Final Exam Flashcards
(46 cards)
Industrious Revolution
where households began to increase thier production and consumption of goods by working longer hours and allocating more time towareds market-oriented activites
Industrial Revolution
the process of change of from an handcraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing
Flying shuttle loom
a weaving loom that allows the shuttle carrying the weft thread to be rapidly propelled back and the forth the warp threads
Cotton Gin
a machine that seperates cotton seeds from cotton fiber
Putting-out system
where a merchang will distrubute raw materials to rual workers and they would make it at home.
Factory system
where workers and machines are concentreated in a single building.
Dominion of Canada
the formal title of canada from 1867 until early 1960s
John Macdonald
First prime minister of canada serving from 1867-1873
Nationalism
indientifies the nation as the central form of community and elevates it to the object of supreme loyalty
Colonialism
the practice of one country or group of people politically, socially, economically, and culturally dominating another country for extended period.
Manifest Destiny
the belief that the U.S had the divine right to expan westward
John O’sullvian
american journalist who coined the term manifest destiny 1845 to promote the annesxation of texas.
Young America Movement
national unity american exceptionalism and territoral expansion
Indian Removal act of 1830
established a process whereby the president could grant land west of the mississppi river to indian tribes that agreed to give up their homeland
John Ross
the cheif of the cherokees durting the 1830s. he led the nation through forced removal to the indian terrritorry
Treaty of New Echota
a treaty signed in 1835, government gave the cherokees 5 million acres of land in present day oklahoma in exchange for thier 7 million aceres of ancestral land, which lead to treaty of tears.
John Ridge
the cherokee leader major ridge is primarly known for signing the treaty of new echota in 1835
Whites Indiana manual labor school
Served as native american school for poverty children but turned out to be abusive school, abusing the kids
Berlin West Africa conference
established the legal claim by europeans that all of africa could be occupied by whomever could take it
General Act of the conference of Berlin
a document signed in 1885, that established several agreements regarding the colonzation of africa
King Leopoldo the 2
second king of belguim from 1865 and the founder and sole owner of the congo free state from 1885 to 1908
George Washington Williams
african american journalist, lawyer, minster and historian, and he served in the ohio house of repsentatives
Henry Morton Stanley
colonial who discovered and devloped the congo region
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
assassinated the ferdinand, the president of spain, which started the world war one
