MT 4 Flashcards
Political and Social Change (62 cards)
representative assembly of the three “estates”
Estates General
violent period at the end of French Revolution
Reign of Terror
nation is formed by a group of people with common identity,language,history and set of customs
nationalism
parts that can be swapped for another in the assembling of a product cause they have been cut and shaped to be identical
Interchangeable parts
form of protest in which workers refuse to work
strike
high volume, low cost manufacture of identical items
mass production
the growth of cities
urbanization
policy in which a state takes political and economic control of areas beyond its borders
imperialism
the tools,machines,and buildings used to produce goods and services
capital
based on prejudices related to racial differences
racist
ownership of production such as factories and farms by the people rather than by capitalists and landowners
socialism
change in government
political revolution
Domestic vs.Factory system
domestic-cottage workers produced goods in home workshops, family members carded the wool, spun it and wove it into cloth
Factory-gathered workers together in a single factory,unskilled workers,
Spanish born people
penninusulars
invented the flying shuttle to automate the weaving process
John Kay
Led continental army to victory in the revolutionary war, helped create U.S Constitution
George Washington
invented spinning Jenny to allow one person to spin dozens of threads at the same time
James Hargreaves
Where did revolutions take place in Latin America?
-6 revolutions
Haiti,Rio de la Plata,New Granada,Peru,Mexico,Brazil
invasion by Great Britain,France,Italy,Belgium,Portugual and Spain,Indian African Nations taking African territories or countries
Scramble for Africa
use of unconventional fighting done by military force
Gurrilla warfare
What did Rudyard Kiplings poem “White mans Burden” imply
it implied a divine duty for white, western nations to civilize non white people
process of fencing off areas of land used for private use
enclosure
Give five reasons why industrialization started in Great Britain
-political stability
-Labor
-Raw materials
-banking system
-Transportation system
development of industries in a country
industrialization