AP World History Unit 5 (Key Terms) Flashcards
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4313533250 | Guano | Bird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century. | ![]() | 0 |
4313533251 | Suez Canal | Canal constructed by Egypt across the Isthmus of Suez in 1869. | ![]() | 1 |
4313533252 | Communism | An economic system in which the state controls the means of production. | ![]() | 2 |
4313533253 | Liberalism | An Enlightenment philosophy that favored civil rights, the protection of private property, and representative government. | ![]() | 3 |
4313533254 | Queu | A long ponytail that Chinese men were forced to wear in order to distinguish them from Manchus | 4 | |
4313533255 | Domestic System | A manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes rather than a factory setting | 5 | |
4313533256 | Maoris | A member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 C.E. | ![]() | 6 |
4313533257 | Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of The Citizen | A statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution. | ![]() | 7 |
4313533258 | Declaration Of Independence | A document modeled after the political philosophies of John Locke. It altered the natural rights identified by John Locke to include "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." | 8 | |
4313533259 | Self-Strengthening Movement | A late nineteenth-century movement in which the Chinese modernized their army and encouraged western investment in factories and railways | ![]() | 9 |
4313533260 | Code Napoleon (Napoleonic Code) | Collection of laws that standard¬ized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. | ![]() | 10 |
4313533261 | Spanish-American War | Conflict between the United States and Spain that began the rise of the United States as a world power. | ![]() | 11 |
4313533262 | Jacobins | Extreme radicals during the French revolution | ![]() | 12 |
4313533263 | Romanticism | A literary and artistic movement in nineteenth-century Europe; emphasized emotion over reason. | ![]() | 13 |
4313533264 | Declaration Of The Rights Of Women And Of The Female | A statement of the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man. | ![]() | 14 |
4313533265 | Theory Of Relativity | Idea which argued that time and space are relative to one another. | ![]() | 15 |
4313533266 | Theory Of Natural Selection | Idea, first proposed by Charles Darwin, that species survive due to favorable characteristics | ![]() | 16 |
4313533267 | Bourgeoisie | In France, the class of merchants and artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of the French Revolution; in Marx¬ist theory, a term referring to factory owners. | ![]() | 17 |
4313533268 | Spanish Civil War | A conflict from 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces. (1898) | ![]() | 18 |
4313533269 | Economic Imperialism | Control of a country's economy by the businesses of another nation. | ![]() | 19 |
4313533270 | Revolutions Of 1848 | Democratic and nationalis¬tic revolutions, most of them unsuccessful, that swept through Europe. | ![]() | 20 |
4313533271 | Spheres Of Influence | Divisions of a country in which a particular foreign nation enjoys economic privileges. | ![]() | 21 |
4313533272 | Proletarian | In Marxist theory, the class of workers in an industrial society | ![]() | 22 |
4313533273 | Conservatism | In nineteenth-century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches | ![]() | 23 |
4313533274 | Factors Of Production | Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship, which existed in Britain which allowed it to lead in the Industrial Revolution | ![]() | 24 |
4313533275 | Zaibatsu | Large industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late nineteenth century | ![]() | 25 |
4313533276 | Conscription | Military draft | ![]() | 26 |
4313533277 | Tanzimet Reforms | Nineteenth century reforms by Ottoman rulers designed to make government and military more efficient | 27 | |
4313533278 | Monroe Doctrine | Policy issued by the United States in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers. | ![]() | 28 |
4313533279 | Indian National Congress | Political party that became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement. | ![]() | 29 |
4313533280 | Congress Of Vienna | Restored legitimate monarchs to the thrones of Europe and to create a balance of power. | ![]() | 30 |
4313533281 | Boxer Rebellion | Revolt against foreign residents of China | ![]() | 31 |
4313533282 | Sepoy Rebellion | Revolt of Indian soldiers against the British; caused by a military practice in violation of the Muslim and Hindu faiths.(1857) | ![]() | 32 |
4313533283 | Natural Rights | Rights that belong to every person and that no government may take away. | ![]() | 33 |
4313533284 | Revolution Of 1905 | Strikes by urban workers and peasants in Russia; prompted by shortages of food and by Russia's loss to Japan in 1905. | ![]() | 34 |
4313533285 | Entrepreneurship | The ability to combine the fac¬tors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production. | ![]() | 35 |
4313533286 | Social Darwinism | The application of Darwin's philosophy of natural selection to human society | ![]() | 36 |
4313533287 | Separation Of Powers | The division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. | ![]() | 37 |
4313533288 | Estates | The divisions of society in pre-revolutionary France | ![]() | 38 |
4313533289 | Imperialism | The establishment of colonial empires. | ![]() | 39 |
4313533290 | Enclosure Movement | The fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution. | ![]() | 40 |
4313533291 | Bill Of Rights | The first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States | ![]() | 41 |
4313533292 | Qing Dynasty | The Manchurian invaders who ruled China from 1644 to the early 1900s | ![]() | 42 |
4313533293 | Berlin Conference | The meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them | ![]() | 43 |
4313533294 | Capital | The money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization | ![]() | 44 |
4313533295 | Feminism | The movement to achieve women's rights. | ![]() | 45 |
4313533296 | Great Trek | Slaveholding Boers, who in 1834, left the Cape Colony and moved to the interior of Africa | ![]() | 46 |
4313533297 | Young Turks | Society founded in 1889 in the Otto¬man Empire; its goal was to restore the constitu¬tion of 1876 and to reform the empire. | ![]() | 47 |
4313533298 | Boers | South Africans of Dutch descent. | ![]() | 48 |
4313533299 | Sepoys | South Asian soldiers who served in the Brit¬ish army in India. | ![]() | 49 |
4313533300 | Reign Of Terror | The period of the most extreme violence during the French Revolution | ![]() | 50 |
4313533301 | Manifest Destiny | The policy in the U.S. that led to its expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific | ![]() | 51 |
4313533302 | Meiji Restoration | The restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokogawa Shogunate | ![]() | 52 |
4313533303 | Extraterritoriality | The right of foreigners to live under the laws of their home country rather than those of the host country. | ![]() | 53 |
4313533304 | Industrial Revolution | The transition between the domestic system of manufacturing and the mechanization of production in a factory setting | ![]() | 54 |
4313533305 | Treaty Of Nanking | Treaty ending the' Opium War that ceded Hong Kong to the British. (1842) | ![]() | 55 |
4313533306 | Duma | The Russian parliament | ![]() | 56 |
4313533307 | Raj | The Sanskrit name for the British government in India | ![]() | 57 |
4313533308 | Gran Columbia | The temporary union of the northern portion of South America after the independence movements led by Simon Bolivar | ![]() | 58 |
4313533309 | Estates-General | The traditional legislative body of France | ![]() | 59 |
4313533310 | Pogrom | Violence against Jews in tsarist Russia. | ![]() | 60 |
4313533311 | Opium War | War between Great Britain and China began with the Qing dynasty's refusal to allow continued opium importation into China; British victory resulted in the Treaty of Nanking.(1839-1842) | ![]() | 61 |
4313533312 | Sino-Japanese War | War between Japan and China, in 1895, over control over Korea | ![]() | 62 |
4313533313 | Russo-Japanese War | War between Russia and Japan over Manchurian territory; resulted in the degeat of Russia by the Japanese Navy | ![]() | 63 |
4313533314 | Boer War | War between the Brit¬ish and the Dutch over Dutch independence in South Africa; resulted in British victory .(1899-1902) | ![]() | 64 |
4313533315 | Radicalism | Western European political philosophy during the nineteenth century; advocated democracy and reforms favoring lower classes. | ![]() | 65 |