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Period 5 Acronym

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R.A.S.I.N.G and ING= Revolutuons, Abolition, Industrialization, Social darwinism and Spheres of Influence, Imperialism, nationalism, Global Migrations, Qig

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Declaration of Independence

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doc. modeled after politica philosophies of LOCKE; altered natural rights identified by John Locke to include, “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”

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Self-Strengthening Movement

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A late 19th centruy movement in which the Chinese MODERNIZED their army and encouraged Western investment in factories ad railways

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Romanticism

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Literary and artistic movement in the 19th century Europe; emphasize emotion over reason

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Queu

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Long ponytail worn by Chinese men (forced) to distinguish them from Manchus

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Domestic System

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manufacturing method in which stages of process are carried out in provate home rather than in a factory setting

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Maoris

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A member of the Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 CE

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Declaration of Rights of Man and of the male Citizens

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Satement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly dyring the French Rev

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declaration of the Rights of Women and of the Female citizens

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A statement on the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of Rights of Man

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Communism

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economiv system in which the state controls all means of production

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Liberalism

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Enlightenment philosophy that favored civil rightsprotection of private property, and the representative government

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Guano

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Bird droppings used a sfertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late 19th Century

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Suez Canal

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Canal constructed by Egypt across the Isthmus of Suez in 1869

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Code Napoleon (Napoleonic Code)

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Collection of laws that standardized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Spanish American War

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Conflict between the US and Spain that began the rise of the US as a world power. Spanih Civil War= A conflict from 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of a facist dictator in Spain. Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco’s forces bacled by Germany and Italy, Soviet Union supported opposing republican forces (1898)

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Economic Imperialism

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Control of a contry;s economy by the businesses of another nation

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Revolutions of 1848

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Deomcratic and nationalistic revolutions, most=unsuccessful, swept though Europe

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Spheres of Influence

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Divisions of a country in which particular foreign nations enjoy economic privaleges

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Jacobins

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Extreme radicals during the French rev

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Theory of Relativity

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Idea which argues that time and space are relative to one another

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Theory of Natural Selection

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Idea, first proposedb

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Bourgeoise

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In France, class of merchants and artisans who were members of the 3rd Estate and initiators of the french revolution; in Marxism, refers to factory owners

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Proletariat

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In Marxist thepry, class of workers in an industrail society

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Conservatism

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In 19th C Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches

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Factors of Production

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Land, Labor, Capital,Entrepreneurship, which existed in Britain and allowed it to lead in the Industrial rev

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Zaibatsu

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Large industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late 19th century

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Conscription

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Military draft

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Tanzimat Reforms

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19th C. reforms by Ottoman rulers designed to make govt. and military more efficient

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Monroe Doctrine

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Policiy issued by the US in which it decided that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers

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Indian National Congress

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Political party that became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement

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Congress of Vienna

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Restorted legitimate monarchs to the thrones of Europe and to create a balance of power

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Boxer Rebellion

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Revolt against foreign residents of China

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Sepoy Rebellion

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Revolt of Indian soilders against the British; caued by military practice in violation of the Muslim and Hindu faiths (1857)

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Natural Rights

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Rights that belong to every person and that no governent may take away

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Great Trek

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Slaveholding Boers, who in 1834, left the Cape Colony and moved to the interior of Africa

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Young Turks

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Society founded in 1889 in the Ottoman empire; its goal was to restore the constitution of 1876 and to reform the empire

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Boers

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South Africans of Dutch descent

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Sepoys

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South Asian soldiers who served in the British army in India

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Revolution of 1905

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Strikes by urban workers and peasants in Russia; prompted by shortages of food and by Russia’s loss to Japan in 1905

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Entrepreneurship

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ability to combine the factors of land, labor, nd capital to create factory production

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Social Darwinism

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The application of Darwin’s philosophy of natural selection to human society

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Separation of Powers

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Division of powers amoung the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government

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Estates

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the divisions of society in pre-revolutionary France

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Imperialism

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the establishment of colonial empires

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Enclosure Movement

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The fencing of pature land in England beginning prior to the United States

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Bill of Rights

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First 10 Amendments to the constitution of the united states

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Qing Dynasty

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the Manchurian invaders who ruled China from 1644 to early 1900s

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Berlin Conference

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The meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa amongst them

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Capital

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Money and equippment needed to engage in industrialization

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Feminism

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the movement to achieve women’s rights

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Reign of Terror

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The period of the most extreme violence of the French Rev

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Manifest Destiny

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The policy of the US that led to its expanision from the Atlantic to the Pacific

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Meiji Restoration

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The restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that begun a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate

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Extreterritoriality

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th right of foreigners to liver under the laws of their home country rather than those of the host country

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Duma

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The Russian Parliament

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Raj

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The Sanskrit name for the British govt. in India

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Grand Columbia

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The temporary union of the northern portion of South America after the independence movements led by Simon Bolivar

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Estates General

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the traditional legislative body of France

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Industrial revolution

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The transition between domestic system of manufacturing and mechanization of production in a factory setting

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Treaty of Nanking

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Treaty ending the Opium War that ceced Hong Kong to the British (1842)

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pogrom

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Violence against Jews in tsarist Russia

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Opium War

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War between UK and China began with the Qing dynsaty’s refusla to allow the continued opium importation into China; UK victory resulted in the Treaty of Nanking (1839-1842)

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Russo-Japanese War

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War between Russia and Japan over Manchurian territory; reulted in the naval defeat of Russia by the Japanese navy

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Sino-Japanese War

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War between Japan and China, in 1895, over the control of Korea

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Boer War

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War between the UK and Dutch over Dutch indepedence in South Africa; resulted in British victory (1899-1902)

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Radicalism

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Western Europe political philosophy during the 19th century; advocated democracy and reforms favoring lower classes

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