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50 Cards in this Set
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Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Leader of the Haitian Revolution |
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Revolutions happen because ... |
lower classes are beginning to get tired of the people in power and their ways |
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President Monroe |
- Wrote Monroe Doctrine - ^^^ states America should be free of European influence |
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Civil War |
- April 1861-1865 - a means to end slavery |
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Reconstruction Period |
- us trying to bring slaves into everyday life - voting becomes a means of this attempt
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Subgroups in the Recon. Period |
- laborers - farmers - women - freed slaves - ethnic groups |
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Growing in cites |
mass societies |
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Goal in America |
- to be middle class or white collar; "clean" job - back then = department store job - now = department store is working class |
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Part of the Emergence of Mass Societies |
- women can vote and work outside the home |
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Historical Literature |
perpetuates the ideal that women are home bodies |
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Romanticism |
the idea that everything works out in the end |
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realism |
being more open about the things happening in everyday society |
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Albert Einstein |
Theory of relativity |
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Sigmund Freud |
Emergence of Psychoanalysis |
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Social Darwinism |
Survival of the fittest as it applies to the existence of nations |
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Colonialism is a result of |
Imperialism |
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Imperialism |
an essence of being an Emperor and having power |
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Colonialism |
- replicating your governance upon other in their native lands - being the "boss" and creating "mini me's" in other regions of the world |
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Colonialism benefits ... |
the coloinzer |
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in colonialism, colonizers ... |
- get to make the rules - colonized must conform to colonizer |
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Motives of Colonialism |
- raw materials - national/ social Darwinism - moral component =religion |
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Tactics of Colonialism |
- Economic needs; make colonized dependent on colonizer |
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Philosophy of Colonialism |
- Collaboration w/ local elites; indirect rule - dictate to colonies; direct rule - components - military - economic - religious
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Indirect Rule |
Collaboration w/ local elites by colonizer |
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Direct Rule |
Dictating to colonies by colonizer |
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British Raj ruled India by ... |
- direct rule of the East India Company - Indirect Rule through Maharajas - Colonial Reforms |
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Anti Colonialism |
- traditional resistance - natural leaders emerge who are spreading the word that there's a way to fight back. |
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Colonialism costs ... |
- Destruction of the Textile Industries - Lack of respect for Native Culture |
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Nature of Colonial Rule |
- "Education" ... elites only - Exports of raw materials considered economic developement |
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Empire building in Africa |
- decline of the slave trade - more trade in raw materials - Indirect Rule by GB - Direct Rule by France |
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Opium |
huge source of conflict in East Asia |
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GB sell to pay for |
Sell opium to pay for tea |
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Opium War |
- 1839-1842 - fight to see who controlled opium; GB or Asia - GB refused to stop manufacturing it
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GB proposes to Asia ... |
if people don't want it, they can stop buying it |
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GB accused of ... |
using opium to keep China separated |
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Taiping Rebellion |
- China revolted - peasants wanted self-rule |
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Christians in China |
- genuinely felt their religion was better - really thought they were doing God's work |
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Pu Yi |
- Last Emperor of China - he was a kids;3 yo |
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Daily life in China |
- westernized cities - decline of Confucianism - changing roles for women |
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Code the Samuraui lived by; like western Chivalry |
Bushido |
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In Japan, Emperor is |
equivalent to God
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In Japan, Shogun is |
equivalent to Emperor |
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Considertaion for Japan oncve Westerners "invited them to join the civilized world." |
Their feudal system |
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Attak on Ido harbor by GB changed what? |
The way Japan saw it's national security
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After the attack at the harbor ... |
Japan realized their security was obsolete |
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Creation that came from the evolution after the attack |
- Railroad - Economy - Market - Culture Changed as well |
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New Emperor in 1858 changed ... |
- culture - the nation's identity - Idea of the Samurai was removed |
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What happens to the Samurai after life in Japan changes |
- Samurai becomes mythology - Swords are removed - The code lives on in the hearts of the Samurai |
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Why are Samurais considered bad guys of this era? |
they are holding onto traditional ways and fighting for them to stay a live when the rest of Japan is trying to move forward |
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One way the Emperor changes in the culture of Japan in 1858 is ... |
Sent people to West to study their lives and bring that knowledge back to Japan to implement it there. |
