AP World History 7 Flashcards

4265367408	liberals	people who generally favor government action and view change as progress	0
4265367409	radicals	those who favor extreme change	1
4265367410	federalist system	powers shared by the government and its subunits	2
4265367411	gens de couleur	free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.	3
4265367412	Father Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla	priest who led the first major Mexican revolt against Spanish rule in 1810	4
4265367413	Augustine Iterbide	changes sides after he defeats Jose Morelos. He fight for the power for the Creoles and in 1821 Mexico is free from Spain.	5
4265367414	junta	a military group ruling a country after seizing power	6
4265367415	Louis XVI	king of France-executed for treason by the National Convention-absolute monarch-husband of Marie Antoinette.	7
4265367416	Napoleonic Code	French civil code established in the early 1800s; basis of many civil codes today and still remains France's civil code	8
4265367417	National Assembly	a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people	9
4265367418	Jose de San Martin	South American general and statesman, born in Argentina: leader in winning independence for Argentina, Peru, and Chile; protector of Peru	10
4265367419	Alexis de Tocqueville	French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859)	11
4265367420	Francois Dominque Toussaint L'Ouverture	leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.	12
4265367421	George Washington	commander of the Continental Army	13
4265367422	Battle of Waterloo	this was the battle that Napoleon lost after his return from Elba that ended his reign as French ruler	14
4265367423	Mary Wollstonecraft	English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women	15
4265367424	break-of-bulk	a location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another.	16
4265367425	cult of domesticity	idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands	17
4265367426	demographic transition	change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates	18
4265367427	electric telegraph	a device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire.	19
4265367428	Samuel Gompers	led the AFL (American Federation of Labor), a skilled craft union, fought for wages and working conditions, they went on strike, boycotted and used collective bargaining	20
4265367429	interchangeable parts	identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring	21
4265367430	mass production	the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques)	22
4265367431	proletariat	a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages	23
4265367432	utopian socialism	ideal society based on socialist ideals-Louis Blanc and Charles Fourier	24
4265367433	James Watt	Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)	25
4265367434	Josiah Wedgewood	(1759) opened pottery business that mass-produced high quality porcelain at a low cost	26
4265367435	Eli Whitney	United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)	27
4265367436	the Bully of the North	the US was called this by the Latin Americans	28
4265367437	caudillos	military rulers who emerged in new republics across latin america	29
4265367438	Porfirio Diaz	a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants	30
4265367439	Dominion of Canada	the loose confederation of Ontario(upper Canada), Quebec(lower Canada), Nove Scotia, and New Brunswich, created by teh british North America Act in 1867	31
4265367440	Sigmund Freud	Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)	32
4265367441	isolationism	a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations	33
4265367442	isolationist policy	a policy of abstaining from an active role in international affairs or alliances, which characterized US foreign policy toward Europe during most of the 1800's	34
4265367443	Andrew Jackson	7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency	35
4265367444	Benito Juarez	Mexican national hero; brought liberal reforms to Mexico, including separation of church and state, land distribution to the poor, and an educational system for all of Mexico	36
4265367445	La Reforma	a liberal reform movement in 19th-century Mexico, led by Benito Juarez	37
4265367446	Jose Antonio Paez	Venezulean soldier who led Simon Bolivar's cavalry force.	38
4265367447	presidential system	a system of government in which the legislative and executive branches operate independently of each other	39
4265367448	personalist rulers	rulers that became so due to their charismatic influence and personality	40
4265367449	regionalism	a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas	41
4265367450	romanticisim	reaction against the Enlightenment, nature, simplicity and the ideal	42
4265367451	Juan Manuel de Rosas	strongman leader in buenos aires; took power in 1831; commanded loyalty of gauchos; restored local autonomy.	43
4265367452	Washington's Farewell Address	warned Americans not to get involved in European affairs, not to make permanent alliances, not to form political parties and to avoid sectionalism.	44
4265367453	anarchists	people who oppose organized government	45
4265367454	Bolsheviks	a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917	46
4265367455	Boxer Revellion	revolt by China secret society to drive foreigners out	47
4265367456	Canton System	restricted all foreign trade to the port of Canton (trading season)	48
4265367457	Catherine the Great	Empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)	49