Vocab APWH Unit 4
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| 9300862672 | Reform | Make changes in order to improve it | 0 | |
| 9300862673 | Rebellion | To fail a Revolution | 1 | |
| 9300862674 | Racism | prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief | 2 | |
| 9300862675 | Resistance | the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument | 3 | |
| 9300862676 | Nationalism | patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts | 4 | |
| 9300862677 | Dependency Theory | a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones | 5 | |
| 9300862678 | Jacobins | a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793-4. | 6 | |
| 9300862679 | Meiji Restoration | the modernization and industrialization of Japan in the 1800's | 7 | |
| 9300862680 | French Revolution | The French Revolution began with the meeting of the legislative assembly (the States General) in May 1789 when the French government was already in crisis; the Bastille was stormed in July of the same year. The revolution became steadily more radical and ruthless with power increasingly in the hands of the Jacobins and Robespierre; Louis XVI's execution in January 1793 was followed by Robespierre's Reign of Terror. The revolution failed to produce a stable form of republican government, and after several different forms of administration, the last, the Directory, was overthrown by Napoleon in 1799. | 8 | |
| 9300862681 | Suffrage | the right to vote in political elections. | 9 | |
| 9300862682 | Suez Canal | a shipping canal that connects the Mediterranean Sea at Port Said with the Red Sea. It was constructed between 1859 and 1869 under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps. From 1888 it was a neutral zone under British protection; its nationalization by Egypt in 1956 prompted the Suez crisis. | 10 | |
| 9300862683 | Marxism | Central to Marxist theory is an explanation of social change in terms of economic factors, according to which the means of production provide the economic base, which influences or determines the political and ideological superstructure. Marx and Engels predicted the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat and the eventual attainment of a classless communist society. | 11 | |
| 9300862684 | Social Darwinism | the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform | 12 | |
| 9300862685 | Mechanization | introduce machines or automatic devices into (a process, activity, or place) | 13 | |
| 9300862686 | Industrialism | an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship | 14 | |
| 9300862687 | Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | 15 | |
| 9300862688 | Unprecedented | never done or known before | 16 | |
| 9300862689 | Unification | an occurrence that involves the production of a union | 17 | |
| 9300862690 | Ethnocentrism | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | 18 | |
| 9300862691 | Eugenics | the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) | 19 | |
| 9300862692 | "White Man's Burden" | idea that many European countries had a duty to spread their religion and culture to those less civilized | 20 | |
| 9300862693 | Global Commerce | a worldwide market that encouraged trade around the world by the "gold standard" | 21 | |
| 9300862694 | Communist Manifesto | a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views | 22 | |
| 9300862695 | Luddites | Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment. | 23 | |
| 9300862696 | Zaibastu | wealthy business families in japan | 24 | |
| 9300862697 | Enclosure Act | Laws passed by Parliament "closing off" common lands to small farmers | 25 | |
| 9300862698 | Leisure Time | time available for ease and relaxation | 26 | |
| 9300862699 | Famine | Lack of food in a place; time of starving | 27 | |
| 9300862700 | Anti- Semitism | hatred of Jews | 28 | |
| 9300862701 | Poverty | the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | 29 | |
| 9300862702 | Emancipation | freeing someone from the control of another | 30 | |
| 9300862703 | Autocracy | a political system governed by a single individual | 31 | |
| 9300862704 | Napoleon | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) | 32 | |
| 9300862705 | Napoleonic Code | This was the civil code put out by Napoleon that granted equality of all male citizens before the law and granted absolute security of wealth and private property. Napoleon also secured this by creating the Bank of France which loyally served the interests of both the state and the financial oligarchy | 33 | |
| 9300862706 | Congress of Vienna, 1815 | Convention of major European powers to redraw the boundaries of continental Europe after the defeat of Napoleonic France. (252) | 34 | |
| 9300862707 | Mexican Revolution 1910 - 1917 | The bloody conflict in Mexico that established the long-lived PRI regime. | 35 | |
| 9300862708 | Profirio Diaz | President of Mexico continuously from 1876 to 1911 he fell from power during the Mexican Revolution, after he had imprisoned his electoral rival and declared himself the winner of an eighth term in office. The years in which he ruled Mexico are referred to as the Porfiriato. | 36 | |
| 9300862709 | Sun Yat-sen | Chinese nationalist revolutionary, founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders. | 37 | |
| 9300862710 | Chinese Revolution | A political revolution in China led by Mao Zedong. After several years of fighting the Kuomintang, the communists won control of the country in 1949. | 38 | |
| 9300862711 | Democracy | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 39 | |
| 9300862712 | Communism | a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. | 40 | |
| 9300862713 | Liberalism | a political orientation that favors progress and reform | 41 | |
| 9300862714 | Radicalism | the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society | 42 | |
| 9300862715 | Realism | While realism in art is often used in the same contexts as naturalism, implying a concern to depict or describe accurately and objectively, it also suggests a deliberate rejection of conventionally beautiful or appropriate subjects in favor of sincerity and a focus on simple and unidealized treatment of contemporary life. Specifically, the term is applied to a late 19th-century movement in French painting and literature represented by Gustave Courbet in the former and Balzac, Stendhal, and Flaubert in the latter. | 43 | |
| 9300862716 | Capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership of capital | 44 | |
| 9300862717 | Suffrage | a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution | 45 | |
| 9300862718 | Parliament | a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain) | 46 | |
| 9300862719 | Insurrection | organized opposition to authority | 47 | |
| 9300862720 | Imperialism | a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries | 48 | |
| 9300862721 | Opium Wars | conflict between Britain and China in 1839 over the Opium trade | 49 | |
| 9300862722 | Boxer Rebellion | 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops. | 50 | |
| 9300862723 | Berlin Conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa | 51 | |
| 9300862724 | Otto Von Bismarck | Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1815-98), Prussian minister and German statesman; chancellor of the German Empire 1871-90; also known as the Iron Chancellor; full name Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck. He was the driving force behind the unification of Germany, orchestrating wars with Denmark (1864), Austria (1866), and France (1870-1) in order to achieve this end. | 52 | |
| 9300862725 | Alliance System | defense agreement among nations | 53 | |
| 9300862726 | Militarism | Policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war | 54 | |
| 9300862727 | Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers | 55 | |
| 9300862728 | Roosevelt Corollary | Addition to the Monroe Doctrine that stated that the U.S. would act lime a policeman in relation to Latin America., Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force | 56 | |
| 9300862729 | Modernization | making modern in appearance or behavior | 57 | |
| 9300862730 | Westernization | adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture | 58 | |
| 9300862731 | "The Eastern Question" | In Western Europe this was the name given to the problem of what to do with the whole Polish-Turkish tract of land which stretched though Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine into Egypt - particularly as the Powers of Poland and Turkey decayed. | 59 |
