Dumas APWH Unit 5 Flashcards
Abolitionist Movement
The movement to end slavery in the Atlantic ocean and free all the slaves from Africa.
Empiricism
The theory that knowledge comes from a sense experience or observing an experience you’ve had before.
Enlightenment
ideas that started to fly around throughout the industrial revolution that suggested individualism, freedom, and changing roles.
Suffrage Movement
Ideas that came from women like Mary Wollstonecraft and the Seneca falls conference that suggested women’s rights and women’s freedoms.
American Revolution
The American revolution was inspired by the ideas of Europeans that wanted to separate from Europe and things like the declaration of independence was able to separate these two and create a sovereign nation that is now America. i
Bolivar Revolution
The Revolution in which creoles wanted to separate and be independent from Spain.
Classical Libertarism
A political ideology based on freedom of economy and limited government control.
French Revolution
Enlightenment ideas came to France and soon inspired the people to rebel against the government and demand their own rights which was also helped by the
Declaration of Rights of Man.
Haitian Revolution
The French had establish their own colony in Haiti for economic purposes, but the slaves soon took over and try to rebel against their slave masters which started the Haitian Revolution.
Nationalism
The idea that one’s nation is better than another’s in political power, economic power, or social rank.
Causes of Industrial Revolution
- Enlightenment Ideas
- New technological advances
- Factories established
Factory System
This system had workers doing individual task instead of having skilled workers come in to do the entire process themselves.
Industrialization
The increase in mechanic creation of a product.
Fossil Fuels Revolution
The Revolution in which new energy sources like gas and oil had been discovered to power machines.
Steam Engine
This engine uses coal to make steam so that is able to power machines like trains and automobiles.
Industrial Communication
Since the discovery using electricity for machines have been discovered and a man by the name of Alexander Graham Bell had the first telephone to then produce more for communication. The transcontinental Railroad also help facilitate communication through technology.
Internal Combustion Engine
The ignition and combustion occurs in the machine itself in order to create energy.
Second Industrial Revolution
A revolution in which precision machinery and electronics were created, as well as chemicals and the use of steel.
Meiji Restoration
Japan’s transition in order to become fully modernize and industrialized without making contact with other nations.
Muhammad Ali
although he was once an officer Muhammad Ali became a governor of Egypt and was able to encourage industrialization and establish schools.
Capitalism
The idea that you don’t need the government in order to sell, buy and produce, instead you were able to profit on your own.
(an idea developed by Adam Smith)
Stock Market
A market where buyers and sellers exchange equity for public corporations.
Transnational Business
Companies that are active across national borders. For example the United Fruit Company, or the Unilever Corporation between the Dutch and the British.
Communism
an economic system that promotes a society without classes and people that work according to their abilities and needs.
Labor Unions
workers that came together in order to advocate for the resulting agreements from their employers due to poor conditions and poor treatment.
Self-Strengthening Movement
The Qing dynasty’s attempt at re-centralizing China economically and politically in order to boost industrialization since they had been behind compared to other nations.
Socialism
The theory that public ownership can lead to equal production and equal roles in society.
Taiping Rebellion
A revolution in the Ching Dynasty in China over poor economic conditions with the population demanding a stronger central government.
Tanzimat Reforms
Efforts from Ottoman rulers after reacting to industrialization. These efforts include establishing more education based structures and advocating equality of men in education, government, and justice no matter identity.
Cult Of Domesticity
standards that were set in the 19th century against women that place them in the stereo typical role of a housewife.
New Social Classes
these social classes are rose from the workers that came from the industrialized factories as well as people who weren’t to pour and who weren’t to wealthy.
Urbanization
The rapid growth of establishing cities and towns.
