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Modern World Histor

modern world history midterm

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Cash crop A crop grown to sell on the world market
Extraterritoriality The right of foreigners to live under their won laws and to be tried in their own courts.
Genocide The destruction of an entire religious or ethnic group.
Indemnity Payment for losses in a war.
Protectorate An imperialist system in which local rulers were left to rule.
Ci Xi Powerful, conservative Chinese ruler.
Menelik II- Ethiopian ruler who successfully resisted the Italians
Muhammad Ali Egyptian leader who laid the foundation for modern Egypt
Ram Mohum Roy Founder of Indian nationalism.
Benjamin Disraeli- Leader of the Conservative party and prime minister in Britain who fought for social reforms.
Frederick Douglas- Former slave who spoke out against slavery
Alfred Dreyfus French army officer unjustly convicted of spying.
William Gladstone Leader of the Liberal part and prime minister in Britian who pushed for reform in Ireland
Emmeline Pankhurst British suffragist leader who supported the use of violence.
Anarchist- Aperson who wants to abolish all government
Pogrom An organized massacre of helpless people
Realpolitik- Otto von Bismarck’s political philosophy
Refugee People who flee their homeland for safety in another place.
Zemstvo Elected local assemblies in Russia
Alexander II- Abolish (free) the serfs in Russia. “It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it is abolished form below”
Francis Joseph- 18 years old emperor of Austria, king of Hungary.
Giuseppe Garibaldi Man who lead the red shirt volunteer. “Follow me, you glorious Red Shirts, and together we will create an Italian republic”
Otto Von Bismarck Statesman whose actions united Germany. “Germany must be unified at any price.”
Assembly line- A way of organizing workers and machines in order to assemble a finished product efficiently.
Corporation A business owned by stockholders.
Impression A style of painting that tries to capture the fleeting effects of light on an object.
Social Darwinism The idea that the fittest would always beat out their competitors, whether in war or industry.
Suffrage- The right to vote.
Louis XVIII King of france who was restored to the throne by the Congress of Vienna.
Adam Smith Laissez-fair economist.
Toussaint L’ Ouverture who lead the slaves. General who led haitians to independence.
Urbanization movement of people to cities.
Enclosure- The process of taking over and fencing off land formerly shared by peasant farmers.
Socialism- the people as a whole rather than private individuals would own and operate the means of production
Factories- places that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of good.
Utilitarianism- the idea that the goal of society should be “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” of its citizens.
John Wesley- founded the Methodist Church. He stressed the need for a personal sense of faith.
Koch- German physician who find bacteriology cause the tuberculosis.
Karl Marx- a German philosopher who sees class struggle are unavoidable.
Jethro Tull made seed drill.
Pasteur- French doctor who proved the “germ theory
British North American Act- Law that created the Dominion of Canada.
Caudillos- Local strongmen in Latin American nations.
Economic dependence- Relationship in which a less-developed nation’s trade is controlled by a developed nation.
Indigenous- Original
Monroe Doctrine- Document that closed the Americas to European coloniztion
Penal colony- Place to send people convicted of crimes.
Regionalism- Loyalty to a local area.
Zaibatsu- Powerful banking and industrial families in Japan.
Utilitarians- (Utilltarianism): idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
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