381120045 | Constitutional Convention | when elected representatives got together to write the Constitution | 0 | |
381120046 | Estates General | France's Traditional national assembly with representatives from each of the three estates (the clergy, nobility, or commoners) | 1 | |
381120047 | National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly. Demanded radical change. Passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man. | 2 | |
381120048 | Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution that was lead by Robespierre | 3 | |
381120049 | Congress of Vienna | meeting of European monarch to reestablish the old order after the Napoleon I was defeated | 4 | |
386834768 | Agricultural Revolution | new crops; improvements in cultivation techniques in livestock breeding; consolidated small farms into bigger ones for more efficiency | 5 | |
386834769 | Mass Production | the production of many identical products. The production process is comprised of small repetitive tasks. | 6 | |
386834770 | Division of Labor | a manufacturing technique that breaks the process into many small, repetitive tasks | 7 | |
386834771 | Laissez Faire | the idea that the government should refrain from interfering with economic affairs. | 8 | |
386834772 | Utopian Socialism | a philosophy introduced by the French Charles Fourier. He wanted to build self-sustaining communities whose inhabitants would work cooperatively. | 9 | |
386834773 | Business Cycles | recurrent swings in the economy between good times and bad times | 10 | |
386834774 | mechanization | the application of machinery to tasks or the manufacturing process | 11 | |
386834775 | Simon Bolivar | the most important leader for the South American independence movements | 12 | |
386834776 | Personalist Leaders | political leaders that rely on charisma to rally popular support | 13 | |
386834777 | Caste War | a rebellion of the Mayan people against the government of Mexico in 1847 | 14 | |
386834778 | Acculturation | the adoption of the language, customs, values, and behaviors of host nations by immigrants | 15 | |
386834779 | Benito Juarez | the president of Mexico that led the resistance against the French invasion in 1863; lawyer | 16 | |
386834780 | Women's Rights Convention | a group of women that met in Seneca Falls in 1848 that decided that women should have the right to vote; began women's rights movements | 17 | |
386834781 | Zulu | Africans of modern South Africa. King Shaka united them in 1818. A very powerful African tribe, but not as powerful as the Dutch Afrikaners. | 18 | |
386834782 | Muhammad Ali | he was the leader of Egypt in the early 1800s that wanted to modernize Egypt. Started the Suez Canal project | 19 | |
386834783 | New Imperialism | a wave of conquests by Europe, the United States, and japan in the late 1800s-early 1900s | 20 | |
386834784 | Sepoy Rebellion | this was a revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 because they were mad about some of the practices they were forced to do because it violated their religious beliefs | 21 | |
386834785 | Raj | British rule in India | 22 | |
386834786 | Indian National Congress | this group demanded more Indian participation in the government. It's members were in the middle class and it appealed to the poor. | 23 | |
386834787 | Clipper Ships | these were large, fast moving sailing vessels that were often American built. Vast canvas sails hung from the masts. | 24 | |
386834788 | Sokoto Caliphate | a large Muslim state founded in 1809 in modern-day northern Nigeria | 25 | |
386834789 | Janissaries | Christian soldiers who were forced to serve for the Ottomans. They opposed the Ottoman reforms, so they caused military uprisings. | 26 | |
386834790 | Crimean War | Ottomans vs. Russians. It was fought on the ~ Peninsula. Britain and France helped the Ottomans to prevent the Russians from expanding any further. | 27 | |
386834791 | Young Ottomans | these were young intellectuals that wanted liberal reforms in the 1850s-1900s | 28 | |
386834792 | Pan-Slavism | Russian intellectuals that wanted to identify culturally and politically with all of the Slavic peoples, regardless of which country they were in | 29 | |
386834793 | Decemberist Revolt | this occured after Tsar Alexander died and a variety of people wanted to take over. | 30 | |
386834794 | Opium War | Britain vs. Qing Empire. Qing didn't want British to send Opium to their empire. They set up a naval blockade, but the British Navy destroyed them. The Treaty of Nanking opened more ports to British trade, and it gave the British "most-favored-nation" status. | 31 | |
386834795 | Bannermen | hereditary military servants of the Qing Empire, in large part descendants of peoples of various origins who had fought for the founders of the empire. | 32 | |
386834796 | Taiping Rebellion | bloodiest civil war of all time during the Qing Empire | 33 | |
386834797 | Victorian Age | name for the Reign of Queen Victoria with strict moral standards and specific gender roles | 34 | |
386834798 | Labor Unions | a group of workers with similar jobs that get together to protect a common interest | 35 | |
386834799 | Karl Marx | German journalist/philosopher who founded socialism. He wrote "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" | 36 | |
386834800 | Otto von Bismark | a chancellor of Prussia that beat Austria and France to create the German Empire in 1871. | 37 | |
386834801 | Meiji Restoration | followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism | 38 | |
386834802 | Berlin Conference | Otto von Bismark called this meeting to set the rules of colonization of Africa in 1884-1885 | 39 | |
386834803 | Afrikaners | South Africans of Dutch and French descent that ruled the black majority and established the Apartheid system. | 40 |
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