9647002976 | pugachev's rebellion | principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after Catherine II seized power in 1762 | 0 | |
9647002977 | popular sovereignty | authority to govern derived from the people, not God or tradition | 1 | |
9647007873 | john locke | man who created/believed in the Social Contract Theory | 2 | |
9647013554 | social contract theory | a voluntary agreement between the government and the governed | 3 | |
9647013555 | enlightenment | a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly | 4 | |
9647021096 | north american revolution | revolution caused by the struggle for independence from Britain | 5 | |
9647024089 | french revolution | revolution caused by the fact that the third estate wanted equal voting rights | 6 | |
9647028228 | declaration of rights of man and citizen | new idea that came from the French Revolution that stated everyone has equal rights | 7 | |
9647028229 | reign of terror | (1793-1794) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed by the quillotine; marked a new stage in revolutionary violence | 8 | |
9647032269 | robespierre | leader of Reign of Terror | 9 | |
9647032270 | napoleon bonaparte | successful general who seized power in 1799; credited with taming radical revolution, emphasized social equality and suppressed liberty | 10 | |
9647036595 | haitian revolution | revolution in Haiti caused by a huge slave revolt | 11 | |
9647038319 | toussaint louverture | former slave and leader in revolution | 12 | |
9647059646 | spanish american revolution | revolution: upheaval of Spanish and Portuguese colonies in mainland Latin America | 13 | |
9647059647 | creoles | native born elites in the Spanish colonies, person of mixed race (european and black) | 14 | |
9647064102 | miguel hidalgo then jose morelos | two priests who led peasant insurrection | 15 | |
9647064103 | simon bolivar | leader of Spanish American revolution | 16 | |
9647066812 | nativism | all people born in Americas = Americanos regardless of race | 17 | |
9648767726 | russian decembrist revolt | radicalized Russian military officers persuaded 3000 soldiers to refuse to swear oath of allegiance to new Tsar, Nicholas I | 18 | |
9648767727 | abolition of slavery | slaves were freed and no longer used for trade or to produce crops; last country to abolish slavery was brazil which ended the Atlantic slave trade | 19 | |
9648770432 | sharecropping | African American families would rent small plots of land (shares) to work themselves; in return, they would give a portion of their crops to the landowner at the end of the year | 20 | |
9648770433 | nation | distinct culture and territory which has political independence | 21 | |
9648770434 | nationalism | offsets economic and social antagonism | 22 | |
9648772215 | feminism | organized and substantial group of women challenging the patriarchy | 23 | |
9648774572 | mary wolstonecroft | leader of feminism in 19th century, wrote "Vindication of the Rights of Women" | 24 | |
9648774573 | seneca falls convention | first organized expression of feminism | 25 | |
9648777823 | elizabeth cady stanton | drafted statement paraphrasing Declaration of Independence | 26 | |
9648777824 | suffrage | the right to vote | 27 | |
9648780422 | industrial revolution | the most significant modern transformation in humankind | 28 | |
9648782461 | environmental impacts | massive extraction of nonrenewable resources altered landscape, sewers and industrial waste emptied into rivers | 29 | |
9648784901 | first industrial revolution | britain forges ahead of the rest of the world, great breakthrough of the coal fired steam engine | 30 | |
9648784902 | second industrial revolution | the focus is on different industries, IR spreads beyond Britain | 31 | |
9648787514 | city life | overcrowded, smoky, insufficient sanitation, epidemics, rowhouses, warehouses | 32 | |
9648790706 | work environment | long hours, low wages, child labor | 33 | |
9648790707 | trade unions | an advocate for workers' rights, better wages and working conditions | 34 | |
9648790708 | labor strikes | when a group of employees refuse to work in order to force employers to pay higher wages | 35 | |
9648793133 | karl marx | founder of modern communism; viewed socialism as a science | 36 | |
9648793134 | socialism | a political, social, and economic system meant to empower the working class. | 37 | |
9648793135 | communism | described as an economic theory favoring a classless society and abolition of private property. It was based on the writing of Karl Marx and inspired revolutions of the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, and many more. | 38 | |
9648795389 | labour party | british working political party that was made for reforms and to turn into socialism; it led to massive struggles and problems, which in account people turned to Marxism. | 39 | |
9648795390 | capitalism | an economic system based on private property and free enterprise. | 40 | |
9648795391 | self-made industrialists | Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller | 41 | |
9648801422 | great railroad strike of 1877 | many railroad workers went on strike to respond to the wage cuts. it was eventually put down by troops. | 42 | |
9648804012 | caudillos | military strongmen, achieved power as defenders or order and property | 43 | |
9648806567 | mexican revolution | armed rebellion in which the Mexican people fought for political and social reform | 44 | |
9648808978 | industrial capitalism | the development of capitalist business organizations in industrial societies. | 45 | |
9648808979 | european imperialism | Europe established colonies in Asia, the Middle East, and mainly Africa. | 46 | |
9648810974 | germ theory | The idea that diseases are spread by lower class people | 47 | |
9648810975 | civilizing missions | European imperialism/colonialism imposing their ideals to foreign regions/ territories. | 48 | |
9648814658 | social darwinism | belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle; "survival of the fittest" | 49 | |
9648816768 | scramble for africa | european powers partition continent in 25 years | 50 | |
9648816769 | scientific racism | the use of scientific theories to support or validate racist attitudes or worldviews | 51 | |
9648822093 | indian rebellion 1857 | military use of animal fat from cows and pigs; triggered by mutiny among Indian groupsin Beghal | 52 | |
9648845903 | apartheid | racial separation of homelands, system of segregation and discrimination | 53 | |
9648845904 | congo free state | a large state in central Africa ruled by King Leopold II and was entirely separated from Belgium. King Leopold II took its natural resources and became rich from it. | 54 | |
9648850257 | king leopold II | king of belgium; "congo free state"...he turned the congo into his own personal estate | 55 | |
9648854500 | "african identity" | few people thought of themselves as Africans | 56 | |
9648856205 | tribes in colonized africa | a european notion to facilitate colonial administration | 57 | |
9648858685 | taiping uprising | peasant upheaval where the leaders largely rejected Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism; leaders favored a unique form of Christianity | 58 | |
9648861160 | opium wars | two wars within the 19th century that was fought over British trade in China and the Chinese sovereignty; Britain sold opium to China and they got hooked. Britain wanted to keep exporting it to China because their economy was rising from it, but China stopped it, took out some exports and prohibited it, the British took it offensively, and started wars against them. | 59 | |
9648861161 | "self strengthening" | reinvigorate traditional China while borrowing some from the West | 60 | |
9648864078 | boxer uprising | anti-foreign movement in northern China; led by militia organizations known as "Boxers" | 61 | |
9648864079 | hundred days of reform | progressive imperial edicts | 62 | |
9648866799 | "sick man of europe" | name given to the Ottoman Empire by the Europeans as it is now an inferior empire; the Ottoman Empire's decline | 63 | |
9648868766 | defensive modernization | defined as when a country is able to build their own economic and educational structure. An example of defensive modernization would be whenever Japan had built their own military and educational system. | 64 | |
9648868767 | tanzimat | (reorganization) build strong and new centralized state; took shape as the Ottoman leadership sought to provide the economic, social, and legal underpinnings for a strong and newly decentralized state | 65 | |
9648868786 | young turks | military and civilian elites who opposed despotism; wanted thorough modernization like Europe | 66 | |
9648872327 | meiji restoration | political takeover of young samurai from southern Japan; event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji | 67 | |
9648872328 | commodore perry | leader who came to Japan and forced them to open up to Western trade and influence | 68 | |
9648878602 | shinto | ancient religion featuring ancestor veneration and natural spirits; official state cult of Japan | 69 |
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