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| 61080486 | Louis XVI | King of France (1774-1792). In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. He and Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793. | 0 | |
| 61080487 | Robespierre | French revolutionary Ex. leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794) | 1 | |
| 61080488 | gens de couleur | "people of color",, Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution | 2 | |
| 61080489 | Boukman | voodoo chief who began Haitian Revolution | 3 | |
| 61080490 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | important leader of the Haïtian Revolution; first leader of a free Haiti. In a long struggle again the institution of slavery, he led the blacks to victory over the whites and free coloreds and secured native control over the colony in 1797, calling himself a dictator. Napoleon jailed him | 4 | |
| 61080491 | Miguel de Hidalgo | priest of Catholic church that fought for Native American rights | 5 | |
| 61080492 | Augusin de Iturbide | Led upperclass revolutions in Mexico; became leader | 6 | |
| 61080493 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (1783-1830) | 7 | |
| 61080494 | Dom Pedro I | son of Portuguese King who was left in power in Brazil; declared Brazil independent | 8 | |
| 61080495 | caudillos | Military dictators that gained control after independence movements | 9 | |
| 61080496 | Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers | 10 | |
| 61080497 | conservative | have traditional beliefs | 11 | |
| 61080498 | liberal | a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | 12 | |
| 61080499 | radical | broader voting rights, reforms | 13 | |
| 61080500 | Marxism | the idea of communism written by a German guy | 14 | |
| 61080501 | nationalism | the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | 15 | |
| 61080502 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion | 16 | |
| 61080503 | Count Camillos di Cavour | united Italy; attacked Austria with France | 17 | |
| 61080504 | Otto von Bismarck | united Germany through a series of wars | 18 | |
| 61080505 | feminist movement | was largely unsuccessful during this time period; laid a foundation for future movements | 19 | |
| 61080506 | White Dominion | colonies inhabited mostly by whites and European descendents (ex. Australia!) | 20 | |
| 61080507 | contested settler colony | equal amounts of Europeans and natives | 21 | |
| 61080508 | tropical dependency | more natives that are ruled by a few Europeans | 22 | |
| 61080509 | sepoys | native Indian soldiers allied to a European power | 23 | |
| 61080510 | Ram Mohan Roy | efforts to protect Hinduism and Indian rights in participating in British government; tried to abolish sati | 24 | |
| 61080511 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. | 25 | |
| 61080512 | Berlin Conference | a meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa | 26 | |
| 61080513 | Boer War | Lasting from 1899 to 1902, Dutch colonists and the British competed for control of territory in South Africa. British won. | 27 | |
| 61080514 | Shaka Zulu | fought the Dutch in the Zulu war, Around 1816 used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state. The Zulu land became part of British-controlled land in 1887. | 28 | |
| 61080515 | the Great Game | refers to a strategic rivalry between British and Russian over control of Central Asia | 29 | |
| 61080516 | Mexican-American War | War declared in 1846 after Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande into Texas. Was ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which gave the U.S. Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million to Mexico | 30 | |
| 61080517 | Spainish-American War | Fought between Spain and the U.S, permitted American intervention in the Caribbean; U.S. gained Puerto Rico, Phillipenes, Guam | 31 | |
| 61080518 | Panama Canal | canal created in Central America that let U.S. have a shorter trade route from East to West | 32 | |
| 61080519 | Santa Anna | caudillo leader of Mexico | 33 | |
| 61080520 | Benito Juarez | Mexican national hero; brought liberal reforms to Mexico, including separation of church and state, land distribution to the poor, and an educational system for all of Mexico | 34 | |
| 61080521 | Porfirio Diaz | a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants | 35 | |
| 61080522 | Juan Manuel de Rosas | Argintina caudillo | 36 | |
| 61080523 | Opium War | War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories. The victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China | 37 | |
| 61080524 | Taiping Rebellion | a mid-19th century rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in China, led by Hong Xiuquan ("brother of Jesus") | 38 | |
| 61080525 | Self-Strengthening Movement | Chinese modernize the army, improve infrastructure, relied on foriegn investment | 39 | |
| 61080526 | Boxer Rebellion | Chinese kill foriegners; Europe and U.S. step in | 40 | |
| 61080527 | Dowager Cixi | Against the reform of China | 41 | |
| 61080528 | spheres of influence | how different European countiries influenced different parts of China | 42 | |
| 61080529 | Sun Yatsen | 1st President of the Republic of China | 43 | |
| 61080530 | Tanzimat Reforms | Ottoman reforms that modernized the military and burecaracy, established good education, Western technology, and new constitution | 44 | |
| 61080531 | Muhammad Ali | attempted to reforganize Egyptian society, streamline the economy, train a professional bureuacracy | 45 | |
| 61080532 | Mahdi | the propesized redeemer of Islam that will return along with Jesus to "fix the world" (not all Muslims believe this) | 46 | |
| 61080533 | Suez Canal | canal built to link Mediterranean and Red Seas | 47 | |
| 61080534 | zaibatsu | Huge industrial combines created in Japan in the 1890s as part of the process of industrialization (formerly samurai) | 48 |
