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| 333745240 | commodore matthew perry | the commodore of the u.s. navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the west | 0 | |
| 333745242 | railroads | Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. First railroads were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused a railroad building boom lasting into the 20th Century (704) | 1 | |
| 333745244 | submarine telegraph cables | Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. (pg 704) | 2 | |
| 333745246 | steel | an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon | 3 | |
| 333745248 | electricity | energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | 4 | |
| 333745249 | Thomas Edison | American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. | 5 | |
| 333745251 | Victorian Age | a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century | 6 | |
| 333745253 | seperate spheres | Nineteenth-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 politics (711) | 7 | |
| 333745255 | socialism | a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | 8 | |
| 333745257 | labor unions | Organizations of workers who, together, put pressure on the employers in an industry to improve working conditions and wages. | 9 | |
| 333745259 | Karl Marx | founder of modern communism | 10 | |
| 333745261 | anarchists | people who oppose organized government | 11 | |
| 333745263 | nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 12 | |
| 333745265 | liberalism | a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties. | 13 | |
| 333745267 | Guiseppe Garibaldi | part of Italian unification. In 1860 led an army of nationalists to conquer and unite southern Italy. He allowed the King of Sardinia to rule. His group was called the "Red Shirts" because they wore red | 14 | |
| 333745269 | Otto van Bismarck | Prime Minister of Prussia (largest state in Northern Germany); wanted a greater, unified Germany (smaller Southern states to join Prussia; preferred "iron and blood" to diplomacy | 15 | |
| 333745271 | Meiji Restoration | The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism. (See also Yamagata Aritomo.) (p. 694) | 16 | |
| 333745273 | Empress Dowager Cixi | Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest, supported antiforeign movements, and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces. (p. 721) | 17 | |
| 333745275 | Yamagata Aritomo | One of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration. | 18 |
