chapter 23 vocab Flashcards

329964240	American Revolution:	rebellion of the British American Atlantic seaboard colonies; ended with the formation of the independent United States.	0
329964241	French Revolution:	overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy through a revolution beginning in 1789; created a republic and eventually ended with Napoleon's French Empire; the source of many liberal movements and constitutions in Europe.	1
329964242	Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen:	adopted during the French Revolution; proclaimed the equality of French citizens; became a source document for later liberal movements.	2
329964243	Congress of Vienna:	met in 1815 after the defeat of France to restore the European balance of power.	3
329964244	French Revolution of 1830:	second revolution against the Bourbon dynasty; a liberal movement which created a bourgeois government under a moderate monarchy.	4
329964245	Belgian Revolution of 1830:	produced Belgian independence from the Dutch; established a constitutional monarchy.	5
329964246	Factory system:	intensification of all of the processes of production at a single site during the Industrial Revolution; involved greater organization of labor and increased discipline.	6
329964247	French Revolution of 1848:	overthrew the French monarchy established in 1830; briefly established the second French Republic.	7
329964248	Benjamin Disraeli:	British politician; granted the vote to working-class males in 1867; an example of conservative politicians keeping stability through reform.	8
329964249	Camillo di Cavour:	architect of Italian unification in 1858; created a constitutional Italian monarchy under the King of Piedmont.	9
329964250	American Civil War (1861-1865):	fought to prevent secession of the southern states; the first war to incorporate the products and techniques of the Industrial Revolution; resulted in the abolition of slavery and the reunification of the United States.	10
329964251	Feminist movements:	sought legal and economic gains for women, among them equal access to professions and higher education; came to concentrate on the right to vote; won initial support from middle-class women.	11
329964252	Charles Darwin:	biologist who developed the theory of evolution of the species; argued that all living forms evolved through the successful ability to adapt in a struggle for survival.	12
329964253	Albert Einstein:	formulated mathematical theories to explain the behavior of planetary motion and the movement of electrical particles; about 1900 issued the theory of relativity.	13
329964254	American exceptionalism:	historical argument that the development of the United States was largely individualistic and that contact with Europe was incidental to American formation.	14
329964255	Balkan nationalism:	movements to create independent states and reunite ethnic groups in the Balkans; provoked crises within the European alliance system that ended with the outbreak of World War I.	15