13541374271 | Industrial Revolution | Began in Britan c. 1750 and led to a need for raw materials and markets | 0 | |
13541374272 | Emancipation of Serfs and Slaves | 19th century development which allowed labor to be more mobile | 1 | |
13541374273 | Proletariat | The working class in factories as described by Marx | 2 | |
13541374274 | Bourgeoisie | The factory owners those who controlled the means of production according to Marx | 3 | |
13541374275 | French Revolution | A revolution which resulted in the excecution of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | 4 | |
13541374276 | Guillotine | A new method of execution which represented equality under the law | 5 | |
13541374277 | Louis XVI | Tried and executed by French revolutionaries in the late 18th century | 6 | |
13541374278 | Napoleon | Created an Empire in Europe during the early 19th century but was finally defeated in 1815 | 7 | |
13541374279 | American Revolution | Inspired by the Enlightenment, this is war for independence led to a republic | 8 | |
13541374280 | Hatian Revolution | This was the first successful Latin American Revolution | 9 | |
13541374281 | Nationalism | A sense of common identity based on culture, language, values, and geographic boundaries | 10 | |
13541374282 | Democracy | A government system in which people have a say in who rules and how they rule | 11 | |
13541374283 | Congress of Vienna | 1815 conference which attempted to restore monarchial power in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon | 12 | |
13541374284 | Simon Bolivar | Leader of the war for independence in northern South America | 13 | |
13541374285 | Benito Juarez | Leader who attempted to reform Mexico in the mid 19th century | 14 | |
13541374286 | Dependency Theory | Core states provide manufatured goods while periphery states provide raw materials | 15 | |
13541374287 | Conference of Berlin | A late 19th c. meeting between European leaders who agreed to divide Africa so as to avoid war | 16 | |
13541374288 | Coal | This fossil fuel is burned to turn water into steam for steam locomotives | 17 | |
13541374289 | Indentured Servitude | A contract labor system in which workers signed up to work for an extended period of time, e.g. 7 years | 18 | |
13541374290 | Adam Smith and John Stewart Mill | Economic reformers who supported ideas which encouraged less government control of the economy | 19 | |
13541374291 | Panama Canal | Completed in 1914, linked the Pacific and Atlantic Oceaan | 20 | |
13541374292 | Suez Canalal | Completed in 1869 in Egypt, linked the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea | 21 | |
13541374293 | American Transcontinental Railroad | Completed in 1869, linked the east and west coasts of the United States | 22 | |
13541374294 | Cotton | The raw material necessary in the British textile industry, from India, Egypt and Southern USA | 23 | |
13541374295 | Opium Wars | Fought between the British and the Chinese 1838-1842, resulted in the opening of 5 Chinese ports | 24 | |
13541374296 | Creoles | The class of people in Latin America who were of European descent but born in the Americas | 25 | |
13541374297 | Mestizos | The class of mixed race, e.g. Spanish and Indian, in Latin America | 26 | |
13541374298 | Boxer Rebellion | an anti-foreign uprising in China which led to the intervention of foreign powers 1900 | 27 | |
13541374299 | Marxism | An economic theory which predicted the end of capitalism and rise of the prletariant-led socialist system | 28 | |
13541374300 | Social Darwinism | Herbert Spencer's false use of Darwin's theory to explain Western dominance based on race | 29 | |
13541374301 | Muhammad Ali | The ruler of Egypt who attempted to modernize this part of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th c. | 30 | |
13541374302 | Meiji Restoration | The end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the beginning of Japanese modernization | 31 | |
13541374303 | Quing Dynasty | The Opium Wars and Boxer Rebellion helped bring down this dynasty in 1911 | 32 | |
13541374304 | Russo-Japanese War | The first victory for a non European nation over a European nation since the industrial revolution | 33 | |
13541374305 | Taiping Rebellion | Civil War in China 1850-1864, Qing vs. "Christian" rebels, est. 20-30 million died | 34 | |
13541374306 | Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer that argued that women are not inferior to men, "Vindication of the Rights of Women" 1792 | 35 | |
13541374307 | Raw Materials and Markets | Industrialized nations looked for opportunities gain control over distant lands for these | 36 | |
13541374308 | The (1)"means and the (2) motives" for imperialism | 1. Weapons, Trains, steamships 2. The need for raw material and markets | 37 | |
13541374309 | Trans Siberian Railroad | Completed in 1916, linked western Russia to the Pacific at Vladivostok | 38 | |
13541374310 | Sepoy Mutiny | 1857 revolt in India by Indian/British soldiers which led to direct rule of India by the British Raj | 39 |
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