Unit 6 Terms Flashcards
Boston Tea Party
a raid on three British ships Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists disguised as Indians threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as an act of protest against British taxes on tea
Tennis Court Oath
an oath vowing not to separate and reassemble wherever circumstances require until the constitution of the kingdom is established
inflation
a general and progressive increase in prices
reign of terror
a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed
people of color
a person who is not white or of European Parentage
industrialization
a momentous shift from a rural agrarian economy to an urban manufacturing economy
proletariat
a large class of landless laborers, many of whom eventually moved to cities to work in urban factories
vaccination
immunize people against diseases such as smallpox
conservatives
supporters of the old order, determine to retain past structures and ways
Ideologies- system of thoughts intended to explain and transform society in accordance with certain political, social, and cultural ideas
liberalism
the concept of liberty and it’s political values, arising out of the enlightenment and Atlantic revolution
socialism
the antithesis of liberalism were socialists who stressed equality, asserting that freedom meant little to those who had no means to enjoy it and advocating more equability
nationalism
an intense devotion to one’s own cultural-linguistic group and to its embodiment in a unified dependent state
romanticism
reactions against the enlightenment where there was a cultural movement pervading Western art, literature, poetry, and music
women’s suffrage
a movement that had been working for years to gain women the right to vote, were losing patience with legislative process
imperialism
using military force or the threat or a force to establish colonies in threat or a force to establish colonies in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia
imperialism
using military force or the threat or a force to establish colonies in threat or a force to establish colonies in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia
jingoism
extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy
westernization
the adoption of non-western nations of Western style industries, technologies, institutions, and ideologies
Jim Crow Laws
institutionalized racial discrimination in the southern states
opium
an addictive narcotic drug made from poppies which produced a sense of euphoria when ingested or smoked
Taiping Rebellion
a vast uprising
sepoys
Indian soldiers who were trained and commanded by the British where the company’s rule was directed
sati
a custom by which upper-caste Hindu widows were sometimes burnt to death of their husband’s funeral pyre
triple intervention
Russia, Germany, and France intervened Japan when they were victorious against China and pressured to give back what they won
