History test 8 Flashcards
the term for growing just enough food
subsistance farming
most critical factor of a nation
mastery of food supply
steel plow
John Deere
reaper
Cyrus Mcormick
allowed work to be done at home or private shops
Domestic System
Wages as compared to the cost of living
real wadges
large amount of people hired to work in factories
factory System
this nation began the industrial rev.
england
flying shuttle
John Kay
spinning mule
Samuel Crompton
allowed land owners to control the breeding of their animals
enclosure movement
steam engine
James Watt
cotton gin
Eli Whitney
miner’s safety lamp
Sir Humphrey Davy
steam powered locomotive
George Stephenson
steam ship
Robert Fulton
modern automobile
Ford
first transatlantic cable
Cyrus Field
electric telegraph
Samuel Morse
vaccine for small pox
Jenner
germ theory
Louis Pasteur
atomic theory
John Dalton
diesel engine
diesel
iron to steel process
Bessemer
telephone
Alexander Ghram bell
greatest inventor of all time
Thomas Edison
antiseptics for killing germs
Joseph Lister
our economic growth can be attributed to what economic system
capitalism
essay possibility
explain capitalism
owner of largest steel company in the world
Andrew Carnige
known for banking
J.P. Morgan
donating money to causes to the less fortunate
philanthropy
wrote wealth of nations
Adam Smith
how old was Victoria when she became queen
18
how much of the earth belonged to England
25%
how long did Victoria rule
34 years
victoria’s husband
Prince Albert
the right to vote
suffrage
victoria’s best known quotation
“I will be good”
Liberals were represented by who in England
William Gladstone
prince of Preachers
Charles Spurgeon
best known preacher in America during Victorian England
D.L. Moody
cricket player that surrendered to missions
C.T Stud
founded China inland mission
J. Hudson Taylor
created modern nursing profession
nightingale
negotiated treaty for trade between America and Japan
Matthew Perry
First missionary to the inside of Japan
Joseph Hardy
first Baptist missonary to go to Japan, also gave them the rickshaw
Johnathan Goble
German missionary in England known for orphanages and strong prayer life
George Muller
offered food,shelter,and preaching to young men
YMCA
founded salvation army
William booth
war in which France and the allies won but suffered many many casualties
Crimean War
the establishment of collinies to benefit an empire
imperialism
essay option
reasons for British expansion (w explanation)
negotiations between governments of nations
Diplomacy
powerful trading company that controlled India
east India company
rebellion that came of a result of westerners being insensitive to eastern culture and the Indians started a rebellion because of this
Sepoy Rebellion
translated the bible in 40 Indian dialects, also got rid of suttee in many places
William Carey
rescued young indian girls from pagan temples
Amy Carmichael
first european to cross the Sahara
Hugh Clapperton
found David Livingston and later became a missionary himself
Henry Stanley
first independant African republic
Liberia
missionary to Liberia
Collin Teauge
earliest European settlers to southern Africa (
africaners
dutch farmers
Boers
two free states after Liberia
orange free state and transval
who won the boer war
British
discovered and explored Australia
James cooke
natives of Australia
aborigines
increased the pop. of Australia
aus. gold rush
natives of new Zealand
mayoris
recognized the monarch of eng. as the ruler
British common wealth of nations
who ruled after queen Victoria
Edward VII
africa’s largest waterfall
Victoria falls
government control of the nation’s resources and finances; “the greatest happiness for the greatest number”
Socialism
Also called religious liberalism
The false teaching that the Bible is not God’s Word but stories & myths
Modernism
the “right” of the people t rebel against governments & form their own; usually leads to anarchy
Revolutionary Nationalsim
all truth can be changed or altered
relativism
who made idealism
Immanuel Kant
2 opposing views (thesis & antithesis) will logically come to a correct solution (synthesis); founded by G.W.F. Hegel
Dialect Thinking
Famous French Romanticists
Victor Hugo & Delacroix
Victor Hugo & Delacroix
Goethe & Wagner
false idea that God is not separate from nature bu nature is God
Pantheism
a European meeting to fix the political & border issues caused by the Napoleonic Wars led by Prince von Metternich (“Prince of Diplomats”)
Congress of Vienna
led several Latin America nations to independence; by 1825, most of Latin America was free from European rule
Simon Bolivar (“The Liberator”)
France deposed Louis Philippe & Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) was elected “president” (June Days Revolution)
Revolution of 1848
attempted to lead a French supported revolution in Mexico; it failed and he was executed
Archduke Maximilian of Austria
leader of the red shirts
Giuseppe Garibaldi
first king of a united Italy
Victor Immanuel II
dismissed Bismark & expanded Germany’s borders
Wilhelm II
strengthened Germany navy
Admiral von Tirpitz
sought to forcibly establish a more “democratic” system in France
Paris Commune
reconciled differences between France & Great Britain
Entente Cordial
alliance between France, Great Britain, & Russia
Triple Entente
the treaty that set new Zealand free
Treaty of Adrianople
who led prussia
Otto von Bismark
emphasized the founding of utopian (“perfect”) communities in with socialist ideas could be tried
Utopian Socialism
advocated “democratic socialism”; from each according to his ability, to each according to his need
Louis Blanc
