AP World History Flashcard Test (Revolutions) Flashcards

13541374271	Industrial Revolution	Began in Britan c. 1750 and led to a need for raw materials and markets	0
13541374272	Emancipation of Serfs and Slaves	19th century development which allowed labor to be more mobile	1
13541374273	Proletariat	The working class in factories as described by Marx	2
13541374274	Bourgeoisie	The factory owners those who controlled the means of production according to Marx	3
13541374275	French Revolution	A revolution which resulted in the excecution of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette	4
13541374276	Guillotine	A new method of execution which represented equality under the law	5
13541374277	Louis XVI	Tried and executed by French revolutionaries in the late 18th century	6
13541374278	Napoleon	Created an Empire in Europe during the early 19th century but was finally defeated in 1815	7
13541374279	American Revolution	Inspired by the Enlightenment, this is war for independence led to a republic	8
13541374280	Hatian Revolution	This was the first successful Latin American Revolution	9
13541374281	Nationalism	A sense of common identity based on culture, language, values, and geographic boundaries	10
13541374282	Democracy	A government system in which people have a say in who rules and how they rule	11
13541374283	Congress of Vienna	1815 conference which attempted to restore monarchial power in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon	12
13541374284	Simon Bolivar	Leader of the war for independence in northern South America	13
13541374285	Benito Juarez	Leader who attempted to reform Mexico in the mid 19th century	14
13541374286	Dependency Theory	Core states provide manufatured goods while periphery states provide raw materials	15
13541374287	Conference of Berlin	A late 19th c. meeting between European leaders who agreed to divide Africa so as to avoid war	16
13541374288	Coal	This fossil fuel is burned to turn water into steam for steam locomotives	17
13541374289	Indentured Servitude	A contract labor system in which workers signed up to work for an extended period of time, e.g. 7 years	18
13541374290	Adam Smith and John Stewart Mill	Economic reformers who supported ideas which encouraged less government control of the economy	19
13541374291	Panama Canal	Completed in 1914, linked the Pacific and Atlantic Oceaan	20
13541374292	Suez Canalal	Completed in 1869 in Egypt, linked the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea	21
13541374293	American Transcontinental Railroad	Completed in 1869, linked the east and west coasts of the United States	22
13541374294	Cotton	The raw material necessary in the British textile industry, from India, Egypt and Southern USA	23
13541374295	Opium Wars	Fought between the British and the Chinese 1838-1842, resulted in the opening of 5 Chinese ports	24
13541374296	Creoles	The class of people in Latin America who were of European descent but born in the Americas	25
13541374297	Mestizos	The class of mixed race, e.g. Spanish and Indian, in Latin America	26
13541374298	Boxer Rebellion	an anti-foreign uprising in China which led to the intervention of foreign powers 1900	27
13541374299	Marxism	An economic theory which predicted the end of capitalism and rise of the prletariant-led socialist system	28
13541374300	Social Darwinism	Herbert Spencer's false use of Darwin's theory to explain Western dominance based on race	29
13541374301	Muhammad Ali	The ruler of Egypt who attempted to modernize this part of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th c.	30
13541374302	Meiji Restoration	The end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the beginning of Japanese modernization	31
13541374303	Quing Dynasty	The Opium Wars and Boxer Rebellion helped bring down this dynasty in 1911	32
13541374304	Russo-Japanese War	The first victory for a non European nation over a European nation since the industrial revolution	33
13541374305	Taiping Rebellion	Civil War in China 1850-1864, Qing vs. "Christian" rebels, est. 20-30 million died	34
13541374306	Mary Wollstonecraft	English writer that argued that women are not inferior to men, "Vindication of the Rights of Women" 1792	35
13541374307	Raw Materials and Markets	Industrialized nations looked for opportunities gain control over distant lands for these	36
13541374308	The (1)"means and the (2) motives" for imperialism	1. Weapons, Trains, steamships 2. The need for raw material and markets	37
13541374309	Trans Siberian Railroad	Completed in 1916, linked western Russia to the Pacific at Vladivostok	38
13541374310	Sepoy Mutiny	1857 revolt in India by Indian/British soldiers which led to direct rule of India by the British Raj	39