4265367408 | liberals | people who generally favor government action and view change as progress | 0 | |
4265367409 | radicals | those who favor extreme change | 1 | |
4265367410 | federalist system | powers shared by the government and its subunits | 2 | |
4265367411 | gens de couleur | free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution. | 3 | |
4265367412 | Father Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla | priest who led the first major Mexican revolt against Spanish rule in 1810 | 4 | |
4265367413 | Augustine Iterbide | changes sides after he defeats Jose Morelos. He fight for the power for the Creoles and in 1821 Mexico is free from Spain. | 5 | |
4265367414 | junta | a military group ruling a country after seizing power | 6 | |
4265367415 | Louis XVI | king of France-executed for treason by the National Convention-absolute monarch-husband of Marie Antoinette. | 7 | |
4265367416 | Napoleonic Code | French civil code established in the early 1800s; basis of many civil codes today and still remains France's civil code | 8 | |
4265367417 | National Assembly | a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people | 9 | |
4265367418 | Jose de San Martin | South American general and statesman, born in Argentina: leader in winning independence for Argentina, Peru, and Chile; protector of Peru | 10 | |
4265367419 | Alexis de Tocqueville | French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859) | 11 | |
4265367420 | Francois Dominque Toussaint L'Ouverture | leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French. | 12 | |
4265367421 | George Washington | commander of the Continental Army | 13 | |
4265367422 | Battle of Waterloo | this was the battle that Napoleon lost after his return from Elba that ended his reign as French ruler | 14 | |
4265367423 | Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women | 15 | |
4265367424 | break-of-bulk | a location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another. | 16 | |
4265367425 | cult of domesticity | idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands | 17 | |
4265367426 | demographic transition | change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates | 18 | |
4265367427 | electric telegraph | a device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. | 19 | |
4265367428 | Samuel Gompers | led the AFL (American Federation of Labor), a skilled craft union, fought for wages and working conditions, they went on strike, boycotted and used collective bargaining | 20 | |
4265367429 | interchangeable parts | identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring | 21 | |
4265367430 | mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) | 22 | |
4265367431 | proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | 23 | |
4265367432 | utopian socialism | ideal society based on socialist ideals-Louis Blanc and Charles Fourier | 24 | |
4265367433 | James Watt | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) | 25 | |
4265367434 | Josiah Wedgewood | (1759) opened pottery business that mass-produced high quality porcelain at a low cost | 26 | |
4265367435 | Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) | 27 | |
4265367436 | the Bully of the North | the US was called this by the Latin Americans | 28 | |
4265367437 | caudillos | military rulers who emerged in new republics across latin america | 29 | |
4265367438 | Porfirio Diaz | a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants | 30 | |
4265367439 | Dominion of Canada | the loose confederation of Ontario(upper Canada), Quebec(lower Canada), Nove Scotia, and New Brunswich, created by teh british North America Act in 1867 | 31 | |
4265367440 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939) | 32 | |
4265367441 | isolationism | a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | 33 | |
4265367442 | isolationist policy | a policy of abstaining from an active role in international affairs or alliances, which characterized US foreign policy toward Europe during most of the 1800's | 34 | |
4265367443 | Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency | 35 | |
4265367444 | Benito Juarez | Mexican national hero; brought liberal reforms to Mexico, including separation of church and state, land distribution to the poor, and an educational system for all of Mexico | 36 | |
4265367445 | La Reforma | a liberal reform movement in 19th-century Mexico, led by Benito Juarez | 37 | |
4265367446 | Jose Antonio Paez | Venezulean soldier who led Simon Bolivar's cavalry force. | 38 | |
4265367447 | presidential system | a system of government in which the legislative and executive branches operate independently of each other | 39 | |
4265367448 | personalist rulers | rulers that became so due to their charismatic influence and personality | 40 | |
4265367449 | regionalism | a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas | 41 | |
4265367450 | romanticisim | reaction against the Enlightenment, nature, simplicity and the ideal | 42 | |
4265367451 | Juan Manuel de Rosas | strongman leader in buenos aires; took power in 1831; commanded loyalty of gauchos; restored local autonomy. | 43 | |
4265367452 | Washington's Farewell Address | warned Americans not to get involved in European affairs, not to make permanent alliances, not to form political parties and to avoid sectionalism. | 44 | |
4265367453 | anarchists | people who oppose organized government | 45 | |
4265367454 | Bolsheviks | a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 | 46 | |
4265367455 | Boxer Revellion | revolt by China secret society to drive foreigners out | 47 | |
4265367456 | Canton System | restricted all foreign trade to the port of Canton (trading season) | 48 | |
4265367457 | Catherine the Great | Empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796) | 49 |
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