AP WORLD HISTORY: 1750-1900 C.E.

A document modeled after the political philosophies of John Locke. It altered the natural rights identified by John Locke to include “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

A late nineteenth-century movement in which the Chinese modernized their army and encouraged western investment in factories and railways.

A literary and artistic movement in nineteenth-century Europe; emphasized emotion over reason.

A long ponytail that Chinese men were forced to wear in order to distinguish them from Manchus.

A manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes rather than a factory setting.

A member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 C.E.

A statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution.

A statement of the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

An economic system in which the state controls the means of production.

An Enlightenment philosophy that favored civil rights, the protection of private property, and representative government.

Bird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century.

Canal constructed by Egypt across the Isthmus of Suez in 1869.

Collection of laws that standardized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Conflict between the United States and Spain that began the rise of the United States as a world power.

A conflict from 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco’s forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces (1898).

Control of a country’s economy by the businesses of another nation.

Democratic and nationalistic revolutions, most of them unsuccessful, that swept through Europe.

Divisions of a country in which a particular foreign nation enjoys economic privileges.

Extreme radicals during the French Revolution.

Idea, which argued that time and space are relative to one another.

Idea, first proposed by Charles Darwin, that species survive due to favorable characteristics.

In France, the class of merchants and artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of the French Revolution; in Marxist theory, a term referring to factory owners.

In Marxist theory, the class of workers in an industrial society.

In nineteenth-century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches.

Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship, which existed in Britain which allowed it to lead in the Industrial Revolution.

Large industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late nineteenth century.

Military draft.

Nineteenth century reforms by Ottoman rulers designed to make government and military more efficient.

Policy issued by the United States in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers.

Political party that became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement.

Restored legitimate monarchs to the thrones of Europe and to create a balance of power.

Revolt against foreign residents of China.

Revolt of Indian soldiers against the British; caused by a military practice in violation of the Muslim and Hindu faiths (1857).

Rights that belong to every person and that no government may take away.

Slave holding Boers, who in 1834, left the Cape Colony and moved to the interior of Africa.

Society founded in 1889 in the Ottoman Empire; its goal was to restore the constitution of 1876 and reform the empire.

South Africans of Dutch descent.

South Asian soldiers who served in the British army in India.

Strikes by urban workers and peasants in Russia; prompted by shortages of food and by Russia’s loss to Japan in 1905.

The ability to combine the factors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production.

The application of Darwin’s philosophy of natural selection to human society.

The division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

The divisions of society in pre-revolutionary France.

The establishment of colonial empires.

The fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution.

The first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States.

The Manchurian invaders, who ruled China from 1644 to the early 1900s.

The meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them.

The money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization.

The movement to achieve women’s rights.

The period of the most extreme violence during the French Revolution.

The policy in the U.S. that led to its expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The right of foreigners to live under the laws of their home country rather than those of the host country.

The Russian parliament.

The Sanskrit name for the British government in India.

The temporary union of the northern portion of South America after the independence movements led by Simon Bolivar.

The traditional legislative body of France.

The transition between the domestic system of manufacturing and the mechanization of production in a factory setting.

Treaty ending the Opium Wars that ceded Hong Kong to the British (1842).

Violence against Jews in tsarist Russia.

War between Great Britain and China began with the Qing dynasty’s refusal to allow continued opium importation into China; British victory resulted in the Treaty of Nanking (1839-1842).

War between Japan and China, in 1895, over control over Korea.

War between Russia and Japan over Manchurian territory; resulted in the defeat of Russia by the Japanese Navy.

War between the British and the Dutch over Dutch independence in South Africa; resulted in British victory (1899-1902).

Western European political philosophy during the nineteenth century; advocated democracy and reforms favoring lower classes.