UNITE 5 VOCABULARY

POLITICAL REVOLUTION

• This is when a group over throws
• a previously established government
• and institutes a new one in its place.
• One example of this would be the
• American Revolution.

REPUBLICANISM

• This is a belief in the seporation
• of powers and state where people
• are represented by elected officials.
• One example of this is that the
• Bill of Rights is based on this principle.

LIBERALISM

• A political ideology that
• suports individual rights
• and limits political power.
• The principles of the French
• Revolution were based on this ideology.

COUP D'ETAT

• This is when a government
• is quickly and violently
• overthrown.
• This is what happened when
• Napoleon took control of France.

NATIONALISM

• This means to have pride
• and devotion to one's nation.
• This is how Napoleon was
• able to raise a massive volunteer
• army.

CONSTITUTIONALISM

• This is a political theory that
• calls for a government run by
• fundamental laws and principles.
• This was used by the Meiji to
• Strengthen Japan and modernize it.

CONCESSION

• An economic privilege granted
• to a foreign power.
• Japan extracted economic
• concessions from China.

CAPITAL

• Wealth that comes in the
• form of money or resources
• that are used to produce other goods.
• Overseas travel and the British industrial
• revolution were brought on do in part to capital.

CAPITALISM

• All recourses are privately owned
• and the market decides how they are
• distributed.
• Many call the US a capitalist country.

SOCIALISM

• A system of economics where
• the government provides the
• recourses and the distribution of them.
• The SU's economic system of communism
• was very similar to this.

IMPERIALISM

• This the practice of a country
• invading and concurring other
• nations to gain power.
• This is what civilizations like rome
• did in the ancient world.

The most important revolution in history is the industrial revolution. This is because it gave people a new way of manufacturing goods. If not for the industrial revolution then we would not have much of what we take for granted today. Things such as computers ,assembly lines, easily manufactured cloths, and many other things. This is why the industrial revolution is the most important in history.

REFRENCES

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions
• http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-american-revolution-washington-evere...
• http://constitutioncenter.org/experience/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/t...
• http://teachnet.eu/tobrien/about/revolutions/the-french-revolution/backgrou...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Austerlitz-baron-Pascal.jpg

REFERENCES 2

• http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/the-complicated-history-of...
• http://hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/william-morriss-ideas-about...
• http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%204%20roman.htm