Review Exam 6 Flashcards

161882848	business cycle	-Recurrent swings from economic hard times to recovery and growth, then back to hard times and a repetition of the sequence	0
161882849	Jacobins	-Radical republicans during the French Revolution, they were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793-1794	1
161882850	Crystal Palace	-Building erected in Hyde Park, London, for the Great Exhibition of 1851; made of iron and glass, like a gigantic greenhouse, it was a symbol of the industrial age	2
161882851	Simón Bolívar	-The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led the military forces there and in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia	3
161882852	sepoy	-A soldier in South Asia, especially in the service of the British	4
161882853	Acheh Sultanate	-Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra; main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia; in the early 17th century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malaysia from Portugal in 1641	5
161882854	Josiah Wedgwood	-English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods	6
161882855	George Washington	-Military commander of the American Revolution; he was the first elected president of the U.S.	7
161882856	clipper ship	-Large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel, often American built, of the mid-to late 19th century; rigged w/ vast canvas sails hung from tall masts	8
161882857	"legitimate trade"	-Exports from Africa in the 19th century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade	9
161882858	Confederation of 1867	-Negotiated union of the formerly separated colonial governments of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. This new dominion of Canada w/ a central government in Ottawa is seen as the beginning of the Canadian nation	10