AP World History Strayer Chapter 17 Vocabulary Flashcards

13064448569	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
13064448570	Indian Cotton Textiles	Definition: Well made, inexpensive cotton textiles from India. Significance: Catalyst for British textile Industry to industrialize.	1
13064448571	Middle-class values	Definition: Frowned upon heavy drinking and women were fond of fashion, Education necessary. Significance: Characterised middle-class culture and respectability.	2
13064448572	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
13064448573	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
13064448574	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
13064448575	Labour Party	Definition: Political party formed in Great Britain focusing on multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance, protecting social welfare. Significance: Provided alternative to Marxism.	6
13064448576	Luddites	Definition: A secret oath-based organization of English textile workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery. Significance: They believed that such machinery would diminish employment.	7
13064448577	Socialism in the United States	Definition: Socialist party grew in the 1900's, critiquing the economic system of the United States. Significance: Urged reform and endorsed small scale economy. Minor political movement and gained 6% votes in the election.	8
13064448578	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).	9
13064448579	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.	10
13064448580	Latin America Export boom	Definition: Large scale increase in exports (raw) to industrialized countries. Significance: Benefitted middle-class and upper-class.	11
13064448581	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.	12
13064448582	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.	13
13064448583	Caudillos	Definition: Military dictator Significance: Gained control of a government in 19th century Latin America after independence movements.	14