APWH Ch 21 - 22 Vocab Flashcards
The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History (3rd Edition)
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| 324714307 | Enlightenment | methods and questions of the Scientific Revolution to study human society | 0 | |
| 324714308 | Ben Franklin | writer and inventor; represented the vast potential of America; Poor Richard's Almanac | 1 | |
| 324714309 | George Washington | first president in 1787 | 2 | |
| 324714310 | Joseph Brant | the Mohawk's loyalist leader | 3 | |
| 324714311 | Constitutional Convention | new constitution established govn't we have now | 4 | |
| 324714312 | Estates General | the French national legislature (traditional); consisted of the 3 estates; led to the French revolution | 5 | |
| 324714313 | National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly; passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 | 6 | |
| 324714314 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Liberty, property, security & resistance to oppression" free expression of ideas, rep gov't; Jefferson helped to write it | 7 | |
| 324714315 | Jacobins | radical republicans during the French Revolution | 8 | |
| 324714316 | Maximilien Robespierre | laser who led the French Revolution; execution ended the Reign of Terror | 9 | |
| 324714317 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew French Directory in 1799; emperor of French in 1804; died in exile | 10 | |
| 324714318 | gens de couleur | free men and women of color in Haiti | 11 | |
| 324714319 | Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture | leader of the Haitian revolution; freed the slaves and gained independence for Haiti | 12 | |
| 324714320 | Congress of Vienna | established a "Holy Alliance" of Aust., Russia, Prussia, Britain met to restore order in Europe, especially in France. "Roll back the clock" | 13 | |
| 324714321 | Revolutions of 1848 | Workers overthrow Louis Philippe, est. French Republic (reforms) | 14 | |
| 324714322 | Industrial Revolution | transformation of the economy, environment, and living conditions; resulted because of steam engines, mechanization, and innovations in transportation and communication | 15 | |
| 324714323 | mass production | division of labor | 16 | |
| 324714324 | Josiah Wedgwood | English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods | 17 | |
| 324714325 | division of labor | manufacturing technique that breaks down a craft into many simple and repetitive tasks | 18 | |
| 324714326 | mechanization | reduce costs with labor-saving machinery | 19 | |
| 324714327 | Richard Arkwright | English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the early IR | 20 | |
| 324714328 | Crystal Palace | building in Hyde Park, London for Great Exhibition of 1851; made of iron and glass; symbol of industrial age | 21 | |
| 324714329 | steam engine | turns energy reeled by buying fuel into motion | 22 | |
| 324714330 | James Watt | improved the steam engine; "watt" electrical measurement named after him | 23 | |
| 324714331 | electric telegraph | device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire; replaced telegraph systems that used visual signals | 24 | |
| 324714332 | business cycles | recurrent swings from economic hard times, to recovery and growth, back to hard times (repetition) | 25 | |
| 324714333 | laissez faire | idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs | 26 | |
| 324714334 | mercantilism | European government policies designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland country | 27 | |
| 324714335 | positivism | scientific method can be used to solve social problems | 28 | |
| 324714336 | utopian socialism | hope to create humane alternatives to industrial capitalism by building self sustaining communities whose inhabitants would work cooperatively | 29 |