Ap World History 1750-1900

Natural rights

Universal rights not dependent on laws of a government

Social contract

Agreement between ruler and ruled defining rights of each

Nationalism

Loyalty to a nation or nation state

Suffrage

Right to vote

Letter from Jamaica

Written by Simon Bolivar explaining his thoughts about situation in Spanish America

19th liberalism

Political and economic ideas promoting individual freedom

Private property in Britain

Legal protection of property

First Industrial Revolution

Textiles and steam engine

Second Industrial Revolution

Steel production and precision machinery

Meiji Era

Modernization and westernization of Japan

Adam Smith

Laissez faire

Laissez-faire

Minimal govt interference in individual economic affairs

Capitalism

Trade and industry controlled by private owners for profit

Karl Marx

Communist manifesto

Socialism

Social ownership of production

Sepoy mutiny

India vs Britain- Mangal Pandey

Export economies

Economies specialized in commercial extraction of natural resources and production of food and industrial crops

Taiping rebellion

Qing (manchus) vs Taiping heavenly kingdom (Chinese Jesus)

White Australia policy

Forbade non Europeans from immigrating to Australia