World History ch.23 vocabAmerican Revolution: rebellion of the British American Atlantic seaboard colonies; ended with the formation of the independent United States.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 rebellion of the British American Atlantic seaboard colonies; ended with the formation of the independent United States. | American Revolution |
| overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy through a revolution beginning in 1789; created a republic and eventually ended with Napoleon's French Empire; the source of many liberal movements and constitutions in Europe. | French Revolution |
| adopted during the French Revolution; proclaimed the equality of French citizens; became a source document for later liberal movements. | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen |
| met in 1815 after the defeat of France to restore the European balance of power. | Congress of Vienna |
| second revolution against the Bourbon dynasty; a liberal movement which created a bourgeois government under a moderate monarchy. | French Revolution of 1830 |
| produced Belgian independence from the Dutch; established a constitutional monarchy. | Belgian Revolution of 1830 |
| intensification of all of the processes of production at a single site during the Industrial Revolution; involved greater organization of labor and increased discipline | Factory system |
| overthrew the French monarchy established in 1830; briefly established the second French Republic. | French Revolution of 1848 |
| British politician; granted the vote to working-class males in 1867; an example of conservative politicians keeping stability through reform. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| architect of Italian unification in 1858; created a constitutional Italian monarchy under the King of Piedmont. | Camillo di Cavour |
| conservative prime minister of Prussia; architect of German unification under the Prussian king in 1871; utilized liberal reforms to maintain stability. | Otto von Bismarck |
| fought to prevent secession of the southern states; the first war to incorporate the products and techniques of the Industrial Revolution; resulted in the abolition of slavery and the reunification of the United States. | American Civil War (1861-1865) |
| sought legal and economic gains for women, among them equal access to professions and higher education; came to concentrate on the right to vote; won initial support from middle-class women. | Feminist movements |
| biologist who developed the theory of evolution of the species; argued that all living forms evolved through the successful ability to adapt in a struggle for survival. | Charles Darwin |
| formulated mathematical theories to explain the behavior of planetary motion and the movement of electrical particles; about 1900 issued the theory of relativity. | Albert Einstein |
| historical argument that the development of the United States was largely individualistic and that contact with Europe was incidental to American formation. | American exceptionalism |
| movements to create independent states and reunite ethnic groups in the Balkans; provoked crises within the European alliance system that ended with the outbreak of World War I. | Balkan nationalism |
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