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45 Cards in this Set
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Enclosure Movement |
Farmers dividing up land and having clear borders on their land. |
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Division of labor |
Separating tasks for specialization. |
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Spinning Jenny |
Machine that spun cotton. |
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Steam engine |
Invention that allowed the industrial revolution to take off; new transportation. |
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Ghost acreage |
Land in the Americas being farmed by slaves where raw materials were produced en mass. |
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Thomas Newcomen |
British inventor who created the Newcomen Steam Engine. |
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Sadler Commission |
Reported on the terrible conditions of child labor in factories. |
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John Stuart Mill |
Philosopher. Author of "on liberty." Applied scientific method to non-scientific projects. |
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Karl Marx |
COMMUNIST REVOLUTION. DOWN WITH THE BOURGEOISIE! |
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Friedrich Engels |
Philosopher who helped to found Marxist theory. |
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Socialism |
Equality for the people to eliminate class division. |
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Nationalism |
Political approach focused on creating a national identity and defining it clearly. Nation above all else. |
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Liberalism |
Classic liberalism; nostalgia, belief in democracy and institutions. |
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Suez Canal |
Connects the red sea and the Mediterranean sea. Import trade route. |
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King Leopold II |
Belgian king who exploited the Congo. |
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Scramble for Africa |
Europeans run to try and colonize different parts of Africa before other European countries do. |
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Quinine |
Medicine that treats malaria. |
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East India Company |
Trading company under the British government that ran trade through India. |
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Sepoy Uprising |
A mutiny of Indian soldiers (sepoy) in the East India Company's army. |
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Manchus |
By 1680 the Manchus, under the Qing dynasty, controlled all of China. |
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Canton/Guangzhou System |
Chinese system regulating trade with Europeans; mercantilism. |
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Opium War |
There were two "opium wars" between Britain and China. The 2nd forced China to legalize opium. |
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Lin Zexu |
Official in the Qing dynasty who was instrumental in the first opium war. Strongly opposed to opium. |
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Treaty of Nanjing |
Peace treaty that ended the first opium war. Imperialism in China because it took advantage of China with nothing in return. |
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Taiping Rebellion |
Sparked other rebellions throughout China. |
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El Nino |
A weather phenomenon that changes ocean temperatures. |
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Tokugawa |
The last feudal Japanese military government. |
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Shogun |
Military dictator in Japan in the 1800s. |
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Samurai |
Military nobility in Japan. |
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Commodore Matthew Perry |
Re-established trade between Japan and the Western World. |
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Meiji Restoration |
Restored imperial rule in Japan. |
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World War I |
War between the Allied and Axis powers. |
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Triple Entente |
Russia, France, and the UK |
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Versaille Treaty |
Stupid as all get out, caused more damage by making Germany take the blame for WWI. Used to justify WWII. |
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Czar Nicholas II |
Czar of Russia. Forced to abdicate the throne in 1917. |
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1905 Revolution |
"Bloody Sunday." Massacre in St. Petersburg. |
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February Revolution |
Revolution where Czar Nicholas II is forced to adbicate. Creates an unstable government. |
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Bolsheviks |
Communist party leading the October 1917 revolution in Russia. |
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October Revolution |
The revolution that created soviet Russia. |
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Postwar Crises |
Crisis of meaning, crisis of faith, gender crises. |
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Mass Society |
Pop culture; defines the 20th century. |
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Great Depression |
Financial crisis between WWI and WWII. |
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Fascism |
Ultra-nationalism. |
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Third World |
Countries that suffered from colonization and can no longer support themselves. Exporters of raw materials. |
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Cold War |
"Peace" period with nuclear threat between Russia and the United States. |
