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Second Industrial Revoltuion
A revolution associating with chemicals, electricity, steel, and oil.
Europe, but started in Great Britain
19th century
The economic expansion of the third quarter of the century involved the spread of industries similar to those pioneered earlier in Great Britain.
There became quicker processes to make steel with the Bessemer Process, electricity was invented, automobiles were invented, and chemicals permitted increased production of many everyday things.
Petite Bourgeoisie
Lower middle class in 19th century Europe
Europe
"White-collar workers" who formed the lower middle class, including secretaries, retail clerks, and lower-level bureaucrats in business and government.
They often had working class origins and might belong to unions, but had middle class aspirations and consciously sought to distance themselves from a lower class lifestyle.
Baron Georges Haussmann
He oversaw a vast urban reconstruction program in Paris.
France
1809-1891
Napoleon III was personally determined to redesign Paris, so he appointed this person to complete the task.
Even when Napoleon III was overthrown, he still continued the process of reconstructing Paris.
Millicent Fawcett
She led the moderate National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
Britain
1847-1929
She believed Parliament would grant women the vote only if it were convinced they would be respectable and responsible in their political activity.
She and her National Union could rally almost half a million women in London, and her tactics were those of English liberals.
Emmeline Pankhurst
She led the Women's Social and Political Union.
1858-1928
She was more radical, and lobbied publicly and privately for extending the vote to women.
She and her union turned to violent tactics of arson, breaking windows, and sabotage of postal boxes, also marching en masse on Parliament.
Anti-Semitism
The hatred or mistreatment of Jews.
Europe, mostly Russia, also Germany and France
2nd half of the 19th century
Jews endured legalized persecution and discrimination that haunted them so.
They believed their communities would remain safe under the liberal legal protections that had been extended during the century, but it was truly wrong int eh 1930s and 1940s.
The Fabian Society
The most influential socialist group in Britain.
Founded in 1884
Believed the problems of industry, the expansion of ownership, and the state direction of production could be solved and achieved gradually, peacefully, and democratically.
Sought to educate the country about the rational wisdom of socialism.
Opportunism
The belief that participation by socialists in cabinets was okay.
19th-20th century
France rejected opportunism because it was the opposite of revisionism, the belief opposite of opportunism.
The Amsterdam Congress of the Second International debated this issue.
Revisionism
Belief that there should be no contact whatsoever with the cabinet.
These people who believed in this argued that evolution toward social democracy might be possible in liberal, parliamentary Britain, but not in authoritarian, militaristic Germany.
Created by Eduard Bernstein, generated heated debate among German socialists, who finally condemned them.
Kulaks
Many free peasants with too little land to support their families had to work on large estates owned by nobles or for more prosperous peasant farmers, known as this.
Russia
Peasants did not own their land as individuals, but communally through the mir, or village.
They farmed the land inefficiently through strip farming or by tilling small plots.
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