Unit IV Vocabulary (Modern Era)

Unit IV Vocabulary (Modern Era)

Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World

Enlightenment Philosophes: Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith
Seven Years’ War/French and Indian War / Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Declaration of Independence / Battles of Saratoga and Yorktown
U.S. Constitution / Ancien Régime
Estates General/National Assembly / Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
levée en masse / Louis XVI
guillotine / Robespierre, Jacobins
“cult of reason” / Olympe de Gouges
Napoleon / Civil Code (Napoleonic Code)
Waterloo / Congress of Vienna
gens de couleur / maroon, maroonage
Boukman / Toussaint L’Ouverture
penisulares, creoles / Miguel de Hidalgo
Símon Bolivár / Gran Columbia
“Jamaican Letter” / Emperor Pedro I
caudillos / Juan Manuel de Rosas
Lopez de Santa Anna / Benito Juarez, La Reforma
Zionism / Cavour
Garibaldi / Bismarck
Lincoln / secession
Emancipation Proclamation / federalism
British North America Act / Dominion of Canada
John MacDonald

The Making of Industrial Society

Watt’s steam engine / factory system
Luddites / Adam Smith
capitalism / Josiah Wedgwood
Eli Whitney / corporation
monopolies, trusts, cartels / Crystal Palace Exhibition
the demographic transition / Thomas Malthus
utopian socialists / The Communist Manifesto
Witte / zaibatsu
golondrinas (“swallows”) / Henry Ford

Societies at Crossroads

Napoleon / Muhammad Ali
Capitulations / Janissaries
Mahmud II / Tanzimat Reforms
Young Ottomans / Young Turks
Constitution of 1876 / Tsar Alexander II
Alexander III / Nicholas II
Crimean War / Great Reforms
emancipation / zemstvos
Sergei Witte / pogroms
Russo-Japanese War / Bloody Sunday
Duma / cohong system
Opium War / Treaty of Nanjing
unequal treaties / Hong Kong
tributary empire / Taiping Rebellion
Hong Xiuquan / Self-Strengthening Movement
Empress Cixi / Boxer Rebellion
Admiral Perry / Tokugawa
bakufu / Meiji Reforms
Imperial Diet / zaibatsu

The Building of Global Empires

hegemony / Cecil Rhodes
Cape to Cairo / civilizing mission
White Man’s Burden / Social Darwinism
steam-powered gunboats / breech-loading rifles
maxim guns / Battle of Omdurman
submarine cables / BEIC (Brit. East India Co.)
Sepoy Revolt / the Great Game
VOC (Dutch East India Company) / French Indochina
Livingstone and Stanley / Suez Canal
Boer War (South African War)
Maoris / Queen Lili’uokalani
Indian National Congress
Panama Canal / Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary / Russo-Japanese War