Unit 5 Revolutions Flashcards
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Abolition movement 5.1
Def: a movement to end slavery
LO2: life liberty and property supported this movement and then people became fearful of slave revolts because it was successful
Empiricism 5.1
Def: knowledge is obtained from observation
LO1: this happened in the scientific revolution where people relied on what they learned through experiments rather than what the church told them
Enlightenment 5.1
Def: the use of scientific methods instead of knowledge told by the church
LO1: People began to question what they had been told to believe contributing to the Atlantic revolution
Suffrage movement (include Wollstonecraft and Seneca Falls) 5.1
Def: a movement in which women gained equality
LO2: Locke suggested that people are born with natural rights helping facilitate this movement
American Revolution (include leaders, events, and documents) 5.2
Def: The american colonies decision to fight and become independent from Great Britain
LO3: they wanted independence because Britain was in dept and taxing the colonies
Bolivar Revolutions (include leaders, events, and documents) 5.2
Def: a revolution led by Simon Bolivar between portugal and spain ending in the separation of colonies instead of unifying them which was the initial intent.
LO3: This revolution, like many others, was inspired by the success of the american revolution
Classical Liberalism (include John Stuart Mill) 5.2
Def: the philosophy of John Locke advocating individual rights, liberties, and limited government power.
LO3: John Lockes ideas protected individual rights and wanted limited power in the government.
French Revolution (include leaders, events, and documents) 5.2
Def: A rebelion including the Tennis Court Oath which wanted power to be taken from the king because he was an unfit ruler
LO3: This revolution gave power to the bourgeoisie instead of the nobles
Haitian Revolution (include leaders, events, and documents) 5.2
Def: A slave revolt led by toussaint louverture
LO3: Led to people being afraid of slave revolts because their slave revolt was successful. also led to debt because slaves no longer labored and grew coffee and sugar
Nationalism (include German, Italian, and Argentinian) 5.2
Def: a strong feeling of pride in ones country
LO3: it led to the desire to form independent nations because they were prideful and wanted to leave behind feudalism
Causes of Industrialization 5.3
Def: inventions and scientific revolutions caused this
LO4: the closing of public land and factories to work in the cities caused urbanization
Factory system 5.3
Def: a system to mass produce goods in one location by people with little to no skills.
LO4: The invention of interchangeable parts aided the factory systems and only later did labor unions bring up the danger and unfairness in the workplace.
Industrialization 5.4
Def: the use of industries to produce goods
LO5: the enclosure of public lands contributed to this development.
Fossil Fuels Revolution 5.5
Def: the use of coal, oil, and gas in combustion and steam engines instead of wood.
LO6: this revolution increased the production of goods and energy available
Industrial Communication 5.5
Def: the way of communicating through new, fast, inventions
LO6: This was used on railroads, steamships, and telegraph for long distances.
Internal Combustion Engine 5.5
Def: A machine that used burnt gasoline or oil which powered railroads, ships, and factories to facilitate the distribution of goods
LO6: this aided in the distance of communication and trade of people and goods to other places.
Second Industrial Revolution 5.5
Def: advancements in steel production and the use of fossil fuels as power as more industrial machines were being built
LO6: cotton clothing was being mass produced through machinery making it cheaper
Steam engine 5.5
Def: James Watts development in transportation to use steam to power machines
LO6: Factories no longer had to be located near rivers which used to be used to run machines
Meiji Restoration 5.6
Def: he aided int he modernizing and westernizing of Japan through a time of political and social unrest.
LO7: The destruction of the tokugawa shogunate influenced the being of an internal power through industrialization, centralization, and imperialism.
Muhammad Ali 5.6
Def: This person takes control and ends Mamluk rule. He was named viceroy (ruler) but still technically under Ottoman rule. He industrialized Egypt, wanted to nationalize cotton industry to compete and sell to europeans, then went bankrupt to building Suez Canal
LO7: Egypts industrialization was due to Muhammas Ali
Capitalism (include Adam Smith) 5.7
Def: the people control the economic industries instead of the government
LO8: Adam Smiths writings of the wealth of nations contributed to the development of their economic system
Stock Market 5.7
Def: the buying and selling of shares in a company
LO8: the British east india company was an example of this in which the government was not as involved and this was companies owned by many individuals
Transnational Business (include United Fruit Company and HSBC) 5.7
Def: businesses that were on a global scale through transportation and trade.
LO8:
Communism (must include founder) 5.8
Def: Karl Marx believed that capitalism would lead to poverty because the government is in control over everything
LO9: political ideas were formed after the slavery revolts and the idea that power was given by the people and can be taken away
