AP World History Chapter 17 IDs Flashcards

9536333577	Caudillo	A military strongman who seized control of a government in 19th century Latin America	0
9536333578	Dependent Development	Term used to describe Latin America's economic growth in the 19th century, which was largely financed by foreign capital and dependent on European and North American prosperity and decisions	1
9536333579	Indian Cotton Textiles	For much of the 18th century, well-made and inexpensive cotton textiles from India flooded Western markets; the competition stimulated the British textile industry to industrialize, which led to the eventual destruction of the Indian textile market both in Europe and India	2
9536333580	Johnston, Ellen	Scottish textile worker and single mother (1835-1875) who became a published poet with a modest local repuatation	3
9536333581	Labour Party	British working class political party established in the 1890s and dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism, in time providing a viable alternative to the revolutionary emphasis of Marxism	4
9536333582	Latin American Export Boom	Large scale increase in Latin American exports (mostly raw materials and foodstuffs) to industrializing countries in the second half of the 19th century, made possible by major improvements in shipping; the boom mostly benefited the upper and middle class	5
9536333583	Lower middle class	Social stratum that developed in Britain in the 19th century and that consisted of people employed in the service sector as clerks, salespeople, secretaries, police officers, and the like; by 1900, this group comprised about 20 percent of Britain's population	6
9536333584	Marx, Karl	The most influential proponent of socialism, Marx (1818-1883) was a German expatriate in England who advocated working-class revolution as the key to creating an ideal communist future	7
9536333585	Mexican Revolution	Long, bloody war (1911-1920) in which Mexican reformers from the middle class joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the dictator Porfrio Diaz and created a new, much more democratic political order	8
9536333586	Middle-class values	Belief system typical of the middle class that developed in Britain in the 19th century, it emphasized thrift, hard work, rigid moral behavior, cleanliness, and "respectability"	9
9536333587	Russian Revolution of 1905	Spontaneous rebellion that erupted in Russia after the country's defeat at the hands of Japan in 1905; the revolution was suppressed, but it forced the government to make substantial reforms	10
9536333588	Socialism in the United States	Fairly minor political movement in the United States, at its height in 1912 gaining 6 percent of the vote for its presidential candidate	11
9536333589	Steam engine	Mechanical device in which the steam from heated water builds up pressure to drive a piston, rather than relying on human or animal muscle power; the introduction of it allowed a hitherto unimaginable increase in productivity and made the Industrial Revolution possible	12
9536333590	Progressives	reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way grovernment works, group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s.	13