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abraham lincoln: in 1860 he was elected president of the US. he headed the newly formed REpublican party, which had pledged to prevent the spread of slavery into th eterritories.
alessandro volta: in 1800 an Italian built the first battery, a device that provided a steady current of electricity.
alexander graham bell: american inventor of the telephone.
alexander II: in 1861 he issued the emancipation edict, which freed all serfs in russia. he also introduced other liberal reform sbut had a difficult time satisfying the desires of the conservatives, liberals, and radicals. he was assassinated by a bomb attack by the people's will in 1881, a radical group that used terrorism to accomplsiht heir goals.
autocrat: a ruler who holds absolute power.
balkan wars: in 1912 and 1913, two wars broke out between independent balkan nations. the balkan league, consisting of bulgaria, serbia, greece, and montenegro, declared war on teh ottoman empire and won. by the end of 1913, the territory of the ottom empire in europe had shrunk dramatically. war clouds gathered on the horizons of major imperial european powers.
beethoven: german composer whose music expressed a love of nature, called for liberty and aroused powerful emotion.
britains third reform bill of 1884: it gave th most agricultural workers the right to vote.
buisness cycle: economic pattern of alternating periods of prosperity and decline.
bundesrat: upper house, was a federal council, which consisted of 58 appointed members.
camillo benson di cavour: chief minister of sardinia who entered into a secret agrreement with napoleon III to plan a war against austria.
cartel: by 1900 a number of corporations in germany had combined to control entire industries. a cartel might own coal and iron mines, steel mills, and factories that used steel to build machines.
charles cornwallis: governor-general of the british east india company in india.
charles darwin: british biologist who developed the theory of natural selection to describe evolution.
charles goodyear: an american inventor discoevered in 1839 by mixing sulfur and rubber in a process called vulcanizing he couuld 'cure' rubber na dmake it more elastic and usable.
charles townshend: by means of repeated experiments, he learned that alternating different kinds of crops wouuld preserve soil fertility. this system called crop rotation, has become a basic principle of modern farming.
chartists: reformers who wanted changes like universal male suffrag; the secret ballot; and payment for membes of Parliament, so that even workingmen could afford to enter politics. this group supported a document called the people's charter.
christabel pankhurst: along wtih her mother, she led the women's movement for the right to vote in great britain. the suffrages finally managed to get a bill passed in 1928.
coalition: political groups organized in support of a common cause.
colelctive bargaining: process of negotiation between union and management representatives to agree on wages, hours, and working conditions.
confucianism: established in china by the ming dynasty, this philosophy divided society into four classes. firs tht escholars gentry followd by the peasants and then the artisans, and finally at the bottom were the merchants.
corporation: business ofganization in which individuals by shares of stock, elect directors to decide policies and hire managers, and receive dividends according to the number of shares they own.
Creole: write person who is born in the latin american colonies.
crimean war: france defeated russia in a war that lasted 2 years. it has become known s the most unnecessary war in hisory. the only positive thing that happened was that modern field hospitals to care for the wunded came into use, and florence nightingale established professional nursing of the wounded.
danish war: in 1864 after three months of fighting denmark surrendered to prussia and austria. they were forced to give up two duchies, prussia wouuld administer schleswig and austria would administer holstein.
depression: lowest point in the business cycle.
division of labor: division of the manufacturing process into a series of separate tasks, which each task assigned to a different worker or group of workers.
dreyfus affair: this case showed the world that anti-semitism existed in france. captain alfred dreyfus, a jewish officer, was falsely convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for betraying his country by giving secrets to germany. widespread cynicism about the third republic of france came baout.
dual monarchy: after austria's defeat by prussia in 1866, hungarians demanded more freedom. austria responded in 1867 by forming this monarchy, also called the austria-hungary, in which hungarians shared power with austrians.
durham report: as a direct result of report submitted to parliament by lord durham in 1839, parliament granted canada self-government in 1848.
edmund cartwright: in 1785, an englihs minister met the need for a faster weaving process which his invention of a power loom, a machine powered by water and capable of producing as much cloth as 200 handlooms.
eli whitney: in 1793 he invented a machine taht could separate the seed fom the cotton fiber nd as a result allowed the souther n US the ability to meet the british demand for cotton. this invention perpetuated slavery in the US.
elizabeth cady stanton: women's rights advocate who organized the senega falls convention.
evolution: theory that plant and animal life developed from common ancestors over millions of years.
expansion of slavery: the main issue dividing the sections in the US.
extraterritoriality: exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country in which they live or do business.
franco-prussian war: this war was instigated by otto von bismarck in 1870, the french declared war on prussia due to the Ems telegram but were defeated in a few months. Bismarck's objetive of uniting the german states was accomplished, and even before signing the peace agreement a more important even took place which was a proclamation declaring the formation of the german empire, which included all german states except austria.
free enterprise: principle that every person shoul dbe free to go into any business and to operate it fro his or her greater advantage.
free trade: belief that government should not restrict or interfere in international trade.
genetics: study of how inborn characteristics are passed on.
giuseppe gariblaide: he recruited the army of 1100 soldiers, they were called the red shirts. with this army he invaded and took Sicily, he then crossed tot he mainland and seiezd naples, the capital city. he became a national and international hero.
giuseppe mazzini: in 1831 he called for all italian patriots to join a new movement, known as the young italy movement, this movement wanted to establish a republic in italy.
guglielmo marconi: italian inventor of the wireless telegraphy.
Hacienda: Spanish colonists formed large, self-sufficient farming estates.
home rule: self governemnt
impressionist: artist whose paintings portrayed scenes as they might be seen in a quick glance.
ivan pavlov: russian biologist who discovered the conditioned reflex.
james fenimore cooper: american writer of adventure stories that idealized the american indian and the frontier.
james hargreaves: a poor english weaver, came up with a machine in the 1760's that he named the spinning 'jenny'. this machine could produce eight times as much thread as a single spinning wheel.
james monroe: american president who declared the US's opposition to European interference in the Western Hemisphere.
james watt: in teh 1760's a scottish instrument maker and engineer invented many improvements to the newcomen engine and by 1769 patented the modern steam engine. as a result of his invention, steam replaced water as industry's major power source.
john dalton: english chemist who devised a method for 'weighing' atoms
junk: long, solid ship built by the early chinese.
junkers: a class of aristocratic landowners in the newly unified germany. they pushed for the removal of tarrifs inside of germany.
kaiser: title of the ruler of the german empire.
kulturkamph: bismarck's anti-catholic programs in which germany passed strict laws to control catholic clerty and catholic schoools. the laws expelled jesuits, forbae political expression from the pulpit, and required that all catholic clergy be germans who had been educated in german schools.
liberalism: political movement whose followers believed that representative government ought to protect individual freedoms
louis philippe: 'citizen king' of france who favored measures that benefited the middle class.
Mark Twain: American regionalist writer whose novels include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
matthew perry: commander of US naval force sent to Japan to negotiate a commercial treaty
mestizo: latin american of american indian and european background.
monopoly: complete control of the production or sale of a good or service by a single firm.
mulatto: latin american of african and european ancestry.
nadir shah: ruler whose military conquests extended persia's boundaires and who destroyed mughal power in india.
napoleon III: the newphew of napoleon banaparte became the king of france by the vote of the people, he tried to quiet discontent at home by winning glory for france abroad.
naturalist: writer whose work protrayed life in its less attractive but real form.
northwest ordinance: it provided for an orderly expansion of the US. it stated that people who lived in territories would have rights equal to those who lived in the original 13 states.
oda nobunaga: japanese overlord who ended the ashikaga shogunate.
otto von bismarck: head of the prussian governemnt, he decided that war with france would help achieve german unification under prussian leadership. to this end, bismarck made a series of clever diplomatic aneuvers that insulted the french. in 1870 france declared war on prussia just as bismarck had hoped that they would.
ottoman empire: this empire expanded during the reign of Suleyman the magnificent but after his death in 1566 it began to decline because of its loss of control over the silk and spice trade.
pan-slavim: the union of all slavic peoples under russian leadership.
pasteurization: process of heating liquids to kill bacteria.
peninsular: whit person in Latin america who was born in spain or prtugal.
philology: study of the history of literature and language.
pogrom: massacres of jews in czarist russia. this policy came after alexander Ii was killed and was part of intensive repression by alexander III and ncholas iI. they revived and intensified russification and labeled liberal goal such as 'senseless dreams.'
psychoanalysis: process of revealing and analyzing the unconscious.
quantum theory: theory that energy can be released only in definite 'packages'
queue: the unified manchurian tribes became known as the Manchu and in 1644 they captuered Beijing and established the quing dyansty. the manchu forced the chinese men to wear their hair in a single braid or tail. this distinguished the chinese from the manchu.
radioactivity: process by which atoms of certain elements disintegrate and release energy.
reichstag: the legislative assembly, made up fhe german ligislature's lower house. it's nearly 400 membes were elected by universal male suffrage.
risorgimento: the italian nationalistic movement, which its goal of liberation and unification. secret societies had to form because nationalists could not support their cause openly. this term is the italian word for 'resurgence'.
romanticism: artistic style that glorified emotion and instinct.
russian revolution: in 1905, russia lost a war to the newly industrialied japanese, this exposed the weakness of nicholas Ii and his corrupt governemtn. when the czar's soldiers shot unarmed strikers on bloody sunday, they triggered the revolution nof 1905. violence broke out in the streets and there were mutinies in the army and navy. in order to calm the crisis, nicholas yielded to the pressure and issued a decree called the October Manifesto, which promised individual liberties nad provided fo the election of a parliament called the duma.
sam morse: he invented the telegraph, a system which could send an electircal current over a wire to a machine at the other end that clicked wtih each impulse. those clicks were made into a code of dots and dashes that coulud be translated into letters of the alphabet.
savifid dynasty: persian society flourished under the rule of Shah Abbas I. The Safavids followed the Shi'ah element of Islam, and they ruthlessly forced Shi'ism upon the Persian population as the state religion.
sectionalism: three distinct areas developed in the US and their rivalry eventually led to the civil war. the noth adn south lost more tan 600,000 lives
sepoys: native indian troops trained and led into battle by the british.
seven week war: in 1866 bismarck provoked austria into declaring war on prussia, and then in very efficient manne prussia, with the use of new technology, shocked the world by quickly defeating austria in seven weeks.
seven years war: it ended colonial competition in india between great britain and france.
sigmund freud: austrian physician who developed the concept of the unconscious as a determining factor in behavior.
Simon Bolivar: Nicknamed the Liberator, led revolutions against the Spanish in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
sir alexander fleming: british discoverer of penicillin.
sir robert peel: british politician who organized a permanent police force in london.
sir walter scott: scottish novelist whose Ivanhoe reflected the days of knighthood.
social democratic party (SDP): most of the membes of this socialist party came from the ranks of urban workers. Bismarck at frist trid to weaken them with a campaign of repression but hwne thhat failed he trie da new approcahc. he decided to grant many of the reforms ths socialists proposed. germany thus adopted a pioneering program of governemtn directed social programs.
special theory of relativity: theory that motion can be measured only relativ to some particular observer.
suffrage: the right to vote.
taiping rebellion: a rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan lasted from 1850 to 1864 and caused terrible destruction in southern china. The taiping rebellion seriously weakened bot hte qing dynasty and china as a whole.
tchaikovsky: russian composer whose music was often built around stories and developed nationalistic themes.
terrorism: bombings and assassinations of high officials by political groups.
thomas edison: american inventor who developed an improved light bulb and a central powerhouse and a transmission system for electiricy.
tokugawa ieyasu: japanese overlord who established a shogunate headed by his family for more than 250 years.
toussaint-louverture: he was a freed slave, who led the only successful revolution led by slaves anywhere in teh world. Saint Domingue proclaimed its independance under the ancient name of Haiti.
Treaty of Kanagawa: in 1854 Japanese isolation ended when their ports were opened for trade wtih America and within two years with Great Britain, Russia and the Netherlands.
treaty of nanjing: at hte concllusion of the oppium war in 1842, china was forced to give britain the islan dof hong kong. 150 years later china reclaimed during the summer of 1997.
verdi: italian operatic composer whose music includes Othello, Aida, and other works that reflected his nationalistic beliefs.
victor emmanuel II: italy was unitd in 1861 when the people voted overwhelmingly for national unity under the king of the kingdom of sardinia. unification was furthered when italy gained venetia in the seven week's war of 1866. in 1870 the citizens of rome voted for union with italy, and later that year rome was proclaimed the capital of the kingdom of italy. who was the king?
walter camp: american who adapted rugby into an early form of football.
white australia policy: after a flood of immigrats entered the country in the mid 1800's, laws were passed to allow only whites to immigrate. ideas of racial superiority also led to brutal violence against native peoples. this antagonized many nations, particularly those in asia.
white lotus society: in 1796 membes of this society led chinese peasants in a rebellion against hte qing dynasty becuase of their discontent with increased taxes and decreased services.
wilbur and orville wright: first people to fly a powered airplane in sustained, controlled flight.
wilhelm rontgen: german physicist who discovered x rays.
william gladstone: britihs prime minister and leader of the liberal party responsible for many reforms.
womens suffrage: new zealand became the first country in the world to adopt voting rights for women in 1893.
zollverein: a customs union which included most of the german states, except, most notably, austria. the german states adopted uniform systems of weights, measures, and currency. it paved the way for later political unity.