Ap 3 Ch23 The Industrialization Of The West, 1760-1914_Key People

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an Enlightenment thinker during the French revolution whom challenged regimes that did not grant full religious freedom or that insisted on aristocratic privelage. He also argued for government based on a general will , which can be interpreted as a plea for democratic voting.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Louis XVI

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Louis XVI was the king of France during the French Revolution, and he called a meeting of the traditional parliament to consider tax reform for his financially pinched regime. However his hopes of a peaceful reform were dashed when he caved into street riots pressing for radical reforms in 1789, and he eventually was killed by the revolutionaries.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre was the leader of the French radical phase and he was the classic example of a revolutionary ideologue. He gained his law degree in 1781 and in 1792 he headed the prosecution of the king and in turn he took over the leadership of government. however, when he called for yet another purge of modern leaders he was sent to the guillotine by the factions that had once supported him.

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Ch 23 The Indiutrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte was a leading general in France whom converted the revolutionary republic to an authoritarian empire. He reduced the parliament to a rubber stamp, and a powerful police system limited freedom of expression however he promoted religious freedom and enacted substantial equality in a series of new law codes. But Napoleon devoted much of his time to expansion, hoping to extend France's border over Europe but his hopes of a large French empire were destroyed when he lost power in France.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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James Watt

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James Watt was a Scottish artisan whom devised a steam engine that could be used for prouction in the 1770s.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur discovered the germ in the 1880s, which led to more conscientious sanitary regulations and procedures by doctors and other health care specilists.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli was a British conservative whom took the initiative of granting the vote to working-class men in 1867.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Count Camillo di Cavour

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Count Camillo di Cavour supported industrial development and extended the powers of the parliament to please liberal forces.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Otto von Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck was a prime minister in Prussia and he began to work with a parliament and to extend the vote to all men.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Karl Marx

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Karl Marx created the politcal theory of socialism which he saw as the final phase of an inexorable march of history.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Emmeline Pankhurst

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Emmeline Pankhurst was typical of the more radical femminst leadership both in background and tactics. She worked to improve women's rights and she participated in the Socialist Fabian Society.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin published a major work concerning the evolutionary theory in 1859. He argued that all living species had evolved into their present form through the ability to adapt in a struggle for survival. Darwin's ideas clashed with the established church doctrine that God created all creatures, from the beginning of time, as they are today.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein's theory of relativity added time as a factor in physical measurement.

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Ch 23 The Industrialization of the West 1760-1914
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Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud was a Viennese physician whom began to develope theories of the workings of the human subconscience. He argues that much behavior is determined by impulses but that emotional problems can be relieved if they are brought into the light of rational discussion.