Enlightenment & Revolutions
A movement that emphasized reason, natural rights, and questioning.
What is the Enlightenment?
The shift from handmade goods to machine-based manufacturing.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A policy where powerful nations control weaker territories.
What is imperialism?
A U.S. policy warning Europe not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
An acronym for the causes of World War I.
What is M.A.I.N.?
The belief that people are born with rights such as life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
The movement of people from farms to cities for factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
Three main reasons nations practiced imperialism.
What are political, economic, and social motives?
An addition allowing the U.S. to act as a police power in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The “A” in M.A.I.N., involving defense agreements between nations.
What is alliances?
A revolution caused by British taxation and influenced by Enlightenment ideas.
What is the American Revolution?
An economic system based on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
The belief that Europeans were superior and should dominate others.
What is Social Darwinism?
Japan’s rapid modernization that led to imperial expansion.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
A form of land warfare involving trenches and stalemates.
What is trench warfare?
A French Revolution caused by inequality, debt, and Enlightenment ideas.
What is the French Revolution?
An economic system that supports worker or government ownership of industry.
What is socialism or communism?
A meeting that divided Africa among European nations.
What was the Berlin Conference?
Wars that weakened China and increased European influence.
What were the Opium Wars?
Government use of media to influence public opinion during war.
What is Propaganda?
A violent phase of the French Revolution led by Robespierre.
What was the Reign of Terror?
Large businesses that limit competition, such as trusts or monopolies.
What are corporations, monopolies, or cartels?
Types of imperial control including direct rule and indirect rule.
What are protectorates and spheres of influence?
One major effect of imperialism on China.
What was loss of sovereignty or foreign control?
A system where civilians, factories, and economies support the war effort.
What is total war?