World history
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- Alexander Graham Bell
- Inventor of the telephone.
- Girondins
- Delegates in the National Convention who favored a republic but feared domination by Paris.
- supply and demand
- the business law that states that prices and profits depend on both the amount of available goods and the demand for those goods.
- Bundesrat
- The Upper House of the Legislative Assembly in Germany.
- Jacobins
- Delegates in the National Convention who favored a republic dominated by Paris.
- Napoleon I
- Ruler of France who defeated the most powerful armies in Europe to esttablish a vast empire.
- Legislative Assembly
- The powerul ruling legislature that was elected by only a minority of the population of France in 1791.
- Thomas Edison
- Inventor of the light bulb.
- Creoles
- White people born in the Latin American colonies.
- interchangeable parts
- Parts that are exacly alike helping in the speed of production and ease of repair.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen
- This French declaration embodied the principles if liberty, equality, and fraternity.
- First Estate
- The first class of French society made up of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Reichstag
- The Lower House of the Legislative Assembly in Germany.
- collective bargaining
- Negotiation between management and union representatives about wages, hours, and working conditions.
- Mestizos
- People of American Indian and European background in the Latin Amerrican colonies
- Guiseppe Garibaldi
- He formed the "Red Shirt" army who conquered southern Italy helping to unite the country.
- Third Estate
- The third class of French society made up of 97% of the people.
- monopolies
- Corporations that gain complete control of the production of a single good or service.
- Congress of Vienna
- Meeting of the major European powers to restore order, peace, and suppress the ideas of Revolution in France and Europe.
- Victor Emmanuel II
- King of Sardinia who wanted to expand his territory.
- mass production
- The system of producing large numbers of identical items.
- socialism
- Government ownership of the means of production for the benefit of all people rich and poor.
- Simon Bolivar
- He led revoltions against the Spanish in Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
- Karl Marx
- He dreamed of a revolution in which the workers of the world would unite to gain political power.
- Peninsulares
- People born in Spain and Portugal who ruled the Latin American colonies.
- Austro-Prussian (Seven Weeks) War
- Defeat of the once powerful Austrians by the Germans using advanced technology and modern weaponry.
- Otto Von Bismarck
- The Chancellor of the German Empire who resigned when William II became Emperor.
- Estates General
- A representative body made up of the three major social classes of France.
- Reign of Terror
- The time in France when the National Convention worked to brutally suppress all opposition and revolts by using violence.
- communism
- Total government control of the means of production and all economic planning.
- Mulattoes
- People of European and African ancestry in the latin American colonies.
- free enterprise
- Economic system not hindered by laws and regulations
- Henry Ford
- Invented the Model T automobile.
- Second Estate
- The second class of French society made up of the noblility
- Zollverein
- The customs union formed in 1834 in Germany.
- Camilio Benso de Cavour
- Liberal Republican Italian patriot who was chief minister under King Victor Emmanuel II.
- unions
- Organized worker's associations.