UNIT 5 VOCABULARY

POLITICAL REVOLUTION

• During the late 1700s radical ideas became reality.
• Political revolution began to replace the rule by monarch to rule by "by the people"

REPUBLICANISM

• A separation of powers and representation of the people through elected officials.
• A democracy based on the principles of republicanism.

LIBERALISM

• It favors political and economic freedom as well as equality.
• Liberalism has limits on state power.

COUP D'ETAT

• During 1799 the leader of the army took part in a coup d'état and ended the French revolution.
• A sudden violent government "a blow against the state"

NATIONALISM

• Pride is one common aspect of nationalism.
• Pride and devotion to ones nation.
• The idea that people with common language, culture and history should have its own nation-state.

CONSTITUTIONALISM

• To unify the country, Meiji leaders looked to constitutionalism.
• Constitutionalism is a political theory calling for government according to fundamental laws and principles.

CONCESSION

• It's a special economic privilege granted to a foreign power.
• Japan extracted economic concessions from China.

CAPITAL

• Capital can be money.
• It can also take other forms, such as the factories and machinery.
• Wealth in form of money or of resources that are used to produce other goods.

CAPITALISM

• It's an economic system that all the resources are privately owned.
• Markets that determine how those resources are distributed.

SOCIALISM

• Government that owns the resource and distributes them in a way that meets social needs.
• Aimed to replace private ownership of the means of production with public ownership.

IMPERIALISM

• A policy that a state takes political and economic control of areas outside its borders.