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13990170041abolitionist movementAn international movement (1780 and 1890) that succeeded in condemning slavery and abolishing it in much of the world; the movement was especially prominent in Britain and the United States.0
13990170042CreolesNative-born elites in the Spanish colonies.1
13990170043Declaration of the Rights of Man and CitizenDocument drawn up by the French National Assembly in 1789 that proclaimed the equal rights of all men; the declaration ideologically launched the French Revolution.2
13990170044Declaration of the Rights of WomanShort work written by the French feminist Olympe de Gouges in 1791 that was modeled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and that made the argument that the equality proclaimed by the French revolutionaries must also include women.3
13990170045Estates-GeneralFrench representative assembly called into session by Louis XVI to address pressing problems and out of which the French Revolution emerged; the three estates were the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.4
13990170046FreetownWest African settlement in what is now Sierra Leone at which British naval commanders freed Africans they rescued from illegal slave ships.5
13990170047French RevolutionMassive dislocation of French society (1789-1815) that overthrew the monarchy, destroyed most of the French aristocracy, and launched radical reforms of society that were lost again, though only in part, under Napoleon's imperial rule and after the restoration of the monarchy.6
13990170048gens de couleur libresLiterally, "free people of color"; term used to describe freed slaves and people of mixed racial background in Saint Domingue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution.7
13990170049HaitiName that revolutionaries gave to the former French colony of Saint Domingue; the term means "mountainous" or "rugged" in the Taino language.8
13990170050Haitian RevolutionThe only fully successful slave rebellion in world history; the uprising in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue (later renamed Haiti) was sparked by the French Revolution Toussaint L'Ouverture and led to the establishment of an independent state after a long and bloody war (1791-1804).9
13990170051Hidalgo-Morelos RevolutionSocially radical peasant insurrection that began in Mexico in 1810 and that was led by the priests10
13990170052Latin American RevolutionsSeries of risings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1826) that established the independence of new states from Spanish rule but that for the most part retained the privileges of the elites despite efforts at more radical social rebellion by the lower classes.11
13990170053Toussaint L'OuvertureFirst leader of the Haitian Revolution, a former slave (1743-1803) who wrote the first constitution of Haiti and served as the first governor of the newly independent state.12
13990170054Napoleon BonaparteFrench head of state from 1799 until his abdication in 1814 (and again briefly in 1815); preserved much of the French Revolution under an autocratic system and was responsible for the spread of revolutionary ideals through his conquest of much of Europe.13
13990170055NationA group of people who have a sense of common identity and destiny, thanks to ties of blood, culture, language, or common experience.14
13990170056NationalismThe focusing of citizens' loyalty on the notion that they are part of a "nation" with a unique culture, territory, and destiny; first became a prominent element of political culture in the nineteenth century.15
13990170057American RevolutionSuccessful rebellion conducted by the colonists of parts of North America (not Canada) against British rule (1775-1787); a conservative revolution whose success assured property rights but established republican government in place of monarchy.16
13990170058Petit BlancsThe "little" (or poor) white population of Saint Domingue, which played a significant role in the Haitian Revolution.17
13990170059Seneca Falls ConferenceThe first organized women's rights conference18
13990170060Elizabeth Cady StantonLeading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States (1815-1902).19
13990170061the Reign of TerrorTerm used to describe the revolutionary violence in France in 1793-1794, when radicals under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre executed tens of thousands of people deemed enemies of the revolution.20
13990170062Third EstateIn prerevolutionary France, the term used for the 98 percent of the population that was neither clerical nor noble, and for their representatives at the Estates General; in 1789, it declared itself a National Assembly and launched the French Revolution.21
13990170063Tupac AmaruThe last Inca emperor; in the 1780s, a Native American rebellion against Spanish control of Peru took place in his name.22
13990170064BourgeoisieTerm that Karl Marx used to describe the owners of industrial capital; originally meant "townspeople."23
13990170065British Royal SocietyAssociation of scientists established in England in 1660 that was dedicated to the promotion of "useful knowledge."24
13990170066Crimean WarMajor international conflict (1854-1856) in which British and French forces defeated Russia; the defeat prompted reforms within Russia.25
13990170067Sigmund FreudAustrian doctor and the father of modern psychoanalysis (1856-1939); his theories about the operation of the human mind and emotions remain influential today26
13990170068Labour 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.27
13990170069Karl MarxGerman expatriate in England who advocated working-class revolution as the key to creating an ideal communist future.28
13990170070Middle class valuesBelief system that developed in Britain in the nineteenth century; it emphasized thrift, hard work, rigid moral behavior, cleanliness, and "respectability."29
13990170071Robert OwensSocialist thinker and wealthy mill owner (1771-1858) who created an ideal industrial community at New Lanark, Scotland.30
13990170072Peter the GreatTsar of Russia (r. 1689-1725) who attempted a massive reform of Russian society in an effort to catch up with the states of Western Europe.31
13990170073PopulismLate-nineteenth-century American political movement that denounced corporate interests of all kinds.32
13990170074ProletariatTerm that Karl Marx used to describe the industrial working class; originally used in ancient Rome to describe the poorest part of the urban population.33
13990170075Steam 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 this item allowed an increase in productivity and made the Industrial Revolution possible.34
13990170076Boxer RebellionRising of Chinese militia organizations in 1900 in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed35
13990170077DaimyoFeudal lords of Japan who retained substantial autonomy under the Tokugawa shogunate and only lost their social preeminence in the Meiji restoration.36
13990170078Meiji RestorationThe overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan in 1868, restoring power at long last to the emperor37
13990170079Matthew PerryU.S. navy commodore who in 1853 presented the ultimatum that led Japan to open itself to more normal relations with the outside world.38
13990170080Opium WarsTwo wars fought between Western powers and China (1839-1842 and 1856-1858) after China tried to restrict the importation of foreign goods; China lost both wars and was forced to make major concessions.39
13990170081Russo-Japanese WarEnding in a Japanese victory, this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905.40
13990170082SamuraiArmed retainers of the Japanese feudal lords, famed for their martial skills and loyalty; in the Tokugawa shogunate, they gradually became an administrative elite, but they did not lose their special privileges until the Meiji restoration.41
13990170083Self-strengthening MovementChina's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West.42
13990170084The Sick Man of EuropeWestern Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it fails to recognize serious reform efforts in the Ottoman state during this period.43
13990170085Social DarwinismRACISM!!! An application of the concept of "survival of the fittest" to human history in the nineteenth century.44
13990170086Taiping UprisingMassive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of the country between 1850 and 1864; it was based on the millenarian teachings of Hong Xiuquan.45
13990170087Tanzimat ReformsImportant reform measures undertaken in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1839; the term means "reorganization."46
13990170088Tokugawa ShogunateRulers of Japan from 1600 to 1868.47
13990170089Unequal treatiesSeries of nineteenth-century treaties in which China made major concessions to Western powers.48
13990170090Young OttomansGroup of would-be reformers in the mid-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire that included lower-level officials, military officers, and writers; they urged the extension of Westernizing reforms to the political system.49
13990170091Young TurksMovement of Turkish military and civilian elites that developed ca. 1900, eventually bringing down the Ottoman Empire50
13990170092ApartheidAfrikaans term for the system that developed in South Africa of strictly limiting the social and political integration of whites and blacks.51
13990170093Cash crop agricultureAgricultural production, often on a large scale, of crops for sale in the market, rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves.52
13990170094Leopold IIhis rule as private owner of the Congo Free State during much of that time is typically held up as the worst abuse of Europe's second wave of colonization, resulting as it did in millions of deaths.53
13990170095Cultivation SystemSystem of forced labor used in the Netherlands East Indies in the nineteenth century; peasants were required to cultivate at least 20 percent of their land in cash crops such as sugar or coffee for sale at low and fixed prices to government contractors, who then earned enormous profits from further sale of the crops.54
13990170096Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858Massive uprising of much of India against British rule; also called the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny from the fact that the rebellion first broke out among Indian troops in British employ.55
13990170097Scramble for AfricaName used for the process of the European countries' partition of the continent of Africa between themselves in the period 1875-1900.56
13990170098Guillotinedefined the reign of terror, its fast-falling blade extinguished life immediately, introduced as a more humane way of beheading (vs. an ax)57
13990170099Mass ProductionThe manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small simple tasks.58
13990170100Steam Shipstechnological innovation allowed Europeans to reach distant Asian and African ports quickly and predictably59
13990170101mercantilismA set of economic principles based on policies which stress government regulation of economic activities to benefit the home country60
13990170102Capitalism(1776) , an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations.61
13990170103Simon BolivarThe most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America; born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.62
13990170109Janissarya soldier in the elite guard of the Ottoman Turks63
13990170110Muhammad AliAlbanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849).64
13990170111Tanzimat'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers, intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureaucracy more efficient.65
13990170112ExtraterritorialityForeign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country, disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.66
13990170113Canton SystemThe Canton System (1757-1842) served as a means for China to control trade with the west within its own country by focusing all trade on the southern port of Canton (now Guangzhou).67
13990170115Palm OilA West African tropical product often used to make soap; the British encouraged its cultivation as an alternative to the slave trade.68
13990170116Emmeline Pankhurst(1858-1928) British suffragette and founder of the Woman's Social and Political Union.69
13990170117Emily DavisonThrew herself under the Kings horse at the Derby to draw attention to the women's movement and was killed.70
13990170118Separate SpheresNineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women, especially of the middle class, should have different roles in society: women as wives, mothers, and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics71
13990170119Universal Male SuffrageThe extension of the right to vote to all males regardless of social standing or race, whose movement had begun in the early-mid 1800's72
13990170120Ems TelegramA telegram which the French gave to the Germans in anger over the Succession of the Throne in Spain, but the Germans altered it to look like the French were rude and evil. The French declared war.73
13990170121free trade imperialismEconomic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one, while maintaining the legal independence of a weaker state. In the late 19th cent, this characterized the relationships between Latin American republics and GB/US74
13990460268Enclosure MovementThe process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century.75
13990487741Textile productionfirst area to undergo major industrialization76
13990491466waterwheela large wheel driven by flowing water, used to work machinery or to raise water to a higher level.77
13990499719Cotton GinA machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 179378
13990519088petroleumliquid fossil fuel; oil; used more in this period than coal79

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