1750-1900 Vocab p2

Question 1

Suffrage

Answer 1

the right of voting

Question 2

Universal manhood suffrage

Answer 2

voting for all male citizens

Question 3

Universal suffrage

Answer 3

Voting for all citizens regardless of ethnicity, sex, or religion.

Question 4

Imperialism

Answer 4

Policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially

Question 5

Cultural imperialism

Answer 5

domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority

Question 6

Colonialism

Answer 6

Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power

Question 7

Extraterritoriality

Answer 7

The right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native or country and disregard the laws of the host country. In the 19th and early 20th century, European and American nationals living in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.

Question 8

Annexation

Answer 8

The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

Question 9

Social Darwinism

Answer 9

The application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies- particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.

Question 10

Sphere of influence

Answer 10

An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trade privileges; includes treaty ports- trade cities opened to foreign residents as a result of forced treaties, in treaty ports foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.

Question 11

Economic Imperialism

Answer 11

Independent but less developed nations controlled by private business interests rather than by other governments

Question 12

Cottage industries

Answer 12

Weaving, sewing, carving, and other small scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers, frequently women, are usually independent laborers using raw materials supplied to them by capitalist entrepreneurs.

Question 13

Industry

Answer 13

The process of making products by using machinery and factories

Question 14

Labor union

Answer 14

An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade, created to defend the interests of members (working conditions, wages) through strikes, or negations with employers

Question 15

laissez-faire

Answer 15

an economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws

Question 16

urbanization

Answer 16

The growth of cities and migration of people into them

Question 17

White dominions

Answer 17

Colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population, small numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease and wars of conquest

Question 18

Contested Settler Societies

Answer 18

Featured large-scale European settlement despite the existence of large, indigenous populations, generally resulted in clashes over land rights, resource control, social status, differences in culture

Question 19

Protectorate

Answer 19

A country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power

Question 20

Colony

Answer 20

A country or region governed internally by a foreign power

Question 21

Pogrom

Answer 21

An organized campaign of violence against Jewish communities in late 19th century Russia

Question 22

Millenarianism

Answer 22

Belief in a coming ideal society and especially one created by revolutionary action by a religious, social, or political group/movement

Question 23

Caudillo

Answer 23

A spanish or Latin American military dictator