of a group of ppl owning the means of production, reduce the inequalities of capitalism |
| Conservatism | ideology favoring tradition and social stability over rapid change/revolution |
| Capitalism | private ownership of the means of production, driven by market competition and exchange |
| laissez-faire | Self regulating markets, reduced gov interaction w economy |
| Adam Smith | Father of laissez-faire capitalism, against mercantilism |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Believed that who said that ppl should have a say in making laws (consent of the governed) |
| Voltaire | Believed in freedom of speech+religion |
| Baron Montesquieu | Believed in 3 branches of gov (judicial, legislative, executive) = checks+balances, separation of powers |
| Philosophes | Enlightenment intellectuals who favored reason, individualism, scientific thought over traditional authority |
| Social contract | individuals voluntarily surrender some natural freedoms to a government in exchange for the protection |
| John Locke | Everyone is born with natural rights (life, liberty, property) and it should be protected by the gov |
| Thomas Hobbes | didn't believe people deserved enlightenment rights |
| Nationalism | belief that one’s own country, culture, or nation is superior |
| Enlightenment | Philosophers applied natural laws to society and government to bring about change |
| The Haitian Revolution | first successful slave revolt in Caribbean against France, inspired by French rev |
| Toussaint L’Ouverture | former slave who led Haitian rev |
| Simon Bolivar | Creole who led Latin-American revolutions against Spanish rule to empower creoles, sought help from British rule in Jamacia (wrote Jamacia letter) |
| “Jamaica Letter” | written to British colonial rule in Jamacia justify leadership and the independence cause while seeking foreign support (got support) |
| Propaganda Movement | movement in Phillippines seeking equality rather than independence from Spanish colonial rule, Spain ignored |
| Congress of Vienna | ruled France after Napoleon, aiming to restore monarchy and a balance of power in Europe |
| Italian Unification | Nationalist movement that unified the Italian Peninsula from city-states to 1 nation |
| Count Cavour | Led Italian Unification |
| Realpolitik | political philosophy that prioritized national interests over ideology, unified Geramany+Italy |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | Italian nationalist who led Italian Unification |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Italian general who expanded Italy |
| German Unification | merging independent German states into a single nation-state |
| Otto von Bismarck | led German-unification |
| Three Wars of Unification | establish a unified German Empire by removing influence of other nations over German territory |
| Balkan Nationalism | movement driven by ethnic groups to get independence from Ottoman Emp |
| Ottomanism | ideology promoting a unified identity for all citizens across the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire |
| Industrial Revolution | transition from handmade to machine-driven manufacturing |
| Agricultural Revolution (18th century) | shift commercial farming (farming to sleep crops in markets), crop-rotation, seed drill,= increased pop=more ppl to work in factories |
| Seed drill | mechanically planted seeds, part of agricultural rev |
| Cottage industry | manufacturing textiles in homes to sell in markets, part of agricultural rev |
| Spinning jenny | accelerated textile production, shifting manufacturing from homes to factories |
| Water frame | water-powered spinning machine that revolutionized textile production |
| Interchangeable parts | identical parts that allowed for faster assembly, easier repairs, and lower production costs |
| Enclosure Movement | Britain closed off lands to wealthy landowners+aristocracy, made less farmers= more ppl to work in factories |
| Manchester and Liverpool | English cities/urban centers, poor working/living conditions |
| Steam engine | engine powered by coal, shift from water/animal power to fossil fuels |
| James Watt | created steam engine |
| Coaling stations | refueling points on trade routes (ships) |
| Second Industrial Revolution | steel, chemicals, precision machinery |
| Transcontinental Railroad | RR across US, linked Atlantic+Pacific (California) coasts |
| Tenements | cramped, low-rise, and unsanitary apartment buildings where working class lived |
| Slums | densely populated, urban settlements with poor living conditions |
| Working class (blue-collar) | worked in factories and mines, low class |
| White-collar | managers, accountants, and clerks (not manual labor), middle class |
| Mass production | goods were cheaper+more accessible |
| Labor unions | response to harsh industrial factory conditions, wanted higher wages, shorter hrs, safer working spaces |
| Suffrage | right to vote, women wanted suffrage=protests+campaigns driven by Enlightenment ideals |
| Factory Act of 1833 | British law limiting child labor in textile mills to improve working conditions |
| John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill- British philosopher who promoted social reforms+free speech, Utilitarianism- best action makes largest number of people happy |
| Karl Marx | founded Marxism, believed history is a struggle between the working class and the owning class |
| Friedrich Engels | founded Marxism with Karl Marx |
| Communist Manifesto | political document analyzing class struggle and the flaws of capitalism |
| Proletariat | working class |
| Means of production | instruments of labor (machines, tools, factories) and subjects of labor (raw materials) |
| Communism | far left, political social, and economic ideology that establishes a classless society, public ownership of the means of production |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | railway linking Moscow to the Pacific, industrialization project in Imperial Russia |
| Company rule | BEIC went from trading entity to a sovereign political power in India |
| Muhammad Ali | Ottoman military leader who modernized+expanded Egypt |
| Commodore Matthew | US Navy Officer, sail ships into Japan ending their period of isolation, forced them to opened ports for trade, led to Japan industrializing |
| Meiji Restoration | political and social revolution in Japan that ended Tokugawa Shogunate, restored imperial rule under Emperor Meiji, and rapidly modernized/industrialized |
| Zaibatsu | Japanese family business organizations during Meiji Restoration= facilitate industrialization |
| Mahmud II and Tanzimat | Mahmud II- modernized the Ottoman Empire, got rid of janasarries, Tanzimat- reforms in Ottoman to modernize |
| Young Turks | nationalist reform party in the declining Ottoman Empire, wanted to modernize |
| Self-Strengthening Movement | Qing Dynasty initiative to modernize China’s military and economy (failed- went into century of Humiliation after), adopt Western technology, and resist imperialism |
| Emperor Gaungxu | Emperor of Qing during Self-Strengthening Movement |
| Empress Dowager Cixi | Ruler Qing after Gaungxu, supported industrialization, managed rebellions |
| Old Imperialism vs. New Imperialism | old- coastal trading posts in Africa/Asia, colonization of the Americas, mercantilism, "3 Gs", new- industrial control over vast interior regions of Africa/Asia for natural resources, driven by capitalism |
| Social Darwinism | "survival of the fittest" theory to human societies, arguing that white European nations were superior |
| “White Man’s Burden” | white Europeans and Americans had a moral obligation to "civilize" non-white populations, justified imperialism |
| Protectorate | indirect colonial rule- weaker state/territory has its local gov but surrenders control over foreign affairs, defense, and key economic matters to imperial state |
| Sphere of influence | regions where an external power has control without direct colonization |
| Dr. Livingstone | European explorer in Africa, spread Christianity, wrote abt brutal slave trade=helped fuel the anti-slavery movement |
| Leopold II | Belgian king, had control over Congo (colony in central Africa- rubber), brutal ruler (cut off ppls hands) |
| Scramble for Africa | division and colonization of African territory by European powers for raw materials |
| Berlin Conference | European powers who controlled Africa during Scramble for Africa met to negotiate rules to avoid war (initiated Scramble for Africa) |
| Suez Canal | Waterway in Egypt, connects Mediterranean+Red seas, between Asia+Africa, reduced travel time between Asia+Europe, controlled by Britain |
| Corvee laborers | unpaid laborers of the state who worked as form of tax |
| British West Africa | along gold coast, coastal trading posts, wanted raw materials |
| Settler colony | foreign ppl migrate to new land for a new home, type of colonialism, no economic intentions |
| Cape Colony | VOC's maritime refueling station on the southern tip of Africa |
| Boer Wars | British vs Boyer republics (S Africa=gold+diamonds) for independence, failed |
| Congo Free State | Central African state under rule of Leopold ii (free= not directly under rule of Belgium), forced labor to extract rubber and ivory |
| Pan-Africanism | political and cultural movement promoting unity and self-determination among Africans |
| Sokoto Caliphate | Islamic W African state, not controlled by imperial power, had capitalist eco |
| Xhosa Cattle Killing | anti-colonial movement in S Africa, sacrifise cattle=ancestors will rise and kick out British, caused famine=weak=British control |
| Zulu Kingdom and Anglo-Zulu-War (Zulu Rebellion) | S African state, Zulu ppl rebeled against British for independence, failed |
| Samory Toure’s War | Wassoulou resistance against French colonial expansion in West Africa |
| Mahdist Rebellion | Sudanese (Islamic) rebelled against Yaa Asantewaa War |
| Yaa Asantewaa War | Ashanti Emp against Yaa Asantewaa War |
| Battle of Adwa | Ethiopians resisted Italian imperialism |
| Opium War | Qing vs Britain+France, China resisted BEIC bringing opium from India into China to sell in China for silver for goods, Britain won |
| Treaty of Nanjing | Unequal treaty that ended Opium war, forced China to open 5 ports, broke Canton sys |
| extraterritoriality | foreigners in a host country are subjected only to the laws of their native nation, westerners in China |
| Taiping Rebellion | civil war in Qing China to overthrow the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty |
| Boxer Rebellion | uprising in China to expel Christians and foreigners, Boxers failed |
| Second Opium War and Treaty of Tientsin | 2nd OW- Britain+France wanted to expand ports+fully legalize opium trade, Treaty- ended war, forced Qing to open more ports+gully legalize opium trade |
| Economic Imperialism | indirect control where industrialized nations exploited non-industrialized regions for raw materials, markets, and labor |
| “Banana Republics” | Latin American nations whose ecos were dominated by bananas for export and controlled by foreign corporations |
| Indochina | SE Asian region- rubber, rice, minerals (Indian+Chinese culture), governed by France, later gained independence |
| Malaya | E Asian British colony, invaded by Japan for rubber, Japan won and then took control |
| Siam | SE Asian country that westernized to avoid imperial powers |
| Culture system | Dutch colonial policy in Indonesia, required farmers to devote a portion of their land and labor to growing export crops, led to famine+resistance (connection to encomienda) |
| Trail of Tears | deadly relocation of Indigenous people from US to the west, result of Indian Removal Act |
| Monroe Doctrine | Declared Western Hem closed to European colonization |
| Manifest Destiny | American ideological belief that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand westward |
| Spanish-American War | sparked by explosion of US naval ship (USS Maine), US supported Cuba's independence in Spain, US won ending Spain's colonial presence in the Americas and Pacific |
| Great Game | Britain vs Russia for supremacy in Asia |
| Nationalist movements in the Balkans | Ethnic ppl rise against Ottoman, sucessful |
| Cherokee Nation and Indian Removal Act | Cherokee Nation: land of Native Americans, IRA: forced NAs to travel west (Trail of Tears) |
| Ghost Dance | Spiritual dance around native Americans to remove white settlers, get back lands, and bring back deceased ancestors |
| Tupac Amaru II | indigenous leader in Peru, led uprising against Spanish, protested mit'a sys, unsuccessful (rebelled before spanish american war) |
| Philippine-American War | Filipinos rebelled against US control, US won and maintained control |
| Aboriginal | Indigenous peoples of Australia, resisted British colonization |
| Maori Wars | Maori ppl resisted British colonization (New Zealand), Britain won |
| Indian Rebellion of 1857 (Sepoy Mutiny) | uprising against BEIC, resulted in taking control of India (British Raj), sepoys (Indian soldiers) offended by Britain using cows (sacred to Hindus)+pigs (sacred to Muslims) fat to grease riflels, though BEIC wanted to convert them to Christianity |
| British Raj | British imperial rule over India, result of Sepoy Mutiny |
| Indian National Congress | Nationalist movement that led India to independence from Britain, non-voilent |
| Corporations | business owned by large company, business owners weren't responsible for financial losses |
| Stockholders | ppl w partial ownership of a company |
| Monopoly | control of a business+elimination of all competition |
| Cecil Rhodes and De Beers Diamonds | Cecil Rhodes- founded De Beers Diamond, company had monopoly over diamonds in Africa |
| Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation | British bank in Hong Kong (China) to promoted European+Asian trade |
| Unilever Corporation | British+Dutch consumer goods (soap) |
| Consumerism | belief that excessive consumption of goods is good for the economy |
| Cash crops | grown for commercial value not for use of who grew them, grown by farmers under imperial rule |
| Guano | bat+Bird poop used as fertilizer in tropics |
| Export economies | mass export of raw materials to industrial nations |
| Apartheid | racial segregation against white minority called "National Party" in Africa, gave colored ppl rights and not whites to maintain minority |
| monocultures | growing 1 $ crop for global markets |
| Indentured servants | servant who signed a contract to work a certain # years |
| Penal Colonies | settlements used to isolate criminals from society |
| Diaspora | dispersion of group of ppl from homeland (Atlantic slave trade, Monroe doctrine) |
| Great Famine | Irish potatoes famine, caused migration, caused by mold in water, resented British for taking their crops |
| Ethnic enclaves | areas in foreign cities where migrants from same country settled to maintain culture (China town) |
| Gold Rush | migration to California bc gold was found |
| Mohandas Gandhi | leader of Indian National Congress, ended British colonial rule |
| Guyana; Trinidad and Tobago | Guyana: S America, Trinidad+Tobago: Caribean, transitioned from British colonial rule to Parliament democracies, export economies |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Banned Chinese migration into US, blamed them for limited job opportunities |
| Chinatowns | Ethnic enclaves of Chinese immigrants |
| White Australia Policy | excluded non-Europeans immigrating to Australia for white superiority |