History chapter 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 James Hargreaves | invented the "Spinning Jenny" |
| James Watt | invented the steam engine |
| spinning wheel | first landmark of the industrial revolution |
| George Stephenson | made the North Star Model locomotive |
| North Star Model locomotive | results in the railroad |
| Crystal Palace | symbolic landmark for the completion of the Industrial Revolution |
| discovery of the laws | Enlightenment was about the _______. |
| John Locke | argues the state of nature or natural liberty |
| Montesquieu | checks and balances |
| Montesquieu | government in 3 parts |
| Montesquieu | individual liberty by legal institutions |
| Voltaire | claimed God has no will |
| Roseau | about civil liberty |
| Roseau | said "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains" |
| Adam Smith | about economic liberty |
| Adam Smith | Writes "The Wealth of Nations" |
| Adam Smith | the "Father of Economics" |
| Mercantilism | trade as a source of wealth |
| John Stuart Mill | writes "On Liberty" |
| John Stuart Mill | Representative legislation/ minority |
| John Stuart Mill | women's right to vote |
| Das Kapital | profit making is the slave of money and free competition results in lower wages and unemployment |
| Private property | Marx thought was a parasitic capitalist class |
| "proletariat" | working class |
| Origin of Species | 4 ideas: organic evolution, struggle for existence (food), survival of the fittest, natural selection |
| Charles Darwin | wrote the Descent of Man |
| Social Darwinism | "white man's burden" and provided theoretical foundations of Western Imperialism |
| French Revolution | clearly defined modern democracy idea |
| French Revolution | clearly said private property is an "inviolable and sacred right" |
| Muslims | believe in one god |
| Hindus | believe in many gods |
| French East India company | have top-down approach |
| Top-down Approach | befriend Mughal state |
| Bottom-up Approach | befriend Hindu states |
| Robert Clive | person associated with "Black hole of Calcutta" |
| Battle of Plassey | battle where British bribe the sepoy general to win |
| Company Rule | Agent system where Mughal king "hires" Britain to collect taxes, etc. |
| Aborted Modernization | Britain is blamed for India's failure to be able to modernize |
| Orientalists | pro how Indian education is without Britain |
| Anglicists | pro British help regarding Indian education |
| Sati | widow burning |
| Industrial Capitalism | motive behind white man's burden |
| Henry Stanley | gets entire Congo valley for King Leopold II |
| Berlin International Conference | where everyone agreese to recognize Congo as territory |
| Effective occupation | have to show you can control land |
| Notice of Intent | Have to let rest of European powers know you want land |
| Dred Scott Decision | decided descendants of slaves are not citizens and owners can reclaim runaway slaves |
| 13th amendment | prohibits slavery |
| 14th amendment | grants citizenship to former slaves |
| 15th amendment | said former slaves have teh right to vote |
| Andrew Carnegie | iron and steel industry |
| John D Rockefeller | petroleum |
| J.P. Morgan | finance |
| Vanderbilt | transcontinental railroad |
| Thomas Edison | electric engineering |
| Creole | native born/ wealthy land owners |
| Peninsular | Iberian born/ officials, officers, and businessmen |
| Bolivar | associated with the liberation of Latin America |
| Bolivar | dictator of Grand Columbia |
| Porifiro Diaz | Mexican President who proposed the slogan "liberty, order, progress" and was president for 11 terms |
| Hang Xiuquan | organized society of God worshipers |
| Taiping rebellion | attempt at creating heavenly kingdom on earth |
| Sino- Japanese War | Japan defeats Chinese navy at Yellow Sea |
| Treaty of Shimono seki | China recognizes Korea's "independence" |
| Anti-Suogunate rebellion | proposes sonno joi ("to honor the emperor and expel the barbarians") |
| ShiShi | men of high purpose |
| Feudalism/ "Dual authorities" | emperor is figurehead, shogun rules in actuality on behalf of the emperor |
| Treaty of Kanagawa | opens 2 ports for American ships and permits American consulate |
| Hundred Days Reform | China learns western education system, adopts western military system, and promotes private sector of economy |
| opium, prostitution, bound feet | 3 "evils" |
| Emperor party | reform minded party |
| Empress party | conservative minded officials |
| Ottoman Empire | called "Gunpowder empire" |
| Janissary | military slaves |
| Devshirme | civil service slaves |
| Ulma | Islamic priests |
| Sultan | had absolute power in Ottoman empire |
| Selim II | "the drunken Sultan" |
| Non Turks | those in Ottoman empire who wanted to keep independence |
| Colonel Mustafa Kernal (Ataturk) | gains Ottoman independence by defeating Greece |
| Latin alphabet | called "The Mandate System" |
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