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94 Cards in this Set
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Reform Bill entitles the middle class to vote
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1832
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Samuel Morse patents the first known telegraph
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1837
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Karl Marx and Friedrich English publish the COmmunist Manifesto
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1848
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Parliament repeals Corn Laws
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1846
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Mexican-American war
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1846-48
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte establishes France's Second Empire
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1852
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Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is published
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1859
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British North America Act creates the dominion of Canada
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1867
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Laying of the first successful trans-Atlantic cable
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1866
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Reform Act grants voting privileges to all British male homeowners
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1867
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France's Third Republic begins
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1870
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Unification of Germany completed
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1871
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Porfiio Diaz elected president of Mexico
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1876
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The Dreyfu Affai occurs in France
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1894
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The Wright borthers make thier first successful flight in North Carolina
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1903
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Parliament Bill gives the House of Commons power over the House of Lords
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1911
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British women over thirty receive the right to vote
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1918
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What is Socialism?
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An economic term. Refers to government ownership of business. Promotes the welfare of the group. Reaction against capitalism. Social equality in which society is restructured so that workers contol the wealth they produced. Harmony and cooperation throughout society. Classless society.
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Utopian Socialism
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Belief that people are the products of their environment. Therefore, educations, labor reform, and other improvements to man's cultural environment would improve man's character.
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Christian Socialism
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Advocated the good news of achieving justice and equality. Denied and distorted the biblical teachings on Creation, the Fall, and Redemption.
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Karl Marx
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(1818-83) Student of philosophy and history. Radical political views. Kicked out of many countries.
Wrote Communist Manifesto in 1848. |
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What is a Proletariet
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Laborers
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Bourgeioisie (BOOR zhwah ZEE)
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Capitalists
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What is the Communist Manifesto about?
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HIstory is a series of class struggles.
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What were some of Karl Marx beliefs?
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He believed that private ownership of property and private control of wealth were evil. He believed that a small number of men controlling the wealth was wrong. He thougth that violent revolution would end these problems.
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Communism
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Common ownership of property
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What did Karl Marx believe about communism?
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He believed that it would result in the proletariat (laborer) establishing a dictatorship where the worker would be in power.
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What did Karl Marx believe about religion?
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He was a materialist. He believed that Christianity was the not true. He rejected the idea of a sovereign God. He believed that Christianity kept the proletariat (laborer) in bondage.
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What is suffrage?
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The privilege to vote
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What is temperance?
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Drinking (alcohol) in moderation
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What is abstinence (as related to alcohol)?
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No drinking of alcohol
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British Association for the Promotion of Temperane and Band of Hoe
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worked to protect working class children from becoming victims of alcohol.
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What was the League of the Cross?
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Catholic abstinence group (Worked to encourage people to stop drinking).
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Women's Temperance Association
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Formed to convince men to stop drinking.
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What did the repeal of the Corn Laws do?
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Removed one of the tariffs (taxes). Allowed merchants to import cheaper grain and lower the cost of food for everyone.
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What was the Reform Bill of 1832?
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Entitled the middle class to vote. Members of the working class were still excluded (unable to vote).
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What was the Chartism movement?
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Working class came together to accomplish several goals. Sought the right for every Englishman to vote. Supported the use of the secret ballot. Their movement failed, but many of the things they fought for eventually became law.
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What did Benjamin Direali do?
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He was the Prime Minister that succeeded in doubling the number of men who could vote.
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What was the Reform Act of 1867?
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Granted voting privileges to all homeowners.
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When did all Brititsh women recieve the right to vote?
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1928
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Who William Gladstone?
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He stressed domestic reform druing his terms as prime minister. Helped establish a national court system and voting by secret ballot. Labored to improve public education.
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What was the Parliament Bill of 1911?
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It established the supremacy of the House of Commons over the House of Lords. (The House of Lords could no longer veto laws passed by the House of Commons).
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What happened in 1848?
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THe French overthrew the next government during the Revolution of 1848.
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Who was Louis Napoleon Bonoparte?
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French elected him as president of the newly formed Second Republic in 1848. He declared himself president for life. Gave himself the title of emperor of France, as Napoleon III, and established the Second Empire. Was in power until the people revoled in 1870.
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Third Republic
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Louis Napoleon lost favor with the people. The forces captured and deposed Louis Napoleon. He spent the rest of his life in exile in England.
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What is anti-semitism?
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Hostility towards Jews?
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What was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Exposed a strong undercurrent of anti-Semitism in France. The French government accused him of passing military secrets. Even though he was innocent, they convicted him and sentenced him to life in prison on Devil's Island.
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What does the term pogrom mean?
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Was first used to refer to a sweeping, targeted, and repeated attack on Jews in Russia.
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According to Marx, what would end the cycle of class struggle?
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He believed that when the proleriate (laborers) united against the bourgeoisie (capitalists) these struggles would end.
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What privilege did the woman's suffrage movement seek?
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The right for women to vote.
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What did the American temperance groups seek in order to make alcohol illegal in the United States?
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Maci answer
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What were teh goals of the Chartist Movement?
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Universal manhood sufferage (right to vote), use of secret ballot.
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How did the Dreyfus Affair expose anti-Semitism in France?
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A Jew, Alfred Dreyfus, was targeted by the French government and illegally accused of passing military secrets. He was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. It was only after a lot of pressure that he was finally released and restored to his post.
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What is Romanticism?
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What is realism?
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Who was Charles Dickens?
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Who was Leo Tolstoy?
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How did realism differ from Romanticism?
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About what did Charles Dickens write?
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What new invetion possibl influenced realist painters?
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What was the earliest form of public education in Britain? What was its goal?
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How did Germany develop one of the finest education systems in Europe?
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Who was James Maxwell
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Who was Louis Pasteur?
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What is pasteurization?
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Who was Charles Darwin?
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Can Christianity and Evolution mix?
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Who was Robert Fulton?
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What is and internal combustion engine?
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Who were the Wright Brothers?
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What is the telegraph?
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Who was Samuel Morse?
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What is the telephone? Who invented it?
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Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
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What did James Clerk Maxwell combine into one model?
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What theory did Louis Pasteur prove to be a myth?
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Over what issue did Darwin struggle?
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What two modes of transportation developed beacuse ofthe invention of the steam engine?
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Why couldn't Edison use Bell's early version of the telephone?
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Who was Porfirio Diaz?
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What was the British North America Act?
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List Latin American countries that developed some form of democracy.
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Why did many Latin American countries fail to develop stable governments?
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What country invaded Mexico in the 1860's and set up a puppet ruler?
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What act initially secured French Candadian loyalty to Britain?
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What role does the British monarch play in Canadian government?
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Why did several European countries expel Karl Marx?
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Why idd the British temperance movement divide over supporting regulation to ban drinking alcohol?
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what was the result of Britain's shifting toward a free trade economy?
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Why did the British seek the right to use a secret ballot for elections?
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How did German composer Richard Wagner demonstrate an anti-Semitic attitude?
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Which type of painting would probably be more bright and colorful, Romantic or Realist? Why?
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Describe Louis Pasteur imense conritbution to science.
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What impact did Darwin's work have onthe direction of science?
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