[PART 4] Ch. 25-27: Revolutions and Industrialization outside the West Flashcards

Time : 1750-1914
(Latin America, Asia, Russia, Japan)

162109186	Caudillo	independent leaders who dominated local areas by force to defy national policies, seized governments, typical of newly independent countries in Latin America	0
162315867	Fazenda	coffee estates in Brazil, export in trade, led to increase in slavery	1
162315868	La Reforma	liberal rebellion of Benito Juarez against Santa Ana	2
162315869	Miguel de Hidalgo	Mexican priest who established independence movement among Indians and mestizos	3
162315870	Positivism	French philosophy based on scientific approach to problems of society, adopted by liberals after independence	4
162315871	Simon Bolivar	officer in S Africa, created independent Gran Colombia (made of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador)	5
162315872	Spanish-American War	allowed American intervention in Caribbean, annexed Puerto Rico & Phillipines	6
162315873	Toussaint L'Overture	leader of slave rebellion in St.Domingue (French sugar islands), led to creation of Haiti	7
162315874	Boxer Rebellion	expel foreigners in China, failed because of Western intervention, defeat led to increased European control	8
162315875	Compradors	wealthy Chinese merchants in Qing, trade on south coast, major links to outside world	9
162315876	Extraterritoriality	right of foreigners to be protected by laws of their own nation	10
162315877	Khedives	descendants of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, formal rulers of Egypt until overthrow by military	11
162315878	Mahdi	head of Sufi brotherhood, revolt to purge Egypt of impurities	12
162682822	Anarchists	political groups that wanted to get rid of all formal government, opposed tsars, became terrorist movement	13
162682823	Bolsheviks	most radical part of Marxist movement, led by Lenin, triumph in 1917 social revolution	14
162682824	Decembrist Uprising	political revolt led by army officers who wanted reforms, put down by Tsar Nicholas II	15
162682825	Duma	national Russian parliament after Revolution of 1905 (strikes by workers resulting in temp reforms)	16
162682826	Emancipation of the Serfs	ended serfdom by Alexander II, no political rights, required to stay in villages until they could pay back land	17
162682827	Holy Alliance	Russia, Prussia, Austria to defend religion, formed at Congress of Vienna	18
162682828	Russo-Japanese War	1905, over Manchuria, Japan won with naval power	19
162682829	Trans-Siberian Railroad	constructed in 1870s to connect Russia with Pacific	20
162682830	Diet	Japanese parliament by new constitution, part of Meiji reforms, could pass laws but not control government	21
162682831	Dutch studies	Japanese scholars interested in Western science, wanted more interaction	22
162682832	Meiji Restoration	after destruction of Tokugawa Shogunate, young leaders set Japan to centralize, industrialize	23
162682833	Sino-Japanese War	Japan and Qing China, Japanese victory but West wanted it to end imperialism (yellow peril)	24