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9411423659caudillosMilitary strongmen who seized control of a government in nineteenth-century Latin America.0
9411423660dependent developmentTerm used to describe Latin America's economic growth in the nineteenth century, which was largely financed by foreign capital and dependent on European and North American prosperity and decisions.1
9411423661Indian cotton textilesFor much of the eighteenth century, well-made and inexpensive cotton textiles from India flooded western markets; the competition stimulated the British textile industry to industrialize, which led to the eventual destruction of the Indian textile market both in Europe and in India.2
9411423662Johnston, EllenScottish textile worker and single mother (1835-1875) who became a published poet with a modest local reputation.3
9411423663Labour PartyBritish working-class political party established in the 1890s and dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism, in time providing a viable alternative to the revolutionary emphasis of Marxism.4
9411423664Latin American export boomLarge-scale increase in Latin American exports (mostly raw materials and foodstuffs) to industrializing countries in the second half of the nineteenth century, made possible by major improvements in shipping; the boom mostly benefited the upper and middle classes.5
9411423665lower middle classSocial stratum that developed in Britain in the nineteenth century and that consisted of people employed in the service sector as clerks, salespeople, secretaries, police officers, and the like; by 1900, this group comprised about 20 percent of Britain's population6
9411423666LudditesSkilled artisans who banded together between 1811 and 1813 to protest against the machines that threatened the jobs and livelihood of workers in the woolen and cotton industry. Luddites also argued for price reductions, minimum wages, and prohibitions on the flooding of their industry by unapprenticed workers.7
9411423667Marx, KarlThe most influential proponent of socialism, Marx (1818-1883) was a German expatriate in England who advocated working-class revolution as the key to creating an ideal communist future.8
9411423668Mexican RevolutionLong and bloody war (1911-1920) in which Mexican reformers from the middle class joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Díaz and create a new, much more democratic political order.9
9411423669middle-class valuesBelief system typical of the middle class that developed in Britain in the nineteenth century; it emphasized thrift, hard work, rigid moral behavior, cleanliness, and "respectability."10
9411423670progressivesFollowers of an American political movement (progressivism) in the period around 1900 that advocated reform measures to correct the ills of industrialization.11
9411423671Russian Revolution of 1905Spontaneous rebellion that erupted in Russia after the country's defeat at the hands of Japan in 1905; the revolution was suppressed, but it forced the government to make substantial reforms.12
9411423672socialism in the United StatesFairly minor political movement in the United States; at its height in 1912, it gained 6 percent of the vote for its presidential candidate.13
9411423673steam engineMechanical device in which the steam from heated water builds up pressure to drive a piston, rather than relying on human or animal muscle power; the introduction of the steam engine allowed a hitherto unimagined increase in productivity and made the Industrial Revolution possible.14
9411423674Abolitionist movementA movement set forth roughly 1780 to 1890 in which slavery lost legitimacy and started to become abolished. This came about due to the Enlightenment thinking becoming critical of slavery as a violation of the natural rights of every person. This was extremely remarkable in Britain and the United States.15
9411423675Declaration of the Rights of Man and CitizenThis document rose up in the French National Assembly giving humans natural rights.16
9411423676Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton was a feminist speaker at the first feminism conference in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. She referenced to the Declaration of Independence in paraphrasing it into this statement : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal."17
9411423677French RevolutionThe French Revolution (1789-1815) took its first step as the French soldiers came home from America full of republican enthusiasm. Differing from the American Revolution the French Revolution had conflict within the imperial french society. Attempting to start from scratch and build the French infrastructure back up.18
9411423678Haitian RevolutionHearing about the French Revolution the slaves viewed it as a personal freedom. Led by Toussaint Louverture the former slaves overcame internal resistance, outmaneuvered the foreign powers, and even defeated Napoleon when trying to reestablish French control in Haiti, meaning mountainous or rugged.19
9411423679KartiniIndonesian national heroine from Java. She was also a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women's rights for Indonesians20
9411423680Maternal feminismAs more women began to find both education opportunities and some freedom from household drudgery they began to take part in temperance movement, charities, abolitionism, and missionary work, as well as socialist and pacifist organizations. But the women were seen as child bearers in society so they, Tried to achieve equal rights and equal opportunities.21
9411423681Napoleon Bonaparteacquiring power in 1799 set out to influence others primarily through conquest. He is also credited with taming the revolution in the face of growing disenchantment with its more radical features and with the social conflicts it generated.22
9411423682NationalismAn idea circumferencing a nation in which it is exclusive and unique from others. Having a unique culture, territory, ethnicity etc.23
9411423683North American Revolutionlaunched with the Declaration of Independence stating that North America was going to depart from Britain's rule. This aggravation arising in the thirteen Colonies resulted from the taxations the British put on them: such as the stamp act, sugar act, and tea act. Winning the war North America established a republic, allowing the people to vote.24
9411423684Spanish American RevolutionNapoleon invaded Spain and Portugal, with this disarray of royal authorities the Latin Americans Took action, slowly revolutionizing. As the whites were outnumbered the Native Americans, people of African ancestry, and those of mixed race took control. But the settlers in the Spanish colonies had little tradition of local self-government such as what developed in North America. Thus Latin America started to become impoverished, undemocratic, and politically unstable.25
9411423685Vindication of the Rights of WomenAn early publication from the English woman Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft created an image in which the class roles of the three estates were represented by women26
9411423686decembristRadicalized military officers and Russian soldiers who staged an uprising in St. Petersburg, refusing to swear allegiance to the new tsar, Nicholas I. The Decembrist revolt took place in December and lasted for less than a day, but it marked the first open breach between a section of the educated Russian nobility and the tsarist regime.27
9411423687Catholic Counter-ReformationAn internal reform of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century; thanks especially to the work of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic leaders clarified doctrine, corrected abuses and corruption, and put a new emphasis on education and accountability28
9411423688Condorcet and the ideas of progressThe Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was a French philosopher and political scientist who argued that human affairs were moving into an era of near-infinite improbability, with slavery, racism, tyranny, and other human trials swept abay by the triumph of reason29
9411423689CopericusPolish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543) who was the first to argue for the existence of a heliocentric cosmos30
9411423690European EnlightenmentEuropean intellectual movement of the eighteenth century that applied the lessons of the Scientific Revolution to human affairs and was noted for its commitment to open-mindedness and inquiry and the belief that knowledge could transform human society31
9411423691Jesuits in ChinaSeries of Jesuit missionaries in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who, inspired by the work of Matteo Ricci, made extraordinary efforts to understand and become a part of Chinese culture in their efforts to convert Chinese elite, although with limited success32
9411423692KaozhengLiterally, "research based on evidence," Chinese intellectual movement whose practitioners emphasized the importance of evidence and analysis, applied especially to historical documents33
9411423693MirabaiOne of India's most beloved bhakti poets (1498-1547), she helped break down the barriers of caste and tradition34
9411423694Issac NewtonEnglish natural scientist (1643-1727) whose foundation of the laws of motion and mechanics is regarded as the culmination of the Scientific Revolution35
9411423695Protestant ReformationMassive schism within Christianity that had its formal beginning in 1517 with the German priest Martin Luther; while the leaders of the movement claimed that they sought to "reform" a Church that had fallen from biblical practice, in reality the movement was radically innovated in its challenges to Church authority and its endorsement of salvation "by faith alone"36
9411423696SikhismReligious tradition of northern India founded by Guru Nanak ca.1500; combines elements of Hinduism and Islam and proclaims the brotherhood of all humans and the equality of men and women37
9411423697Taki OnqoyLiterally, "dancing sickness;" a religious revivial movement in central Peru in the 1560s whose members preached the imminent destruction of Christianity and of the Europeans in favor of a renewed Andean golden age38
9411423698Ursula de JesusSlave and later religious Laywoman at the Peruvian Convent of Santa Claus (1606-1666), a lucky escape inspired her to pursue a pious life of mortification and good works gaining a reputation as a women of extraordinary devotion and humility as well as a visionary and mystic39
9411423699VoltairePen name of the French Philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), whose work is often taken as a model of enlightenment questioning on traditional values and attitudes; noted for his dream and his criticism of traditional religion40
9411423700Wahhabi IslamMajor Islamic movement led by Muslim theologian Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) that advocated as austere lifestyle and strict adherence to Islamic law41
9411423701Galileo GalileiItalian astronomer (1564-1642) who further developed the ideas of Copernicus and whose work was eventually suppressed by the Catholic Church42

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