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Ch. 23 Vocabulary Flashcards

From the AP Edition of World Civilizations: The Global ExperienceFifth Edition) is Chapter 23 Vocabulary. It is for my AP World History class at East Career & Technical Academy.

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53915653Congress of Viennaconservative, reactionary meeting, led by prince metternich, restore europe to prerevolution time0
53915654Liberalisman economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard1
53915655RadicalsThose who favor extreme change2
53915656Socialisma political theory advocating state ownership of industry3
53915657Nationalismlove of country and willingness to sacrifice for it4
53915658Greek RevolutionThe Greeks revolted against the Ottomans for their independence, to which the Concert generally opposed to this5
53915659Protoindustrializationpreliminary shift away from an agricultural economy; workers became full- or part-time producers who worked at home in a capitalist system in which materials, work, orders, and sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to the Industrial revolution6
53915660French Revolution of 1830July Revolution: Barricades in Paris=> provisional government;7
53915661Belgian Revolution of 1830Produced Belgian independence from the Dutch; established a constitutional monarchy.8
53915662Reform Bill of 1832gave representation in parliament to growing towns, eliminated "rotten boroughs", suffrage to men who owned property9
53915663James WattScottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry1736-1819)10
53915664Factory Systema method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building11
53915665LudditesThese were the angry old cottage industry workers who lost their jobs and costumers to machines and as a result, they began to secretly destroy the machines12
53915666Chartist Movement`, In 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all MEN.13
53915667French Revolution of 1848Overthrew the French monarchy established in 1830; Briefly established the second French republic.14
53915668Revolutions of 1848Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary the revolutions failed.p. 595)15
53915669Louis PasteurFrench chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization1822-1895)16
53915670Benjamin Disraelithe british conservative prime minister who extended the vote to working class males in 1867, British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India1804-1881)17
53915671Count Camillo di CavourPrime minister of Sardinianorthern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.18
53915672Otto van BismarckPrime minister of Sardinianorthern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.19
53915673American Civil Warcivil war in the United States between the North and the South20
53915674Transformationthe act of changing in form or shape or appearance, the act of changing in form or shape or appearance21
53915675Social QuestionIssues relating to workers and women in western Europe during the Industrial Revolution22
53915676Karl Marxfounder of modern communism23
53915677Revisionisma moderate evolutionary form of Marxism24
53915678Feminist MovementsSought various legal and economic gains for women, including equal access to professions and higher education; came to concentrate on the right to vote; won support particularly from middle-class women; active in western Europe at the end of the 19th century; revived in light of other issues in the 1960's25
53915679Mass Leisure CultureAn aspect of the later Industrial Revolution; based on newspapers, music halls, popular theater, vacation trips, and team sports.26
53915680Charles DarwinEnglish natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection1809-1882)27
53915681Albert Einsteinphysicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity28
53915682Sigmund Freudphysicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity29
53915683Romanticisma movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization30
53915684Triple Alliancemovements to create independent states and reunite ethnic groups in the Balkans; provoked crises within the European alliance system that ended with the outbreak of World War I31
53915685Triple EntenteAn alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI.32
53915686Balkan Nationalismmovements to create independent states and reunite ethnic groups in the Balkans; provoked crises within the European alliance system that ended with the outbreak of World War I33

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