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150678092Bill of Rights (U.S.)The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These amendments limit the powers of the federal government, protecting the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors on United States territory.0
150678093BourgeoisieIn France, the class of merchants and artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of the French Revolution; in Marxist theory, a term referring to factory owners1
150678094Boxer RebellionRevolt against foreign residents of China2
150678095CapitalThe money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization3
150678096Code NapoleonCollection of laws that standardized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte4
150678097CommunismAn economic system in which the state controls means of production5
150678098Congress of ViennaPeace conference held after Napoleon's first exile (1814-1815). Presided over by Prince Klemens von Metternich it attempted to bring stability back to Europe by focusing on compensation, legitimacy, & balance of power6
150678099ConscriptionMilitary draft7
150678100ConservatismIn nineteenth-century Europe a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches8
150678101Domestic systemA manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes9
150678102Declaration of IndependenceDocument that set forth the American colonists' reasons for separation from Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson, the principal author, incorporated Enlightenment ideas such as "social contract" into the declaration10
150678103Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the CitizenA statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution11
150678104Enclosure movementThe fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution12
150678105EntrepreneurshipThe ability to combine the factors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production13
150678106ExtraterritorialityThe right of foreigners to live under the laws of their home country rather than those of the host country14
150678107Factors of productionResources used in the production of goods and services15
150678108GuanoBird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century16
150678109Industrial RevolutionThe transition between the domestic system of manufacturing and the mechanization of production in a factory setting17
150678110Monroe Doctrine (1823)Policy issued by the United States in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers18
150678111MaoriA member of a Polynesian group that settled New Zealand about 800 C.E.19
150678112Meiji RestorationThe restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program on industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate20
150678113Opium War (1839-1842)War between Great Britain and China began with the Qing dynasty's refusal to allow continued opium importation into China; British victory resulted in the Treaty of Nanking21
150678114PogromViolence against Jews in tsarist Russia22
150678115Quantum physicsBranch of science that deals with discrete, indivisible units of energy called quanta as described by the Quantum Theory.23
150678116RomanticismA literary and artistic movement in nineteenth-century Europe; emphasized emotion over reason24
150678117Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)War between Japan and Russia over Manchurian territory; resulted in the defeat of Russia by the Japanese navy25
150678118Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)Conflict between China and Japan for control of Korea in the late 19th cent.26
150678119Spheres of influenceDivisions of a country in which a particular foreign nation enjoys economic privileges27
150678120Suez CanalCanal constructed by Egypt across the Isthmus of Suez in 186928
150678121Theory of natural selectionEvolutionary process by which favorable traits that are heritable become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable traits that are heritable become less common29
150678122Theory of relativityProposed by the Jewish physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) in the early part of the 20th century, is one of the most significant scientific advances of all time. Although the concept of relativity was not introduced by Einstein, his major contribution was the recognition that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant and an absolute physical boundary for motion.30
150678123Tanzimat reformsNineteenth-century reforms by Ottoman rulers designed to make the government and military more efficient31
150678124Treaty of Nanking (1842)Treaty ending the Opium War that ceded Hong Kong to the British32
150678125Young TurksSociety founded in 1889 in the Ottoman Empire; its goal was to restore the constitution of 1876 and to reform the empire33
150678126ZaibatsuLarge industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late nineteenth century34

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