Unit 5 Flashcards
Revolutions (1750-1900)
Enlightenment philosophies
empiricist approach
natural rights
social contract
Nationalism
women’s suffrage
abolition of slavery
end of serfdom
feminism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Olympe de Gouge
Seneca Falls Conference (1848)
liberalism
American Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Latin American independence movements
American Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Bolivars “Letter from Jamaica”
Propaganda Movement in the Philippines
Maori nationalism and the New Zealand wars in New Zealand
Puerto Rico writings of Lola Rodriguez de Tió
German and Italian unifications
Balkan nationalism
Ottomanism
causes of the Industrial Revolution
proximity to waterways (access to river and canals), geographical distribution of coal, iron, and timber, urbanization, improved agricultural productivity, access to foreign resources, accumulation of capital
factory system
specialization of labor
steam-powered industrial production
Decline of Middle Eastern and Asian share in global manufacturing
shipbuilding India and Southeast Asia, iron works in India, and textile production in India and Egypt
steam engines
internal combustion engine
“second industrial revolution”
led to new methods in the production of steel, chemicals, electricity, and precision machinery during the second half of the 19th century
exploration, development, and communication made possible in interior regions globally, which leads to increased trade and migration
railroads, steamships, telegraph
state-sponsored visions of industrialization
Muhammad Ali’s development of a cotton textile industry in Egypt
Meiji Era
European countries abandon mercantilism and adopt
free trade policies
adopt free trade policies in response to
growing acceptance of Adam Smith’s theories of laissez-faire capitalism and free markets
transnational businesses
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Unilever based in England and the Netherlands and operating in British West Africa and the Belgian Congo
new financial instruments
stock market, limited-liability corporations (LLCs)
the development of industrial capitalism led to
increased standard of living for some, and to continued improvement in manufacturing methods that increased the availability, affordability, and variety of consumer goods
labor unions
in industrialized states, many workers organized themselves into labor unions to improve working conditions, limit hours, and gain higher wages
Karl Marx
socialism
communism
new social classes
middle class and industrial working class
While women and often children in working class families typically held wage-earning jobs to supplement their families’ income,
middle-class women who did not have the same economic demands to satisfy were increasingly limited to roles in the household or roles focused on child development
urbanization effects
pollution, poverty, increased crime, public health crises, shortages, and insufficient infrastructure to accommodate urban growth