Unit 3
Access to cheap fertile land, corrupt governments, corporate greed, & the backing of the US navy led to these companies to do this to this region.
Why did US Fruit Companies exploit Central America?
This was a political system rejects authority/hierarchy, favored by feminists in the 19th & 20th centuries.
What is Anarchy?
This is a first hand account written by someone who either experienced an event or was around the time that it happened.
What is a primary source?
The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.
What is Epistemology?
This was the period of the French Revolution following the execution of King Louis XVI when the majority of the death and violence occurred.
What was the Reign of Terror?
This US backed international banana company was the most powerful corporation to overthrow governments in Nicaragua, Honduras, & Guatemala.
What was the United Fruit Company?
This was a economic & political view that focused on individuals. If individuals did not like how a government governed their country then that government would be overthrown and would get a whole new government. It was also tied to property rights.
What is Classical Liberalism?
These medieval English laws closed off access to common land from the peasants and led to the rise in privatization.
What are the Enclosure Acts?
The methods we use to determine if something is true
or false in a metaphysical way. It is the study if being - determination of whether something is or isn’t.
In short - the methods we use to determine being or non-being.
What is Ontology?
This is a source that was written either second or third hand or came many years after the events it describes.
What is a secondary source?
This is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies.
What is Venture Capitalism?
This was an artistic movement that inspired nationalists. Which focused on emotions and glorifying the past.
What is Romanticism?
European explorers named this region this ___, because they confused native inhabitants of the Caribbean islands with people from south east Asia, thinking they they sailed across the world.
Why did Columbus call the Caribbean the West Indies?
A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
The idea that one can use reason to work out a problem.
What is Rationalism?
Most venture capitalist are employed by these companies who handle other people's investments.
What are Investment Groups?
This is the economic term for a group of corporations that collaborate to have control of a market.
What is a Cartel?
This Austrian politician/diplomat organized the Congress of Vienna & oversaw the restructuring of European power after the fall of Napoleon.
Who is Metternich?
This is the term for the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is a family of philosophical views that question the possibility of knowledge. It holds that one cannot know something absolutely with complete certainty.
What is Skepticism?
These were the mid 19th century nationalist uprisings that spread throughout Europe following the war of Italian Unification and the 3rd French Revolution.
What were the 1848 Revolutions?
This type of transportation focused urban development has led to a poor environment, long commutes, loss of 3rd spaces, the failing of small businesses, & social isolation.
What are the problems with Car-Centered Planning?
This pre-revolution French government was composed of three bodies (or estates), the first estate made up of nobles and the king, the second estate made up of the church & its clergy, and the third estate made up of the rest of the population who was always outvoted by the other two.
What was the Estates-General?
A concern with this system is that only the landlords would profit from the new privatization of common lands; additionally, this would set a trend that property ownership would lead some to exploit those with no property.
(Note that there are two parts to the answer)
What were the problems with Enclosure and the rise of Capitalism?
This is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.
What is Empiricism?
This is a graphic tool used to determine and chart one's political & economic views.
What is a Political Compass?