14010684319 | french and indian war | war fought between France and England in the 1750s over territorial claims in North America | 0 | |
14010684320 | seven years war | what is another word/phrase for the French and Indian war? | 1 | |
14010684321 | french | after the French and Indian war, which side (French or British) go north? | 2 | |
14010684322 | british | after the French and Indian War, which side (French or British) go westward into the Ohio River Valley | 3 | |
14010684323 | yes | after the french and indian war, did the British feel that the American colonist were not sharing the burden that the home country felt? | 4 | |
14010684324 | revenue act | an act/law that raised taxes on wealthy people and corporations; 1764 | 5 | |
14010684325 | stamp act | an act/law stating that colonists had to pay for stamps printed on taxable paper items; 1765 | 6 | |
14010684326 | tea act | an act/law where there was a tax on an item to help save the British East India Company; colonists boycotted; 1773 | 7 | |
14010684327 | thomas paine | the author of Common Sense that urged American colonist to support the movement against the British | 8 | |
14010684328 | Declaration of Independence | a 1776 document stating that the 13 English colonies were a free and independent nation | 9 | |
14010684329 | france | which nation provided supplies to the Americans and helped defeat the British during the American Revolution? | 10 | |
14010684330 | yes | after the many major war events, was France in debt? | 11 | |
14010684331 | estates-general | an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France | 12 | |
14010684332 | the first estate | a French estate that is made up of the clergy: high ranking, wealthy, parish priest (some poor people) | 13 | |
14010684333 | the second estate | a French estate that is made up of noble families | 14 | |
14010684334 | the third estate | a French estate that is made up of everyone else: peasant farmers, the small middle class, bourgeoisie, merchants | 15 | |
14010684335 | the third estate | which French estate made up 95% of the population and had very little political power? | 16 | |
14010684336 | declaration of the rights of man | a statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by France's National Assembly in 1789 stating "men are born and remain free and equal in rights" | 17 | |
14010684337 | france | who became the first "modern" nation-state by 1789? | 18 | |
14010684338 | national assembly | the elected legislature in France during the first part of the French Revolution represented by the third estate; 1789-91. | 19 | |
14010684339 | jacobins | very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king (during the French Revolution) | 20 | |
14010684340 | committee of public safety | a committee established by Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins during the French Revolution to identify "enemies of the republic" | 21 | |
14010684341 | Maximilien Robespierre | a revolutionary leader who was the the leader of the Reign of Terror and was behind the beheading of many people in France | 22 | |
14010684342 | french directory | a five-member committee which governed France from 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety | 23 | |
14010684343 | Napoleon Bonaparte | who overthrew the French Directory in 1799? | 24 | |
14010684344 | Napoleonic Code | Napoleon's comprehensive laws that recognized the equality of French citizens (meaning men) and institutionalized some of the Enlightenment ideas | 25 | |
14010684345 | Napoleon | Prince Von Metternich, Alexander I of Russia, and Duke of Wellington of Britain were all principal members against who? | 26 | |
14010684346 | Waterloo | the battle on 18 June 1815 in Belgium in which Napoleon met his final defeat | 27 | |
14010684347 | Congress of Vienna | allies that came together to restore a balance of power to Europe after Napoleon's reign | 28 | |
14010684348 | balance of power | the distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong | 29 | |
14010684349 | Haiti | who became the first independent nation in Latin America? | 30 | |
14010684350 | Pierre Toussaint L'Ouverture | a former slave who led a violent, but ultimately successful slave revolt against the French in Haiti | 31 | |
14010684351 | Jacques Dessalines | a former slave that continued to fight for Haiti's Independence after Toussaint-Louverture was captured; proclaimed Haiti as a free republic | 32 | |
14010684352 | Simon Bolivar | a Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 33 | |
14010684353 | Jose de San Martin | a creole who led revolts for Argentina and worked with Bolivar to free Peru from Spanish rule | 34 | |
14010684354 | creole | an American-born Spaniard | 35 | |
14010684355 | John VI | King of Portugal who fled to Brazil when Napoleon invaded Portugal in 1807; father of Pedro I | 36 | |
14010684356 | Pedro I | who declared Brazil free from Portugal and became their first king? | 37 | |
14010684357 | Pedro II | an emperor of Brazil who helped the country develop into a strong one and abolished slavery | 38 | |
14010684358 | Miguel Hidalgo | a Creole priest who sympathized with those who had been abused under Spanish colonialism and led a revolt against Spanish Rule | 39 | |
14010684359 | Treaty of Cordoba | the treaty that officially recognized Mexico as an independent nation | 40 | |
14010684360 | Britain | where did the Industrial Revolution begin? | 41 | |
14010684361 | Industrial Revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation: change in technology, brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power | 42 | |
14010684362 | enclosures | large farm fields enclosed by fences or hedges | 43 | |
14010684363 | urbanization | the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs | 44 | |
14010684364 | domestic system | an early industrial labor system in which work is done in homes rather than in a shop or factory | 45 | |
14010684365 | flying shuttle | an invention by John Kay that made weaving cloth easier and faster | 46 | |
14010684366 | spinning jenny | an invention by John Hargreaves which was capable of spinning vast amounts of thread | 47 | |
14010684367 | cotton gin | a machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers | 48 | |
14010684368 | Eli Whitney | who invented the cotton gin? | 49 | |
14010684369 | steam engine | an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power. | 50 | |
14010684370 | James Watt | improved Thomas Newcomer's inefficient engine leading to the invention of the steam engine | 51 | |
14010684371 | steamship | a large ship powered by steam; invented by Robert Fulton | 52 | |
14010684372 | steam locomotive | a steam powered form of transportation that provided for faster land travel ; invented by George Stephenson | 53 | |
14010684373 | Charles Darwin | an English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) | 54 | |
14010684374 | interchangeable parts | identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing; Eli Whitney | 55 | |
14010684375 | assembly line | a production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks; Henry Ford | 56 | |
14010684376 | Adam Smith | a Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations and designed modern free-market system/capitalism | 57 | |
14010684377 | free-market system | a system where individuals owned *some* of the means of production | 58 | |
14010684378 | capitalism | what is a word for the free-market system? | 59 | |
14010684379 | laissez-faire capitalism | an economic system in which the market makes *all* decisions and the government plays *no role* | 60 | |
14010684380 | Karl Marx | a German economist and philosopher who believed that all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs | 61 | |
14010684381 | socialism | a system in which the state controls the economy | 62 | |
14010684382 | communism | an economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions | 63 | |
14010684383 | Luddites | group of workers who broke into factories and destroyed machinery to protest the working conditions and pitiful wages during the Industrial Revolution | 64 | |
14010684384 | democracy | a form of government in which citizens govern themselves | 65 | |
14010684385 | republic | a form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws. | 66 | |
14010684386 | nationalism | love of one's country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 67 | |
14010684387 | Factory Act of 1883 | laws passed by the British Parliament which limited the hours of each workday, restricted children from working in factories, and required factory owners to make working conditions safer and cleaner | 68 | |
14010684388 | labor unions | an organization formed by workers to strive for better wages and working conditions | 69 | |
14010684389 | social mobility | the ability of a person to work his/her way up from one social class to the next | 70 | |
14010684390 | social darwinism | the belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle | 71 | |
14010684391 | White Man's Burden | the poem by Rudyard Kipling stating that it was white people's "duty" to teach the rest of the world because they were better | 72 | |
14010684392 | ethnocentric | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | 73 | |
14010684393 | British East India Company | a joint-stock company that operated like a multinational corporation with exclusive rights over British trade with India | 74 | |
14010684394 | seproys | Indians who works for the British, mostly as soldiers | 75 | |
14010684395 | yes | did the seproys rebelled after the British violated their beliefs? | 76 | |
14010684396 | no | were the seproy's revolts and rebellions successful? | 77 | |
14010684397 | Bahadur Shah II | the last of the Mughal rulers who was sent into exile | 78 | |
14010684398 | Indian National Congress | an Indian nationalist group formed to work for rights and power for Indians under British rule | 79 | |
14010684399 | opium | which drug were the Chinese too addicted to? | 80 | |
14010684400 | yes | did China make their attempts to restrict the trade of opium with Britain? | 81 | |
14010684401 | Opium War | a conflict between Britain and China, lasting from 1839 to 1842, over Britain's opium trade in China | 82 | |
14010684402 | Treaty of Nanjing | "unequal treaty" to end Opium War in which China had to accept British terms for peace | 83 | |
14010684403 | unequal treaties | treaties that benefited European countries at the expense of China (signed under pressure of invasion) | 84 | |
14010684404 | yes | after the defeat against the British in the Opium War, did the rest of the world see China as an easy target? | 85 | |
14010684405 | White Lotus Rebellions | a rebellion led by Buddhists who were frustrated over taxes and government corruption during the Qing Dynasty | 86 | |
14010684406 | Taiping Rebellion | a mid-19th century rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in China, led by Hong Xiuquan, a religious zealot who claimed to be the brother of Jesus | 87 | |
14010684407 | Self-Strengthening Movement | the Chinese's attempt (1860-1895) to blend Chinese cultural traditions with European industrial technology | 88 | |
14010684408 | Sino-French War | a battle in which the Chinese lost Vietnam to the French, who established a colony there called French Indochina | 89 | |
14010684409 | Sino-Japanese War | war between China and Japan in which Japan gained Taiwan (Treaty of Shimonoseki) | 90 | |
14010684410 | spheres of influence | areas in which countries have some political and economic control but do not govern directly example: China | 91 | |
14010684411 | Chinese Exclusion Act | law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States | 92 | |
14010684412 | Open Door Policy | the American statement that the government did not want colonies in China, but favored free trade there | 93 | |
14010684413 | Boxers | a Patriotic Chinese militant group who killed foreigners and Christian missionaries as an attempt to drive the Europeans and Japan out of China | 94 | |
14010684414 | Boxer Protocol | a protocol that demanded that China not only pay the Europeans and the Japanese the cost associated with the rebellion but also formally apologize for it as well | 95 | |
14010684415 | Commodore Matthew Perry | an American representative that opened up trade with Japan (due to arriving in a steamboat, something Japan was unaware of) | 96 | |
14010684416 | Treaty of Kanagawa | the treaty between the United States and Japan opening trade between the two nations | 97 | |
14010684417 | Meiji Restoration | the restoration of the Emperor Meiji to power in Japan, overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 | 98 | |
14010684418 | Boer War | a war in which Great Britain defeated the Boers of South Africa after the discovery of diamonds and gold | 99 | |
14010684419 | Muhammad Ali | an Ottoman officer who seized power in Egypt and established a separate Egyptian state | 100 | |
14010684420 | Suez Canal | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea | 101 | |
14010684421 | ethiopia and liberia | by 1914, which two countries remained independent of European rule in Africa? | 102 | |
14010684422 | the British | who was more lenient with how their colonies in Africa governed themselves? | 103 | |
14010684423 | Victor Emmanuel II | the King of Sardinia who eventually became the first king of a united Italy | 104 | |
14010684424 | William I | the Leader of Prussia who wanted military expansion, and hired Otto von Bismarck to further his goals | 105 | |
14010684425 | Otto von Bismarck | the German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898) (defeated Austria, formed alliance with Catholic Germans) | 106 | |
14010684426 | Franco-Prussian War | a war against the French and Prussia that led to the creation of the German States; Prussia won | 107 | |
14010684427 | William II | the new emperor of Germany that wished to rule alone, forced Bismarck to resign as prime minister, built a huge navy, pursued colonial ambitions in Africa and Asia, and oversaw the rise of Germany | 108 | |
14010684428 | yes | in Russia, was a vast majority of the population of the citizens serfs (no rights, living an almost slave-like existence)? | 109 | |
14010684429 | Alexander II | a Russian czar from 1855-1881 who freed the serfs | 110 | |
14010684430 | Emancipation Edict | the plan created by Alexander II in 1861 that freed the serfs but eventually had negative effects. | 111 | |
14010684431 | The People's Will | the group that assassinated Alexander II which set the stage for a police state under Alexander III | 112 | |
14010684432 | russification | the process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian empire | 113 | |
14010684433 | yes | after the 16th century, did the Ottoman Empire begin to decline? | 114 | |
14010684434 | Britain and France | who feared what the Russians would do if the Ottoman Empire fell? | 115 | |
14010684435 | Monroe Doctrine | the American policy of discouraging European intervention in the Western Hemisphere | 116 | |
14010684436 | Roosevelt Corollary | an addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting America's right to intervene in Latin American affairs articulated by Theodore Roosevelt | 117 | |
14010684437 | Spanish-American War | conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898 over Cuban independence | 118 | |
14010684438 | Panama Canal | a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean (1904-1914) | 119 |
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