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54 Cards in this Set
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Jethro Tull
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-invented the seed drill
-facilitated a bigger crop yield for the peasants |
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Canals
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-much easier and cheaper to ship by water
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Why the Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain
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-rivers and canals provided easy movement
-free trade, no tariffs to hinder trade -good credit markets -not at war like other countries at the time |
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spinning jenny
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-hand powered spinning machine
-created by James Hargreaves -breakthrough in the cotton industry |
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water fram
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-water powered spinning machine
-created by Richard Arkwright -needed many workers and a factory |
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child labor
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-received minimum pay, with long hours and dangerous working conditions
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steam engine
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-burned coal to produce steam
-Thomas Newcomen, James Watt -fundamental advance in technology |
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railroads
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-made land travel much easier, reduced the cost
-George Stephenson's Rocket first tested in 1830 between Liverpool and Manchester |
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Laissez-Faire
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-created by Adam Smith
-no government involvement, self interest and free trade |
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Iron law of wages
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-David Ricardo and Thoman Malthus
-workers should expect less money -the poor were needed in society -more money meant more kids, overpopulation would lead to less food -population would always exceed food supply |
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Utilitarianism
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-the greatest good for the most people
-Jeremy Bentham |
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Feminism and Feminists
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-men and women should be equal
-John and Harriet Mill -wanted more rights, education, divorce laws |
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Liberalism
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-largely supported by the middle class
-liberty and equality -representative government -freedom of speech, press, assembly |
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Nationalism
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-idea that each people had a cultural unity
-Herder and Volksgeist |
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french utopian socialism
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Saint-Simon
-social organization key to progress -parasites and doers Charles Fourier -self sufficient communities, no marriage Louis Blanc - wrote Organization of Work, workers should take control peacefully - social workshops to help the unemployed |
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What is Property?
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-written by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- profits were stolen from the worker who was the real source of wealth -anarchism would be achieved through education not violence |
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Marxiam Socialism
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-The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels
- class struggles always middle class vs. working class - aka bourgeoisie vs. proletariat - profit-seeking bourg exploited the proletariat - inevitable proletariat revolution coming |
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Romanticism
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- anti-Enlightenment except for Rousseau
- belief in emotions and human potential |
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Humanitarianism
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-eliminate torture, reform
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Luddites
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-those who rebelled against the new technology in factories
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List's economics
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-Freidrich List
-free trade bad, only works for England -tariffs would protect freedom and the economy |
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Results of the Industrial Revolution
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-created two new social classes, capitalists and the proletariat
-subjected workers and their families to low wages, long working days, and oppressive living conditions - |
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Heigelian dialectic
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thesis, antithesis, synthesis
-how to unify germany |
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History of Czech People
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-Francis Palacky
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Russian Slavophilism
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-they were originally Slavic
-protected the Slavs in the Balkans |
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Congress of Europe
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the concept of all the big states on the continent working together
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"White Terror"
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-The Duke of Berry was assassinated and his father was Charles X who became king after Louis died in 1824
-as a result he's quite conservative |
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Polish Ambitions
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-try to write a constitution
-Alexander I movies in and puts them down |
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Burschenschaften
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-student associations in in Baden, Bavaria, and Wurtenberg
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Carlsbad Decrees
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-imposed by Metternich
-dissolved Burschenschaften -censored literature and press |
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Corn Laws 1815
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-banned foreign importation of grain
-made the workers buy domestic grain which became more expensive and made the aristocracy richer -sparks mass protests |
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Peterloo Massacre
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-riot in London 1816
-working class gather near Manchester, St. Peter's field -wanted an annual election and universal male suffrage -the government intervened, many killed |
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Six Acts
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response to peterloo massacre, outlawed blasphemous literature and forbid demonstrations of any kind
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Monroe Doctrine
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the United States declared that there was to be no European interference on the Western Hemisphere
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Nicholas I
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became kind after Alexander I
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Tory regime
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-conservative
-put down violent radicals -pushed out the Anglican church |
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Reform Bill of 1832
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readjusted the voting representation from smaller towns to the newer industrial cities so more owners and merchants could vote
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Anti Corn Law League
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-industrialists who didn't want to have to pay the workers so much
-tried to convince the government -it was finally repealed because of the Irish Potato Famine |
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Stake in Society
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-the law now affected the lawmakers
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Poor Law of 1834
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workhouses put into place for those unemployed, made you want to get a job
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The Charter of 1838
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-Chartists demanded annual elections of the House of Commons
-also wanted universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts |
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credit mobilier
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french bank that financed railroads
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constitutional charter of 1814
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-created by Louis XVIII
-liberal constitution, not democratic -repudiated by Charles X, coup in July 1830 |
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July Ordinances
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-issued by Charles X
-got rid of charter -censored press -reduced the electorate |
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July Revolution
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-the overthrow of Charles X
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July Monarchy
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-Louis Philippe put into power
-a duke but also fought in the republic army -"King of the French people" |
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june days
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-violent uprising, with barricades
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Louis Napoleon
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-elected December 1848
-people saw good in his name |
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Napoleon III's second empire
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-new investment banks and railroad construction
-public work to beautify paris -became hereditary emperor |
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Guiseppe Mazzini
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italian nationalist
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Young Italy
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-most prominent of italian unification groups
-wanted unified republican italy |
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reichstag
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popular elected lower house in Germany
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kulturkampf
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-Bismarck's attack on the Catholic church
-put it under government control |
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goals of 19th century liberals
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-legal equality
-religious toleration -limits to the arbitrary power of government against the property of individual citizens |