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protoindustrialization |
the development of where people promted an expansion of domestic manufacturing in western and in the united states |
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The political philosophy of the Enlightenment |
Enlightenment thinkers challenged regimes that did not grant full religious freedom or that insisted on aristocratic privilege. |
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1789 |
the year that the american colonies set up a new constitution structure based on englightenment ideas |
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1789 |
the year the french revolution began |
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the bastille |
the revolutionary symbol that was stormed on july 14th |
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Napolean Bonaparte |
the person who ushered in the final phase of the french revolution |
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1815 |
the year that a european alliance finally crushed the french empire |
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liberals |
people focused primarily on issues of political structure and want to limit state interference in individual life. urge representation of propertied people in govt. |
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socialist |
people who urged an attack on private property in the name of equality and an end to capitalist exploitation of workers |
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ottoman rule |
who the greece fought independence from |
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belgium |
the nation that became independent for the first time as a result of a revolution in 1830 |
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the reform bill of 1832 |
the piece of legislation that gave the vote to many members of the middle class in great britain |
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james watt |
developed the seam engine that could be used for industrial production |
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interchangable parts |
the contribution of american inventors to the indstrial revolution |
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chartists |
the movement of artisans and workers in britain in the 1830s and 1840s aimed at obtaining the vote for all males |
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France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Prussia |
regions that were troubled by rebellion in 1848 |
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2/3 |
the proportion of the western population that enjoyed conditions above the subsistence level by 1900 |
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germs |
what louis pasteur discovered |
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Benjamin Disreali |
the british conservative prime minister who extended the vote to working class males in 1867 |
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Count camillo di cavour |
was responsible for managing the unification of Italy |
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Otto Von Bismarck |
the German conservative who was responsible for the unification of germany |
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Germany |
the nation where socialism produced the strongest political party |
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Revisionist |
socialist movements that proposed the possibility of gradual and peaceful change rather than revolution |
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Charles Darwin |
person who proposed evolution in 1859 as the basis of biological development |
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Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States |
regions that were an area of western expansion |
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Penal settlements |
Britain's Austrailian colony |
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American exceptionalism |
suggests that united states developed on its own terms with only incidental contact with europe |
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Triple Entente |
France, Britain, Russia |
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middle of 19th century |
the time that the shift from pre-industrial to industrial imperialsim took place |
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Java |
the earliest example of a european empire built as a result of independent initiative of company agents |
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Plassey |
the critical battle where the british defeated a combined force of indians & french |
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Bengal |
where the victory of the forces of the BEIC over the french gave the british direct control |
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1757 |
year british won battle of plassey |
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Robert Clive |
the british commander during the military victories over the french in india during the 18th century |
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Mughal empire |
the group that the territories controlled by the british east india co. expanded concurrently with the collapse of |
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nabobs |
later representation of british east india company who went out to secure sudden wealth often through corruption |
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Lord charles cornwallis |
person responsible for the sweeping reforms in india in the 1790s |
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evangelical religious revival |
the english movement that was critical to the social reform movement in the british empire by the beginning of the 19th century |
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utilitarianism |
the philosophical movement that jeremy bentham and james mill were leaders of and supported social reform in the colonies |
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France |
the country that granted citizenship to educated inhabitants of their colonies |
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1870s |
the decade that the european countries reduced much of africa, asia, and the pacific to colonial possesions |
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britain |
the european country that dominated overseas trade and empire building in the first half of the 19th century |
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Belgium, france, germany, U.S, italy |
the nations that entered the competitive race for colonial empire and industrial supremacy after 1870 |
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Isandhlwana |
the battle in 1879 that the zulus defeated british military forces |
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tropical dependencies |
european empires that existed in africa, Asia and the south pacific |
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Canada/Australia |
a white dominian |
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contested settlement colony |
the type of colony that was south africa prior to 1902 |
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Orange Free State/Transvaal |
republics that were founded by the boers in 1850s |
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Capitan James Cook |
person who effectively opened hawaii to the west |
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Kamehameha |
the hawaiian prince who created a united kingdom in 1810 with the aid of british weapons & advisors |
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Great Mahele |
the edict imposed the western concepts of property on hawaiian land, which had previously been shared by commoners and aristocrats |
