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Realpolitik
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Politics of reality based on practicial concerns rather than theory or ethics
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Baron Haussmann
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Helped economic expansion in Paris Narrow streets and city walls destroyed and replaced by modern broad boulevards
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Crimea
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Part of the Ottoman empire that Russia tried to take and Britian and France both tried to protect it
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Victor Emmanuel II
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Kind of Piedmont he named Count Camillo di Cavyr as the prime minister in 1852
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Red Shirts
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1000 volunteers rallied together by Garibaldi they were victorious in italy that helped bring Spain under Victor Emanuel II
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Bismarck
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Appointed prime minister of William II. Born aristocrat succeeded in guiding Prussia's unification of Germany. Victorious in 3 wars.
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Reichstag
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The lower house of parliament elected by universal male suffrage
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Francis Joseph
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Emperor of Italy tried to establish a Riechstag
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Ausgleich
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of compromise in 1867 which created a dual monarch of Austria-Hungary
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Alexander Herzen
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Radical writer whose slogan "land of freedom" epetomized his belief that Russian peasents were instrumental for reform.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Tory leader in Parliament wanted to win over the newly franchised groups to the conservative party
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Karl Marx
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radical journalist
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Das Kapital
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witer by Marx unfinished work
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Michael Faraday
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englishman discovered electromagnetic induction
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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Achieved first major medical break through for women
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Auguste Comte
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Frenchman who put studies of science and society togeteher. Major work "System of Positive Philosophy"
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William Thackeray
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Wrote vanity fair a novel without a hero he deliberately plouted the romantic conventions.
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Camillo di Cavour
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Prime Minister who helped make Victor Emmanuel King of Italy
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Giuseppi Garibaldi
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Military leader who added Sicily to the new kingdom of Italy
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Benjamin Disraelli
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Conservative prime minister who passed the reform bill of 1867
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William Gladstone
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Liberal prime minister who introduced the secret ballot
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Dialetical Materialism
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How economic forces will bring a classless society
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Michael Faraday
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Builder or the first generator of electricity
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Louis Pasteur
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Chemist who pioneered in fermentation and bacteriology
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Joseph Lister
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Using carbolic acid he eliminated surgical infections
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Positivism
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Aguste Comte's theory that only scientifially varified facts are valid
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Gustave Flaubert
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Perfector of the realist novel with his Madam Bovary
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In establishing the 2nd empire, Napoleon III
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Recieved the overwhelming support of the people
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Under the "liberal empire" of Napoleon III in the 1860s
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Tarifs on foreign goods were lowered,
the legislative corps was permitted more say in affairs of the state trade unions and the right to strike were legalized |
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Napoleon III chose Baron Haussmann to direct the rebuilding of
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The entire city of Paris
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The Crimean war convinced Napoleon III that he had an international mission to
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referee continental disputes
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An overall result of the Crimean war was
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an international climate in which both italian and german unifacations were possible
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As leader of the Italian unification movement Camillo di Cavour
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stoked the Piedmont economy in order to pay for a large army
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Before the administration of Otto Von Bismarck, Prussia was characterized by a
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system of votiong determined by wealth
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A result of Bismarck's Austro-Prussian War was
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All or none of the above
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The immediate cause of the Franco-Prussian war was
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a Bismarck edited telegram from King William I
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The creation of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary
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Allowed Magyars and German speaking Austrians to dominate ethnic minorities
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In the 1860's Russia and the US both
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emancipatedd enslaved populations within their borders
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As british prime minister from 1855-1865 Lord Palmerston
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staunchly opposed extending the franchise
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A cornerstone of Disraeli's domestic policy in Britain was
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winning the working classes to the Tory party
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Industrialization on the continent from 1850-1870 saw
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railroads become the major area of industrial expansion
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According to Karl Marx's vision for the industrial future, the state would
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wither away because it would be unnecessary
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The theoretical discoveries in science during the 19th century led to all of the following except
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a renewal of religious faith and spiritual committment
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Which of the following best applies to Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory
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It was based on the idea of survival of the fittest in which advantagous variants determine survival
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Elizabeth Blackwell earned the first medical degree in the US
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by a combination of admission error and perseverance
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The literary realists of mid 19th century
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preferred to feature ordinary characters to mythic heros
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Realist art of the 19th century was
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Particuraly interested in the natural environment
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