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.