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| 13620085488 | abolitionist movement | An international movement that between 1780 and 1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world; the movement was especially prominent in Britain and the United States. |  | 0 |
| 13620085489 | Creoles | Native-born middle class in the Spanish colonies...led most independence movements |  | 1 |
| 13620085490 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | Document 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 |
| 13620085491 | Estates-General | French 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. |  | 3 |
| 13620085492 | French Revolution | Massive 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. |  | 4 |
| 13620085493 | Haitian Revolution | The 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 and led to the establishment of an independent state after a long and bloody war (1791-1804). |  | 5 |
| 13620085494 | Hidalgo-Morelos Revolution | Socially radical peasant insurrection that began in Mexico in 1810 and that was led by the priests | 6 | |
| 13620085495 | Latin American Revolutions | revolts over mercantilism and social classes, made possible by Napoleon's invasion of Spain. ... for the most part retained the privileges of the elites despite efforts at more radical social rebellion by the lower classes. | 7 | |
| 13620085496 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | First leader of the Haitian Revolution, a former slave (1743-1803) who wrote the first constitution of Haiti |  | 8 |
| 13620085497 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French dictator from 1799 until his abdication in 1814 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. |  | 9 |
| 13620085498 | Nationalism | pride in ones nation or people...unified German and Italy...tore apart Austria and Ottomans |  | 10 |
| 13620085499 | North American Revolution | Successful rebellion conducted by the colonists America against British rule (1775-1781); | 11 | |
| 13620085500 | Reign of Terror | Term 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. |  | 12 |
| 13620085501 | Third Estate | In prerevolutionary France, the term used for the 98 percent of the population that were mostly poor (except Bourgeoise) and paid all the taxes.. in 1789, it declared itself a National Assembly and launched the French Revolution. |  | 13 |
| 13620085502 | Bourgeoisie | Middle class part of French 3rd estate that launched revolution. also...Term that Karl Marx used to describe the owners of industrial capital; originally meant "townspeople." |  | 14 |
| 13620085503 | Crimean War | Major international conflict (1854-1856) in which British and French forces supported the Ottomans and defeated Russia; the defeat prompted reforms within Russia and marked a transistion to modern warfare |  | 15 |
| 13620085504 | Karl Marx | wrote the Communist Manifesto |  | 16 |
| 13620085505 | Mexican Revolution | Long and bloody war (1911-1920) in which Mexican reformers from the middle class joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Díaz and create a new, much more democratic political order. |  | 17 |
| 13620085506 | Robert Owens | Socialist thinker and wealthy mill owner (1771-1858) who created an ideal industrial community at New Lanark, Scotland. |  | 18 |
| 13620085507 | Proletariat | Term that Karl Marx used to describe the industrial working class; would rise up in a communist revolution |  | 19 |
| 13620085508 | Steam engine | watt invention which made the industrial rev. possible by powering factories and transportation |  | 20 |
| 13620085509 | Boxer Rebellion | Rising of Chinese militia organizations in 1900 against foreign powers in China |  | 21 |
| 13620085510 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who retained substantial autonomy under the Tokugawa shogunate and only lost their social preeminence in the Meiji restoration. |  | 22 |
| 13620085511 | Meiji Restoration | The overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan in 1868, restoring power at long last to the emperor..modernization of Japan |  | 23 |
| 13620085512 | Matthew Perry | U.S. navy commodore who in 1853 presented the ultimatum that led Japan to open itself to more normal relations with the outside world. |  | 24 |
| 13620085513 | Opium Wars | Two wars fought between Western powers (Britain) and China (1839-1842 and 1856-1858) after China tried to restrict the importation of foreign goods; China lost and was forced to make major concessions. Britain gained Hong Kong |  | 25 |
| 13620085514 | Russo-Japanese War | Ending in a Japanese victory, this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905. |  | 26 |
| 13620085515 | Samurai | Armed 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. |  | 27 |
| 13620085516 | The Sick Man of Europe | Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a name based on the sultans' inability to prevent Western takeover of many regions and to deal with internal problems; it fails to recognize serious reform efforts in the Ottoman state during this period. |  | 28 |
| 13620085517 | Social Darwinism | An application of the concept of "survival of the fittest" to human history in the nineteenth century. |  | 29 |
| 13620085518 | Taiping Uprising | Massive Chinese peasant rebellion that devastated much of the country between 1850 and 1864; |  | 30 |
| 13620085519 | Tanzimat Reforms | Important reform measures undertaken in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1839; the term means "reorganization." |  | 31 |
| 13620085520 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Rulers of Japan from 1600 to 1868. closed Japan to foreigners |  | 32 |
| 13620085521 | Spheres of Influence | areas of economic control that Europe carved into China |  | 33 |
| 13620085522 | Young Turks | Movement of Turkish military and civilian elites that developed ca. 1900, eventually bringing down the Ottoman Empire |  | 34 |
| 13620085523 | Apartheid | Afrikaans term for the system that developed in South Africa of strictly limiting the social and political integration of whites and blacks. |  | 35 |
| 13620085524 | Cash crop agriculture | Agricultural production, often on a large scale, of crops for sale in the market, rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves. |  | 36 |
| 13620085525 | Sepoy Rebellion of 1857-1858 | Massive uprising of much of India against British rule; the rebellion first broke out among Indian troops in British employ. led to direct British rule over India rather than the British East India comany |  | 37 |
| 13620085526 | Scramble for Africa | Name used for the process of the European countries' partition of the continent of Africa between themselves in the period 1875-1900. |  | 38 |
| 13620085527 | French Rev. | social class dissatisfaction of 3rd estate who paid all the taxes and had no power...weak rulers, national debt, soaring bread prices were causes of the .. | 39 | |
| 13620085528 | Napoleonic Code | French law code based on equality under the law that became the basis of laws in Europe and Latin America | 40 | |
| 13620085529 | Constitution | based on separation of powers and checks and balances | 41 | |
| 13620085530 | Congress of Vienna | 1815 meeting that tried to restore the balance of power in Europe and the heads of state | 42 | |
| 13620085531 | Civil WAr | slavery, states rights, secession & sectionalism led to this American event that strengthened the power of the federal govt over states and ended slavery | 43 | |
| 13620085532 | liberal | ideology of the enlightenment and French REv. based on constitutional govt, middle class, equality under the law | 44 | |
| 13620085533 | conservative | ideology of the congress of vienna who wanted absolute rule and established social classes | 45 | |
| 13620085534 | Britian | bc of stable govt, resources, colonies, middle class wealth, scientific rev. enclosure movement, population boom...the Industrial Rev began in ... | 46 | |
| 13620085535 | Bessemer | process to produce steel | 47 | |
| 13620085536 | Bismarck | used nationalism, realpolitik and blood and iron to unify Germany | 48 | |
| 13620085537 | Berlin Conference | meeting of European leaders to set up the rules to colonize Africa | 49 | |
| 13620085538 | Serfdom | Russia did not end this labor system until the late 1800's. it was necessary to industrialize Russia | 50 | |
| 13620085539 | Tanzimat reforms | changes in Ottoman empire with access to western education, building telegraphs and postal system, western style constitution | 51 | |
| 13620085540 | Japan and Russia | industrialized under govt direction rather than private citizens | 52 | |
| 13620085541 | liberty | even though the American rev. was based on enlightenment ideas, it was more focused on....than the french rev. | 53 | |
| 13620085542 | education | in this 1750-1900 period...women gained rights to.... | 54 | |
| 13620085543 | enclosure movement | ended common land in Britain, so landless farmers moved to the cities for work | 55 | |
| 13620085544 | Muhammad Ali | who tried to make and independent Egypt by modernizing and growing cotton, but was prevented by British desire to control trade routes to India | 56 | |
| 13620085545 | Enlightenment | Amer. and Fr. revolution spread these ideas | 57 | |
| 13620085546 | Monroe Doctrine | After Latin Amer. Rev....the USA declared the western hemisphere (Latin Amer) closed to European colonization | 58 | |
| 13620085547 | Thailand, Ethiopia, LIberia | all independent, despite European colonization of most of the continents | 59 | |
| 13620085548 | Japan | though China and India could not stop European imperial influence, this nation was able to limit it. | 60 | |
| 13620085549 | Russia | Autocratic govt, orthodox religion, and nationalism were characteristics of.... | 61 | |
| 13620085550 | White Man's Burden | ideas of social darwinism and humanitarianism were used as a justification for british imperialism in what poem | 62 | |
| 13620085551 | Garibaldi | united Northern and southern italy | 63 | |
| 13620085552 | Spanish American War | as a result of this....the USA gained Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.....but Cuba gained independence | 64 | |
| 13620085553 | sick man of europe | nickname of the Ottoman empire | 65 | |
| 13620085554 | women | gained some rights in western europe and India..in France, gained rights with rev. but lost many of them under Napoleon | 66 | |
| 13620085555 | Ricardo | Iron Law of Wages....rising and falling birth rates condemned the poor to a cycle of povert.....who? | 67 | |
| 13620085556 | Malthus | population is increasing faster than food supply | 68 | |
| 13620085557 | self determination | right of a country to choose its govt | 69 | |
| 13620085558 | laisse faire | govt should stay out of business & economy | 70 | |
| 13620085559 | Adam Smith | father of capitalism...private ownership....econ run by invisible hand--supply and demand and competition --anti mercantilism and govt in economy | 71 | |
| 13620085560 | Dickens | his novels depicted the deplorable conditions of the poor | 72 | |
| 13620085561 | impressionist | French artistic movement that captures the impression on the senses...Monet | 73 | |
| 13620085562 | Romantic | artistic movement focusing on emotion--rebellion against industrial rev. Keats | 74 | |
| 13620085563 | Neoclassical | artistic movement of french rev. Jacques Louis David | 75 | |
| 13620085564 | REalism | artistic movement focusing on life as it was...Bronte, Austen, Dickens | 76 | |
| 13620085565 | Darwin | all forms of life evolved over millions of years, natural selection | 77 | |
| 13620085566 | industrial rev. | results were pollution, rise of middle class, dissenting economic theories, urbanization, labor unions | 78 | |
| 13620085567 | telegraph | Morse communication invention | 79 | |
| 13620085568 | Bell | invented telephone | 80 | |
| 13620085569 | Arkwright | invented wheel frame | 81 | |
| 13620085570 | fulton | invented steam boat | 82 | |
| 13620085571 | Marx | said history is a history of class struggle....bourgeiosie overthown by proletariat....classless society | 83 | |
| 13620085572 | utilitarian | Betham and Mill--greatest happiness for greates number | 84 | |
| 13620085573 | robert owen | utopian socialist communities | 85 | |
| 13620085574 | Seneca Falls Declaration | womens suffrage movement | 86 | |
| 13620085575 | Open Door policy | USA demanded equal trade in China | 87 | |
| 13620085576 | Canton System | allowed Europeans to trade with China at one port from mid 18th c. to Opium war when all of Europe came in | 88 | |
| 13620085577 | McCartney mission | culturally unsuccessful British attempt to gain diplomatic and trade relations with China | 89 | |
| 13620085578 | USA | Where??? late 1800's 1900's migration from east and southern Europe to find work in factories, despite negative reaction and anti immigration laws | 90 | |
| 13620085579 | potato famine | because of this in Ireland, many immigrated to the USA | 91 |
