SOCIAL + CULTURAL
Applied ideas of Darwin’s idea about natural selection and survival of the fittest to human societies.
What is Social Darwinism?
Invention of James Watt that revolutionized power and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
Rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable.
What are natural rights?
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war.
What is communism?
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members.
What are labor unions?
The fight for the right of women to vote in elections.
What is women's suffrage movement?
Resource that allowed Europeans to enter the industrial revolution era to surpass Asia in all manufacturing
What is coal?
He established Belgium as a colonial power in Africa and is best known for the widespread atrocities that were carried out under his rule, as a result of which as many as 10 million people died in the Congo Free State.
Who is King Leopold II?
Conflicts fought in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty.
What are the Opium Wars?
Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
Movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
U.S. federal law that was the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Worker focused on performing one task that was part of a larger series of tasks, at the end of which a product would be produced.
What is Specialization of Labor?
A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism.
What is the British East India Company?
Term for the the task that white colonizers believed they "had to" impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies.
What is the White Man's Burden?
The practice of switching different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil and led to increased crop yields and growing population.
What is crop rotation?
Meeting where European powers sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources and land at the expense of the African people.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Legislation that took land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village and change it to privately owned land.
What are Enclosure Acts?
A period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Radical French feminist and author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman whose radical ideas eventually led to her death by guillotine in revolutionary France.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
Legislation of the new Commonwealth of Australia that effectively stopped all non-European immigration into the country.
What is White Australia Policy?
An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
What is the Social Contract?
Translates to "allow to do"; an economic policy or attitude of letting the economy self-regulate without government interference.
What is Laissez-Faire?
In 1868, a Japanese state-sponsored industrialization and Westernization effort.
What is Meiji Restoration?