AP World History Flashcards
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4125374341 | Muckrakers | Writers who uncovered unsanitary practices in slaughter houses, prompting federal reform and new laws | 0 | |
4125374342 | Progressives | Reformers who attacked corrupt city governments and urban vices such as prostitution, gambling, and drinking | 1 | |
4125374343 | Sun Yat-Sen | Leader of nationalist movement in China that would eventually overthrow the Qing Dynasty in 1911 | 2 | |
4125374344 | Boxer Protocol | Unequal treaty that required Chinese regime to pay twice the empire's income for damages and authorized Western powers to station troops in Beijing as payment for putting down rebellion | 3 | |
4125374345 | Populist Party | Organized by small farmers, it protested against banks, industrialists, monopolies, the existing money system, and corrupt political parties | 4 | |
4125374346 | Progressive Party | In the early 1900s and American political pushed for specific reforms like wages and hours laws, better sanitation standards, antitrust laws, more government intervention in the economy | 5 | |
4125374347 | General Porfirio Diaz | Led the government of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1920 | 6 | |
4125374348 | Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata | Led the revolt against the Mexican Government during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 | 7 | |
4125374349 | Albert Einstein | German who challenged idea that a single unified scientific theory could explain everything, although he did come up with the theory of relativity | 8 | |
4125374350 | Friedrich Nietzsche | He claimed that faith in science or Judeo-Christian moral codes were life-destroying quest for power and is famous for the phrase: "God is dead." | 9 | |
4125374351 | Sigmund Freud | Psychologist who introduced the subconscious to explain human behavior, asserting that human beings were driven by sexual longings and childhood traumas, known as the father of psychoanalysis | 10 | |
4125374352 | Jamal al-Din Afghani | Iranian who said Sunni and Shia should put aside differences and unite against the west, leader of Pan-Islam movement | 11 | |
4125374353 | Young Ottomans | Four runner to young turks, they wanted a European - styled democratic, constitutional government, believing it was only way to overcome "backwardness" and stop European aggression | 12 | |
4125374354 | Young Turks | Group of military and civilian elites who opposed authoritarian rule in the ottoman empire, wanted a completely secular law code, and supported continuing modernization based on European achievements | 13 |