Unit 5 –The Modern Era (1750-1900)
Vocabulary 2014-15
Terms followed by an * are not readily found in the text; most are in the acorn.
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“Liberty, equality, and fraternity
Abolitionism
American Revolution
Anti-Semitism
Atlantic World
Bastille
Congress of Vienna
conservatism
coup d’ etat
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man . . .
Declaration Rights of Woman . . ..
Enfranchisement
French Revolution
German unification
Gran Colombia
guillotine
Haitian Revolution
Italian unification
Jamaica letter*
John Stuart Mill
Liberalism/classic liberalism*
Locke*
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Marie Gouze/Olympe de Gouges
Mary Wollstonecraft
Maximillian Robespierre
Mexican independence
Miguel de Hidalgo
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nation/nation-state*
National Assembly
nationalism
Olaudah Equiano
Otto von Bismarck
Palestine
popular sovereignty
Saint-Dominque
Seneca Falls Conference
Seven Years’ War
Simon Bolivar
Social Contract*
suffrage
Third Estate
Toussaint L’ Ouverture
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Voltaire
William Wilberforce
Zionism
Karl Marx
Luddites
Marxism
mass production
mechanization
middle class
monopolies
proletariat
socialism
tenements
The Communist Manifesto
trade unions
Trans-Siberian Railroad
utopian socialism
Wealth of Nations
working class
Emiliano Zapata
gauchos
guano*
Indentured laborers
Industrial Migrants
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Pancho Villa
Plantation Migrants
Porfirio Diaz
U.S. Civil War
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Adam Smith
bourgeoisie
capitalism
cartel
corporations
demographic transition
factory system*
Friedrich Engels
industrialization
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“tierra y libertad”
Benito Juarez
Canadian Dominion
caudillos
creole elites
emancipation of slaves
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Alexander II
emancipation of the serfs
Balkan states*
Boxer Rebellion
British East India Company
Crimean War
Diet
Duma
Empress Dowager Cixi
extraterritoriality
Matthew Perry
Meiji Restoration
Millenarianism*
Muhammad Ali
Nicholas II
Opium War
Ottoman decline
pogroms
Qing Dynasty
Queen Victoria
Revolution of 1905/Bloody
Russo-Japanese war
Self-Strengthening movement
spheres of influence
Taiping Rebellion
Tanzimat reforms
Tokugawa
Treaty of Nanjing
unequal treaties
Young Turks
Zaibatsu
French Indochina
Great Trek
hegemony
Imperial rule/imperial policies*
Imperialism
Indentured labor migration
Indian National Congress
James Cook
Leopold II
Maji Maji rebellion
Maoris
Marathas
Monroe Doctrine
Origin of Species
Panama Canal
Queen Lili’uokalani
Queen Victoria
Rudyard Kipling
The White Man’s Burden
Scientific Racism
Sepoy Rebellion
settler colonies
Siam*
Social Darwinism*
Spanish-American War
Suez Canal
Zulu
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“civilizing mission”
“Scramble for Africa”
Dutch East India Company
Afrikaners
Anti-imperial
Berlin Conference
Boer War
Boers
Cape Colony
Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Charles Darwin
Economic imperialism*
Emilio Aguinaldo
“Acorn”
Economic:
“fossil fuels” revolution
The “second industrial revolution”
export economies
new consumer markets
Financial instruments
state pensions
public health
public education
and . . . also from the acorn
Ghost Dance or the Xhosa cattle killing
Chinese Exclusion Act or the White Australia Policy