MAK ch.22 The Modern World
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Napoleon Bonaparte | A young French general. Defeated rebels at home and foreign armies that threatened the new republic. He Seized power and made France into a great empire that dominated Europe. |
| Coup d'etat | The forceful overthrow of a government. |
| Klemens von Metternich | Prince of Austria that led the meeting of the Congress of Vienna. |
| Conservatism | A movement to preserve the old social order and governments. |
| Liberalism | A movement for individual rights and freedom. |
| Simon Bolivar | One of the revolutionary leaders that led independence movements across the continent. His success inspired other revolutionaries to fight for liberation. |
| Factory system | The system where machines rapidly produce large quantities of goods. |
| Laissez-faire | A "let-things-be" attitude on the part of government toward industry. |
| Socialism | A system in which businesses are either owned by the workers or controlled by the government. |
| Karl Marx | German philosopher that called workers to unite in a revolution to bring down the capitalist system. |
| Nationalism | The devotion and loyalty to one's country. |
| Nation-states | Self-governing countries made up of people with a common cultural background. |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Gathered more than 1,000 passionate followers and overthrew the government in Sicily. |
| Otto von Bismarck | Prussian prime minister that devised a plan to create a unified Germany un Prussian domination. |
| Imperialism | The control of a region or country by another country. |
| Matthew Perry | The head leader of the United States when it sent a powerful naval force to Japan to negotiate a treaty that would open Japan to America to trade. |
| Opposition | The act of resisting. |
| Conflict | An fight/argument between two opposing groups. |
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