Significant Terms
A group of countries in Europe who worked together and agreed on policies to maintain a steady balance of power which included alliances between the great powers in 1814 and 1914.
What is the Concert of Europe?
Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era
Who is Queen Victoria?
Manufacturing done by machines under one roof, with unskilled labor, using standardized parts.
What is the factory system?
The right of all males to vote in an election.
What is universal male suffrage?
The process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron.
What is puddling?
This was the result of a series of complex political and diplomatic maneuvers by the leaders of Prussia, Austria, and other German states. It was ultimately achieved through a series of wars, culminating in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, which resulted in Prussia's victory and the subsequent formation of the German Empire.
What is German Unification?
One of the most significant political figures of modern Germany. This stature derives from his contribution to the creation and shaping of the modern German state as Prussian minister president and imperial chancellor from 1862 to 1890.
Who is Otto Von Bismarck?
Money available for investment.
What is capital?
Empire in which many nationalities live.
What is a multinational empire?
A popular vote.
What is a plebiscite?
This conflict was the result of long-standing disputes over the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, the control of the Black Sea and the access to its warm waters, and the question of Ottoman control of the territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. It ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in February 1856
What is the Crimean War?
Haitian general and leader of the only successful slave revolt in the Americas during the Haitian Revolution.
What is Toussaint Louverture?
A person who finds new business opportunities and new ways to make a profit.
What is an entreprenuer?
The reliance on military strength.
What is militarism?
An economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing.
What is industrial capitalism?
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
What is the industrial revolution?
This man fought for Italian unity and almost single-handedly united northern and southern Italy. He led a volunteer army of guerrilla soldiers to capture Lombardy for Piedmont and later conquered Sicily and Naples, giving southern Italy to King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, who established the Kingdom of Italy.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
A method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes.
What is cottage industry?
The movement to end slavery.
What is abolition?
The act of setting free.
What is emancipation?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Title of the German Emperor, the Emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire.
What is Kaiser?
An economic system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.
What is socialism?
A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal use.
What is a cash crop?
An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 18th century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowledge.
What is romanticism?