APWH Unit 5 Vocabulary

A philosophical movement which started in Europe in the 1700's and spread to the colonies. It emphasized reason and the scientific method. Writers of this movement tended to focus on government, ethics, and science, rather than on imagination, emotions, or religion.

• Enlightenment

• Protestant Reformation

• Industrial Revolution

• Columbian Exchange

A political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property. This ideology, derived from the Enlightenment, was especially popular among the property-owning middle classes.

• Liberalism

• Feminism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country; it further aims to build and maintain a single national identity—based on shared social characteristics such as culture, language, religion, politics, and belief in a shared singular history—and to promote national unity or solidarity.

• Nationalism

• Liberalism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men; became popular during the Enlightenment

• Feminism

• Nationalism

• Socialism

• Liberalism

A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in England c. 1750

• Industrial Revolution

• American Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Creole Revolution

In 1868, a Japanese state-sponsored industrialization and Westernization effort that also involved the elimination of the Shogunate and power being handed over to the Japanese Emperor, who had previously existed as mere spiritual/symbolic figure.

• Meiji Restoration

• Industrial Revolution

• Creole Revolution

• Isolationism

hands off approach to economic development; the government should limit its interference in the economy

• Laissez-faire economy

• Traditional economy

• Command economy

• Mixed economy

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

• Socialism

• Nationalism

• Liberalism

• Feminism

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Nationalism

• Liberalism