AP World Period 5 Terms

The policy in the U.S. that led to its expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific

The Russian parliament

United States policy that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers

Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship

The meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them

A statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly

Treaty ending the' Opium War that ceded Hong Kong to the British. (1842)

The fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution.

movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches

Restored legitimate monarchs to the thrones of Europe and to create a balance of power.

The application of Darwin’s philosophy of natural selection to human society

A literary and artistic movement in nineteenth-century Europe; emphasized emotion over reason.

War between the British and the Dutch over Dutch independence in South Africa

The movement to achieve women's rights.

The Manchurian invaders who ruled China from 1644 to the early 1900s

South Asian soldiers who served in the Brit­ish army in India.

began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan

Revolt of Indian soldiers against the British

advocated democracy and reforms favoring lower classes.

A statement of the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges

Slaveholding Boers, who in 1834, left the Cape Colony and moved to the interior of Africa

Control of a country's economy by the businesses of another nation.

The temporary union of the northern portion of South America after the independence movements

The period of the most extreme violence during the French Revolution

South Africans of Dutch descent.

The first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States

Nationalistic revolutions, most of them unsuccessful, that swept through Europe.

Divisions of a country in which a particular foreign nation enjoys economic privileges.

An economic system in which the state controls the means of production.

Collection of laws that standard­ized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The ability to combine the fac­tors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production.

The traditional legislative body of France

in Marx­ist theory, a term referring to factory owners

Society in the Otto­man Empire; goal was to restore the constitu­tion and to reform the empire.

reforms by Ottoman rulers designed to make government and military more efficient

The establishment of colonial empires.

The money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization

The division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

Rights that belong to every person and that no government may take away.

In Marxist theory, the class of workers in an industrial society

Military draft

Extreme radicals during the French revolution

Idea, first proposed by Charles Darwin, that species survive due to favorable characteristics

Revolt against foreign residents of China

Chinese modernized their army and encouraged western investment in factories and railways

Political party that became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement.

Idea which argued that time and space are relative to one another.

The divisions of society in pre-revolutionary France

favored civil rights, the protection of private property, and representative government.

Strikes by urban workers and peasants in Russia

Conflict between the US and Spain that began the rise of the United States as a world power