AP World History Strayer Chapter 17 Vocabulary Flashcards

9056310725	Steam Engine	Definition: External combustion engine where heat is used to raise steam. Significance: Allowed increased productivity and made Industrial Revolution possible (limitless source of power).	0
9056310726	Indian Cotton Textiles	Definition: Well made, inexpensive cotton textiles from India. Significance: Catalyst for British textile Industry to industrialize.	1
9056310727	Middle-class values	Definition: Frowned upon heavy drinking and women were fond of fashion, Education necessary. Significance: Characterised middle-class culture and respectability.	2
9056310728	Lower Middle-class	Definition: Belief in fate, fortune, and good luck, dependent on peers rather than an individual. Significance: Service jobs that were more than 20% of Britain's population and gave women opportunity to work.	3
9056310729	Ellen Johnston	Definition: Working class female who labored and wanted to become a poet. Significance: Insight to women's lives in the 1800s for the middle class.	4
9056310730	Karl Marx	Definition: Founder of modern communism. Significance: Conclusion of capitalism as unstable and doomed, thus creating socialist and communist views. It would end the conflict of rich and poor.	5
9056310731	Labour Party	Definition: Political party formed in Great Britain focusing on multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance, protecting social welfare. Significance: Provided alternative to Marxism.	6
9056310732	Socialism in the United States	Definition: Socialist party grew in the 1900's, critiquing the economic system of the United States urged reform and endorsed small scale economy. Significance: Minor political movement and gained 6% votes in the election.	7
9056310733	Progressives	Definition: Reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way the government works. Significance: Advocated reform measures to correct ills of industrialization (1750 - 1914).	8
9056310734	Russian Revolution of 1905	Definition: Spontaneous rebellion after defeating at hand of Japan 1905. Significance: It was suppressed but it forced the government to make substantial reforms.	9
9056310735	Latin America Export boom	Definition: Large scale increase in exports (raw) to industrialized countries. Significance: Benefitted middle-class and upper-class.	10
9056310736	Mexican Revolution	Definition: Bitter and bloody conflict between middle-class Mexicans who joined with peasants and workers against dictator Porfirio Diaz. Significance: Created a new, more democratic political order.	11
9056310737	Dependent Development	Definition: Theory that poor countries can still develop economically, but only in ways shaped by reliance on wealthier countries. Significance: Term used to describe Latin America's economic growth dependent on European and North American prosperity and decisions.	12
9056337654	Luddites	destroyed many new machines that were new and more effective, threatening the livelihoods of the workers. Named after a mythological Robin Hood-like figure. Some who were suspected of being this were killed. In some ways predicted the future of industrialism and the demands of workers	13
9056376484	caudillos	violent, enabled, military strongmen who achieved power as liberal and conservative factions fought in Latin America	14