Unit 4 Vocabulary
#2
AP World History
Unit 4 Vocabulary #2
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Declaration of the Rights of
Woman and of the Female
Estates
Feminism
Gran Colombia
Jacobins
Liberalism
Natural rights
Proletariat
Queue
Radicalism
Reign of Terror
Revolutions of 1848
Self-strengthening movement
Separation of Powers
Seven Years War
Social contract
Socialism
System of Checks and Balances
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Taiping Rebellion
Universal male suffrage
Berlin Conference
Boers
Boer War
Duma
Economic imperialism
Great Trek
Imperialism
Indian National Congress
Manifest Destiny
Raj
Revolution of 1905
Sepoy Rebellion
Sepoys
Social Darwinism
Spanish American War
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman
and of the Female
►A
statement of the
rights of women
written by Olympe de
Gouge in response to
the Declaration of the
Rights of Man
Estates
► The
divisions of society
in pre-revolutionary
France
Feminism
► The
movement to
achieve women’s rights
Gran Colombia
► The
temporary union
of the northern portion
of South America after
independence
movements led by
Simón Bólivar; ended
in 1830
Jacobins
► Extreme
radicals
during the French
Revolution
Liberalism
► An
Enlightenment
philosophy that
favored civil rights, the
protection of private
property, and
representative
government
Natural Rights
► Rights
that belong to
every person and that
no government may
take away
Proletariat
► In
Marxist theory, the
class of workers in an
industrial society
Queue
► Hair
braid worn by
Chinese men that was
required by the Qing
leaders to be cut off or
be executed
Radicalism
► Western
European
political philosophy
during the nineteenth
century; advocated
democracy and
reforms favoring lower
classes
Reign of Terror (1793-1794)
► The
period of most
extreme violence
during the French
Revolution
Revolutions of 1848
► Democratic
and
nationalistic
revolutions, most of
them unsuccessful,
that swept through
Europe
Self-Strengthening Movement
►A
late nineteenth
century movement in
which the Chinese
modernized their army
and encouraged
Western investment in
factories and railways
Separation of Powers
► The
division of powers
among the legislative,
executive, and judicial
branches of the
government
Seven Years’ War (1756-1763)
► Conflict
fought in
Europe and its
overseas colonies; in
North America, known
as the French and
Indian War
Social Contract
► Enlightenment
concept
of the agreement
made by the people
living in a state of
nature to give up some
of their rights in order
for governments to be
established
Socialism
► Economic
and political
philosophy based on
the idea that the
benefits of economic
activity should be
equitably distributed
throughout a society
System of Check and Balances
► Constitutional
system
in which each branch
of government places
limits on the power of
other branches
Taiping Rebellion (1853-1864)
► Revolt
in southern
China against the Qing
Empire
Universal Male Suffrage
► The
right of all males
within a given society
to vote
Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
► Meeting
of European
imperialist powers to
divide Africa among
them
Boers
► South
Africans of
Dutch descent
Boer War (1889-1902)
► War
between the
British and Dutch over
Dutch independence in
South Africa; resulted
in a British victory
Duma
► The
Russian
parliament
Economic Imperialism
► Control
of a country’s
economy by the
businesses of another
nation
Great Trek
►
The emigration of some
12,000 to 14,000 Boers
from Cape Colony in South
Africa between 1835 and
the early 1840s, in
rebellion against the
policies of the British
government and in search
of fresh pasturelands. The
Great Trek is regarded by
Afrikaners as a central
event of their 19th-century
history and the origin of
their nationhood.
Imperialism
► The
establishment of
colonial empires
Indian National Congress
► Political
party that
became the leader of
the Indian nationalist
movement
Manifest Destiny
►
Concept of U.S. territorial
expansion westward to the
Pacific Ocean that saw the
occupation of the rest of
the continent as a divine
right of the American
people. The term was
used to justify the U.S.
annexation of Oregon,
New Mexico, and California
and later U.S. involvement
in Alaska, Hawaii, and the
Philippines.
Raj
►
In many Indian languages,
it literally means Prince or
Royalty though is often
used to mean something
more like the English term
of empire and as such is
often used in reference to
the Mughal Raj and the
British Raj: the period of
direct colonial rule of India
by the British Empire.
Revolution of 1905
► Strikes
by urban
workers and peasants
in Russia; prompted by
shortages of food and
by Russia’s loss to
Japan in 1905
Sepoy Rebellion (1857)
► Revolt
of Indian
soldiers against the
British; caused by a
military practice in
violation of the Muslim
and Hindu faiths
Sepoys
► South
Asian soldiers
who served in the
British army in India
Social Darwinism
► The
application of
Darwin’s philosophy of
natural selection to
human society
Spanish-American War (1898)
► Conflict
between the
U.S. and Spain that
began the rise of the
U.S. as a world power.
The U.S. gained
possession of Cuba,
Puerto Rico, and the
Philippines as a result.