I wanted to make a set to chip in for midterms! Enjoy and good luck!
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| 126044657 | Industrial Revolution | intro of the factory system, began in England, changes in western economy, rapid population growth, increased agricultural production, commercial revolution, new means of transportation, machines applied to production | 0 | |
| 126044663 | James Watt | invented steam engine | 1 | |
| 126044665 | protoindustrialization | shift from agriculture to domestic system | 2 | |
| 126044668 | corporation | business organization with large # of investors | 3 | |
| 126044670 | stock | certificate of partial ownership | 4 | |
| 126044672 | Enlightenment | Age of Reason, time when man was based on natural law, Old Regime challenged, major ideas supported by philosophs (freedom of speech, press, religion; education; anti-slavery) | 5 | |
| 126044673 | Adam Smith | philosoph, "laissez-faire"/capitalism = economic system with private owners and little government interference | 6 | |
| 126044674 | Navigation Acts | colonies could only trade with England, mercantalism | 7 | |
| 126044675 | Stamp Act | tax on paper goods | 8 | |
| 126044676 | American Revolution | rebellion of English colonies in N. America, resulted in independence (treaty of Paris 1783) & land E. of Mississippi, gov't based on Enlightenment (3 branches), other revolutions inspired/influences by it | 9 | |
| 126044677 | French Revolution | revolution in France [duh :) ], overthrew monarchy and old regimes, French Empire est. by Napoleon, source of liberal movements and constitutions | 10 | |
| 126044678 | Louis XVI | weak and inefficient French king at beginning of French Revolution, executed | 11 | |
| 126044679 | Estates General | gov't in place before Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the formation of the National Assembly | 12 | |
| 126044680 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | formed on tennis court; promised resistence to oppression, liberty, liberty, and property; women, Jews, and non-landowners discriminated against | 13 | |
| 126044681 | Reign of Terror | radical stage of French Rev. led by Robespierre, siezed gov't and made reforms (metric, calender, conscription), attack on Bastille, National Assembly formed, D of R of M & C written, peasants siezed manorial records | 14 | |
| 126044682 | Meritocracy | advancing on merit, not on birth | 15 | |
| 126044683 | Continental System | Napoleon's attempt to defeat British by cutting off trade => FAILED | 16 | |
| 126044684 | Napoleonic Code | law code that promised equality under the law, civil marriage, and divorce | 17 | |
| 126044685 | Conservative Restoration | time period in France when the Old Regime was brought back | 18 | |
| 126044686 | Congress of Vienna | monarchs restored, France surrounded by strong countries, compensated victors | 19 | |
| 126044687 | Chartist Movement | tried to get all men the right to vote | 20 | |
| 126044688 | Marxism | Communism, formed by Carl Marx, believed that workers would overthrow capitalists and form a class-less society => FAILED b/c of gov't intervention, rising standard of living, human achievement | 21 | |
| 126044689 | Social Darwinism | formed by Darwin, belief the only the strongest survive (survival of the fittest) | 22 | |
| 126044690 | Principles of Population | formed by Malthus, belief that there will always be poverty b/c food production can't keep up with the rising population | 23 | |
| 126044691 | William Wilburforce | led anti-slavery movement in British Parliament | 24 | |
| 126044692 | Liberalism | open to and liking change, NO violence | 25 | |
| 126044693 | Aboriginies | Austrailian peoples, couldn't resist British, granted self-gov't | 26 | |
| 126044694 | Maoris | taken over by British who feared French control, after Maori defeat good relations were est., allowed self-rule | 27 | |
| 126386124 | Stevenson | invented locamotive | 28 | |
| 126386125 | domestic system | the practice of making goods in the home, slow and inefficient | 29 |
