APWH Ch 21 - 22 Vocab
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The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History (3rd Edition)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Enlightenment | methods and questions of the Scientific Revolution to study human society |
| Ben Franklin | writer and inventor; represented the vast potential of America; Poor Richard's Almanac |
| George Washington | first president in 1787 |
| Joseph Brant | the Mohawk's loyalist leader |
| Constitutional Convention | new constitution established govn't we have now |
| Estates General | the French national legislature (traditional); consisted of the 3 estates; led to the French revolution |
| National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly; passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | Liberty, property, security & resistance to oppression" free expression of ideas, rep gov't; Jefferson helped to write it |
| Jacobins | radical republicans during the French Revolution |
| Maximilien Robespierre | laser who led the French Revolution; execution ended the Reign of Terror |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew French Directory in 1799; emperor of French in 1804; died in exile |
| gens de couleur | free men and women of color in Haiti |
| Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture | leader of the Haitian revolution; freed the slaves and gained independence for Haiti |
| Congress of Vienna | established a "Holy Alliance" of Aust., Russia, Prussia, Britain met to restore order in Europe, especially in France. "Roll back the clock" |
| Revolutions of 1848 | Workers overthrow Louis Philippe, est. French Republic (reforms) |
| Industrial Revolution | transformation of the economy, environment, and living conditions; resulted because of steam engines, mechanization, and innovations in transportation and communication |
| mass production | division of labor |
| Josiah Wedgwood | English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods |
| division of labor | manufacturing technique that breaks down a craft into many simple and repetitive tasks |
| mechanization | reduce costs with labor-saving machinery |
| Richard Arkwright | English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the early IR |
| Crystal Palace | building in Hyde Park, London for Great Exhibition of 1851; made of iron and glass; symbol of industrial age |
| steam engine | turns energy reeled by buying fuel into motion |
| James Watt | improved the steam engine; "watt" electrical measurement named after him |
| electric telegraph | device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire; replaced telegraph systems that used visual signals |
| business cycles | recurrent swings from economic hard times, to recovery and growth, back to hard times (repetition) |
| laissez faire | idea that government should refrain from interfering in economic affairs |
| mercantilism | European government policies designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland country |
| positivism | scientific method can be used to solve social problems |
| utopian socialism | hope to create humane alternatives to industrial capitalism by building self sustaining communities whose inhabitants would work cooperatively |
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