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54 Cards in this Set
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In 1811 the outbreak of what (known as Luddism) involved
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breaking machines
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These military commanders established themselves as a powerful group that dominated local governments in Latin America
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caudillos
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By maintaining his alliance system Bismarck tried to
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prevent France from making an alliance with Russia
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What did the Committee of Public Saftey do?
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It implemented mass terror and executions
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What Italian state led the unification of Italy?
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Piedmont-Sardinia
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What industry experience dramatic mechanization during the early industrialization?
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cotton manufacturing
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The principal aim of the reforms of Charles-Alexander de Calonne was
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to improve royal finances in France
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The Young Italy society
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was a nationalist movement that sought to free the northern Italian states from Austria
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According to the Declaration of Pillnitz of 1791,
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Austria and Prussia agreed to intervene in the revolution in France and restore monarchy
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Zollverein was
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a customs union within the German states
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According to the Monroe Doctrine
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the U.S. guaranteed Latin America political independence
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The first European state that experienced the Industrial Revolution was
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England
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During the 1770s and 1780s, the French monarchy
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faced serious economic and financial crisis
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At the Battle of Trafalgar
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the British destroyed the French fleet and prevented Napoleon's invasion
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What were Bismarck's political approaches?
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Use of warfare, use of diplomacy, centralized government
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The Industrial Revolution's preconditions involved all of the following:
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revolutionary changes in agriculture, the availability of capital, the growth of population
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Major issues that Latin America faced after its independence were:
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social inequality and fragmentation, economic dependence on foreign goods, political instability and fragmentation
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During the French Revolution, what social group opposed the electoral principles based on economic wealth and demanded political equality in 1790?
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Sansculottes
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In Europe the period between 1815 and 1848 is best known as
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The Age of Metternich
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Marie Antoinette was the
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wife of Louis XVI
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The Continental System
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closed continental European ports to British ships and prohibited trade with England
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Describe early 19th century liberalism
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it emphasized civil and economic freedom
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What was the Kulturkampf?
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A campaign against the Catholic Church in Germany
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What did British Poor Laws do?
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Established residential workhouses to provide shelter and work for the poor, address unemployment, reduce social tensions.
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According to Karl Marx, the conflict of what social classes would produce social revolution?
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Proletariat (workers) and bourgeoisie
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Which of the following institutions in France refused to approve new taxes and demanded that the king convene the Estates General in 1787?
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the Assembly of Notables
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Camillo di Cavour was
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the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia
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This French king ruled during the revolution and was sentenced to death by a group of radical revolutionaries and publically executed
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Louis XVI
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The Creoles primarily differed from the peninsulares in their
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place of birth
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Burschenchaften were
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student nationalist associations in the German States
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The chief aim of the Congress of Vienna was to
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maintain conservative order and piece in Europe
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Louis Cavaignac
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was a French general who crushed a popular rebellion in Paris during the June Days in 1848
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The leader of a Latin American independence movement that liberated Venezuela and Gran Colombia was
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Simon Bolivar
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The Hungarian nationalist leader that called for Hungarian independence from Austria in 1848 was
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Lois Kossuth
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Count von Metternich is best associated with
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European conservatism
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These spanish royal officers served in the Spanish colonies in Latin America as provincial governors
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intendents
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The Frankfurt Parliament
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was an unsuccessful liberal attempt to unify the German states
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The thinking of this philospher best fits Marx's theory of class struggle
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Wilhelm Hegel
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What did Napoleon Bonaparte's rule feature?
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administrative reforms, plebiscites, and economic reforms
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Chartism was
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a radical political movement that demanded political reforms
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What was the most important achievement of the 1848 revolution in Austria?
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emancipation of serfs
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The decembrist Revolt occurred in
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Russia
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The War of the Pacific
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was a conflict among Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
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The reform proposed by William I of Prussia in 1858 included
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the expansion of the Prussian military
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Against what nation was the Third Coalition formed
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France
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Which of the following completed the unification of Germany in 1871?
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Franco-Prussian War
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What best describes the economic condition in Europe during the 1840s?
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economic decline, serious agricultural crisis, high level of unemployment
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What ideology did the Risorgimento and Carbonari movements follow?
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Nationalism
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This nation achieved independence from the Netherlands and became a constistutional monarchy in 1832
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Belgium
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The territorial expansion of which of the following German states led to the unification of Germany?
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Prussia
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What best describes the economic condition in Europe during the 1840s?
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economic decline, serious agricultural crisis, high level of unemployment
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What ideology did the Risorgimento and Carbonari movements follow?
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Nationalism
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This nation achieved independence from the Netherlands and became a constistutional monarchy in 1832
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Belgium
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The territorial expansion of which of the following German states led to the unification of Germany?
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Prussia
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