WHAP Unit 5 vocab

Tax Farmers

People who collected tax for the govt

Enlightenment

New Ideals and revolutions

Benjamin Franklin

Inventor who helped negotiate with France, American revolution bro

Abolitionists

People who wanted to end slavery

Womens rights conventions

Conventions for womens rights

george washington

General in American revolution, First president

joseph brant

Native American Mohawk leader, supported the British

constitutional convention

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

estates general

An assembly of people from all three of social classes France.

Declaration of rights of man and citizen

Bill of rights for france

Jacobins

Radical republicans during French Revolution

Maximilien Robespierre

Lawyer who led french revolution

Napoleon Bonaparte

overthrew the french government in 1799

Gens de couleur

free black people in french colonies

Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture

Led Haitian revolution

Congress of vienna

Meeting of european kings to establish order

revolutions of 1848

revolutions sweaping across Europe

simón bolívar

Leader of Venezuelan revolution

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Mexican priest who led the Mexican independence war in 1810.

José María Morelos

Mexican priest and student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

American Revolution

the revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain

Natural Rights

the idea that all humans are born with rights

American Decleration of Independance

America deciding that they are going to govern themselves

Haitian Revolution

The only successful slave revolt in history

Industrial Revolution

Transforming the economy to be industry focused

Agricultural revolution

Transforming farming

Mass production

producing lots

Josiah Wedgwood

Mass produced pottery

Division of labor

Break down work into repeatable tasks

mechanization

Using machines to produce stuff

Richard Arkwright

Invented the water frame

Crystal palace

London greenhouse made of glass and iron

steam engine

Engine powerd by coal and steam

James Watt

Made steam power better

Electric Telegraph

Allowed for long distance communication

Submarine Telegraph Cable

Telegraph cables in the ocean

Thomas Edison

Made the lightbulb

Adam Smith

father of Capitalism, Wrote "On the Wealth of Nations" (1776)

Factory system

Bringing workers and machines into one building

railroad

A line of track to connect far distances by rail

steamship

A ship with a wheel that allowed it to travel up stream

Muhammad Ali

Leader of Egypt

Meiji Restoration

Followed the destruction of the Tokugawa shogunate

Socialism

Government should protect workers from exploitation

laissez faire

The government should not interfere with the economy

mercantilism

The government encouraging trade to bring in money

development

led to industrial revolution, increased economy

underdevelopment

Economies that only exported raw materials

positivism

economic problems can be solved with the scientific method

Karl Marx

Founded marxist branch of socialism

proletariat

Factory workers

labor unions

An organization of workers to defend their rights

anarchist

No government at all, anarchy

tanzimat

Ottoman reforms to seperate govt and religion

Victorian Age

Reign of Queen Victoria in Great Britain

separate spheres

Men and women have clearly different roles

cotton textile industry

turning raw cotton into cloths and fabric