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23 Cards in this Set
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Factors allowing the Industrial Revolution to occur first in Britain
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Coal and iron deposits, stable government, surplus labor, demand for goods, educated population, and a capital.
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Flying shuttle
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made weaving on a loom faster and enabled weavers to double their output.
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Spinning jenny
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allowed spinners to produce yarn in greater quantities.
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James Watt
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Scottish engineer who invented the steam engine.
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Bourgeois/industrial middle class
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owners/managers/investors of the factories, entreprenuers, secretaries, etc.
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Utopian Socialism
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based on a belief of universal equality, absent of competition for the success of society at large
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Congress of Vienna
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Called to "Fix" what Napoleon had started.
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Conservatism vs. Liberalism
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New Ideas vs. The Old Order
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Concert of Europe
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An agreement between many of the countries of Europe that stated that European nations have the right to intervene in other nations’ internal revolutions in order to maintain order.
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Nationalism
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Fighting for the country rather than a King’s passing fancy.
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1848 Revolutions and their ultimate political outcomes
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They all fail, but the revolutionary ideas are not crushed
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Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III)
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Elected as president to France, but then promoted to emperor desipte the fact that France had just gotten rid of and despised an absolutist government.
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Austrian Empire
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Wanted control of the Balkan region to increase power in the Adriatic Sea.
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Ottoman Empire
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Declines during the period and leaves many European powers wanting control over the Balkan region.
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Crimean War and its importance to modern warfare and European politics
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Began as a conflict between France and Russia over protection rights of Holy Land shrines and Churches. It was the first war to use telegraphs and railroads and millitary hospitals advanced greatly during this time.
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Steps in Italian Unification
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Count Camillo de Cavour leads a political movement to gain allies and wars against the Austrian Empire for control of North Italy. Giuseppe Garibaldi and the red shirts overthrew Bourbon control in the south. United eventually under a German Prince turned Italian King.
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Otto von Bismark
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Prime Minister of Prussia
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"Realpolitic"
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Politics of Reality (You've got to break a few eggs to make an omelet).
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Danish War, Austro-Prussian War, Franco-Prussian War
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Wars lead by Otto von Bismark for Prussia.
Danish War= Gains lands south of Denmark Austro-Prussian= asserts dominance over Austria Franco-Prussian= defeats France and declares the German Empire in Versailles. |
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Second German Empire and its impact on the “balance of power” in Europe
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German states had all united and become a massive industrial, militarily powerful empire.
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Queen Victoria
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Improved working class wages, is the namesake for the "Victorian Age".
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Czar Alexander II and the emancipation of the serfs
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Peasants were allowed to marry at their own will and own their own lands, but in essence, the peasants were still tied to the land...now it was just owned by the state rather than by nobles.
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Charles Darwin
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"Father of Evolution"
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