Unit 6 Terms

Question 1

Boston Tea Party

Answer 1

a raid on three British ships Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists disguised as Indians threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as an act of protest against British taxes on tea

Question 2

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 2

an oath vowing not to separate and reassemble wherever circumstances require until the constitution of the kingdom is established

Question 3

inflation

Answer 3

a general and progressive increase in prices

Question 4

reign of terror

Answer 4

a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed

Question 5

people of color

Answer 5

a person who is not white or of European Parentage

Question 6

industrialization

Answer 6

a momentous shift from a rural agrarian economy to an urban manufacturing economy

Question 7

proletariat

Answer 7

a large class of landless laborers, many of whom eventually moved to cities to work in urban factories

Question 8

vaccination

Answer 8

immunize people against diseases such as smallpox

Question 9

conservatives

Answer 9

supporters of the old order, determine to retain past structures and ways
Ideologies- system of thoughts intended to explain and transform society in accordance with certain political, social, and cultural ideas

Question 10

liberalism

Answer 10

the concept of liberty and it’s political values, arising out of the enlightenment and Atlantic revolution

Question 11

socialism

Answer 11

the antithesis of liberalism were socialists who stressed equality, asserting that freedom meant little to those who had no means to enjoy it and advocating more equability

Question 12

nationalism

Answer 12

an intense devotion to one’s own cultural-linguistic group and to its embodiment in a unified dependent state

Question 13

romanticism

Answer 13

reactions against the enlightenment where there was a cultural movement pervading Western art, literature, poetry, and music

Question 14

women’s suffrage

Answer 14

a movement that had been working for years to gain women the right to vote, were losing patience with legislative process

Question 15

imperialism

Answer 15

using military force or the threat or a force to establish colonies in threat or a force to establish colonies in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia

Question 16

imperialism

Answer 16

using military force or the threat or a force to establish colonies in threat or a force to establish colonies in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia

Question 17

jingoism

Answer 17

extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy

Question 18

westernization

Answer 18

the adoption of non-western nations of Western style industries, technologies, institutions, and ideologies

Question 19

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 19

institutionalized racial discrimination in the southern states

Question 20

opium

Answer 20

an addictive narcotic drug made from poppies which produced a sense of euphoria when ingested or smoked

Question 21

Taiping Rebellion

Answer 21

a vast uprising

Question 22

sepoys

Answer 22

Indian soldiers who were trained and commanded by the British where the company’s rule was directed

Question 23

sati

Answer 23

a custom by which upper-caste Hindu widows were sometimes burnt to death of their husband’s funeral pyre

Question 24

triple intervention

Answer 24

Russia, Germany, and France intervened Japan when they were victorious against China and pressured to give back what they won

Question 25

open door policy

Answer 25

issuing a note to each imperial power calling for free and equal trade with China and for the preservation of China’s territorial integrity