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85 Cards in this Set
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Cottage System |
cloth and other goods were produced in people's homes |
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Capitalism |
Private Ownership of industry Freedom of competition Creates Inequality |
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Adam Smith |
iyfl |
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City Living Conditions |
ilyg |
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Working Women and Children
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many in mines because they were smaller, long hours, tedious work, very unsafe |
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Communism
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Everything should be owned by the public, workers should overthrow owners, share all profit and control the government |
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Karl Marx
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wrote the communist manifesto, which includes that society is divided between 'haves' and 'have nots' and everything should be owned by the public |
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David Ricardo
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Believes that if there are many workers and resources, labor is cheap=wages go down as population increases |
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Thomas Malthus |
Believes that population increases fastr than food supply, so most people are poor and miserable, but that is natural |
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Laissez-faire |
"let do" Policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference. (Capitalism) |
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Socialism |
all factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all Government should plan the economy and own industry Goals to bring equality and end social classes |
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Steam Engine
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Created by James Watt |
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Importance of the Industrial Revolution |
improved farming methods plus the advantages Great Britain had in the agricultural revolution, new inventions and techniques are spread across the world |
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Luddites |
ilyfg |
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Utopians |
good conditions, fair rent on homes, no child labor |
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Anti-Semitism |
anti-jewish |
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Dreyfus Affair |
iyl |
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Charles Darwin |
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Social Darwinism |
only the strongest and the fittest people deserve to survive and prosper |
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Emmeline Pankhurst |
ilug |
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Great Irish Potato Famine |
-many farmers could only have access to potatoes for themselves while growing food for their landlord -a disease occurred in the potatoes and 1 million Irish people starved to death |
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Queen Victoria |
ruled 1837-1901 -British empire reaches height -Parliament controls most of the government -Push for women's suffrage |
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Reform Bill of 1832 |
eased property requirements |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote |
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British Colonies |
j,h |
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Berlin Conference |
1844-1845, competition for colonies is fierce-major powers meet to figure out who gets what land in Africa |
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Boer War |
British vs. Boers in South Africa, Boers won by using guerrilla (sneak attacks) and command raids |
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Apartheid |
to separate people based on race in south Africa |
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British East Indian Company |
trading post Company ruled India without the help of the British government |
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Causes/Motives of Imperialism |
SPREE S-Social P-Political R-Religious E-Economic E-Exploratory |
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Why were imperialists successful? |
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China & Imperialism |
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Colony Direct Rule Colony Indirect Rule |
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Spheres of Influence Protectorate |
Spheres of Influence- area of foreign power controls trade and investment Protectorate- |
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Dark Continent |
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David Livingstone |
6uj |
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Henry Stanley |
7ik |
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Boxing Rebellions Taiping Rebellions |
Boxer Rebellion- organized boxers to protest Qing Empire, all boxers and Chinese officials who supported this rebellion were to be beheaded Taiping Rebellion- an army was formed with 1 million men and took over part of part of South China, but the French and British attacked and the Taiping lost |
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Open Door Policy |
USA was a trade partner with China and did not want to be shut out and proposed that merchants from all nations should be allowed to trade |
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Opium Wars |
British smuggled opium into China until about 12 million were addicted, Great Britain forces China to import Opium, Chinese have no chance of winning due to technology differences |
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Pros and Cons of Imperialism in Africa, China, and India |
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Sepoy Mutiny |
-Indians did not want Christianity and British culture -Rumor spread that new rifle cartridges were greased with beef/pork fat soldiers had to bite off the ends to use, consuming was going against religion -Soldiers refused=were jailed= uprising in India |
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White Man's Burden |
78j6k |
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Japanese Modernization/Meiji Restoration |
76j |
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Armenian Genocide |
udfm |
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Attrition |
mudt |
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Balance of Power |
mudt |
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Cause of World War 1 (main)? |
M-Militarism-building up military A-Alliances-formal friendship and agreement to help each other I-Imperialism-when one country controls another N-Nationalism-pride in one's country |
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Allied Powers |
Great Britain, France, Serbia, Russia, later was Italy and US |
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Central Powers |
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire (Turkey) |
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Fourteen Points |
-created by US President, Wilson Woodrow -created 'rules' for all countries to follow (ex, no secret alliances, everyone has access to the sea, equal trade, etc) |
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Gallipoli |
-Goal was to end the stalemate in Europe -gateway to Constantinople (capital) and to meet up with Russia and crush Ottomans |
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Isotationism |
remaining apart from certain groups, usually countries |
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Issuance of the Zimmerman Telegram |
-Germany asked for an alliance with Mexico -Mexico should fight the US -Mexico would get money from Germany -Mexico gets back US lost territory |
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League of Nations |
Part of the Treaty of Versailles Germany has no say in world affairs Independence of Poland Independence of Czecho-Slovak |
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Lusitania & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
Germany's policy of sinking all military ships in British waters without warning |
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Powder Keg |
a barrel of gunpowder |
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President Woodrow Wilson |
US President who created the Fourteen Points |
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Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles |
League of Nations Territorial Loss Military Restrictions War Guilt |
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Sarajevo & Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand visits Sarajevo to exert his country's control, he is killed. |
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Self Determination |
utdm |
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Stalemate |
utd |
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The Balkans |
nmhd |
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Trench Warfare |
-developed due to new weaponry and needed protection -led to huge networks of trench -few territorial gains -diseases from small animals, easy spread of illness, and water in trenches |
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Gandhi |
kjuf |
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Mao Zedong |
uykr |
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Great Leap Forward |
urk |
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Red Guards |
urk |
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Czar Nicholas |
urek |
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Bloody Sunday |
4wet |
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Bolshevik (Communist) Party |
trsh |
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Kerensky |
trsh |
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Lenin |
tshr |
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Provisional Government |
mkui |
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Propaganda |
umtd |
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Pre-Revolution Russia |
ujtd |
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Stalin |
tdu |
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The Five Year Plan |
hj |
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The Great Purge |
utd |
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The Gulag |
tdum |
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Totalitarian Government |
utdk |
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Trotsky |
dutk |
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Appeasement and Czechoslovakia |
utdk |
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Facism |
utdk |
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Munich crisis over Czechoslovakia |
ukyt |