1900s Flashcards

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The most accurate description of the economic division between the northern and southern states in the United States in the late 19th century was the ______ was economically diverse, and the ______ was more focused on a few sectors.

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North, South

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William Lloyd Garrison was an editor and leading ______.

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Abolitionist

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The Kansas Nebraska bill of 1854 introduce the idea of ____ ____, that the people of each new state would vote on whether slavery would be allowed.

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Popular sovereignty

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4
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The 13th amendment in the US Constitution abolished ____

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Slavery

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The belligerence and the Crimean War were ____, ____ and ____, against ____.

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Russia, Ottoman Empire and France, against Britain.

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In obtaining Italian unification, Cavour forced ____ to give up the notion of a Republican Italy.

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Garibaldi

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Otto Von Bismarck wasn’t conservative Prussian minister who united

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Germany

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In his description of the living conditions of industrial workers, the French physician implied that ____ ____ is necessary to protect urban workers

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Government protection

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Working women of Lancaster justified their continued employment by arguing that ____ ____ is the only occupation many women can find to earn a living

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Factory work

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10
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But the end of the 19th century, most working-class women were employed in the ____ and ____ industries

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Textile and garment

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The author whose writings apply the revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to include women was

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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British women received the vote primarily because of their contributions to the war effort in

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World War I

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In the 19 century, Jewish emancipation made the least progress in

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Russia

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14
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By about 1900, trade unions included both ____ and ____ workers

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Skilled and unskilled

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15
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The conditions of the working class in England was written by

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Frederick Engels

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In the coming this manifesto, Marx Engle stated that the revolutionary class was composed of the

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Proletariat

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The Fabians were British civil servant who advocated a ____ approach to social reform

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Gradualist

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The first European country to adopt a program of social welfare legislation was

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Germany

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19
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Darwins exclamation natural selection suggest that natural selection was ____ means of making the world more beautiful

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God’s

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Friedrich Nietzsche believes that the combined efforts of the scientific, industrial, and French revolutions place to higher value on ____ and ____

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Mediocrity and restraint

21
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Some European authors believe that the source of white racial superiority was ancient Indian and ____ civilizations

22
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____ movement around the turn-of-the-century influenced Africa to develop a more truly Muslim society

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The ____ era or “mfecane” in southern Africa resulted in the creation of several large Multi-tribal military states

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Zulus were transformed into a major kingdom and military power by

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In southern Africa, the kingdom of ____ was exceptional because it was not an aggressive military state
Lesotho
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Journalist, ____ ____ explored the Congo River in the 1880s it began to penetrate the darkness of Central Africa
Henry Stanley
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An ardent British nationalist, ____ _____ had great dreams of controlling all of Africa from Britain by building a rail way from the Cape to Cairo, reconciling the Boers under the British flag even recovering the American colonies for Britain.
Cecil Rhodes
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The end result of the ____ ____ and Boer expansion was the creation of the Orange Free state
Great Trek
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The Boers called the grassy plains of South Africa the ____
Veld
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Great Britain assumed control of Cape Colony during the ____ wars.
Napoleonic
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During the Anglo Zulu wars a British force was destroyed by us through army at
Isandhlwana
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After a bitter struggle the ____ conquered Algeria, creating the first major European colony in Africa.
French
33
The scramble for Africa was largely over by
1914
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By World War I, the only African states none of the European control were ___ and ____
Liberia and Ethiopia
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The invention of the _____ _____ aided in the expansion of cotton growing in the American south
Cotton gin
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The British establish control over Egypt primarily because the newly created ____ ____ provided a strategic link to their Asian colonies
Suez Canal
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Great Britain abolish the slave trade in the year
1807
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The Boer were predominantly of ____ background
Dutch
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The upper Nile was the place of a major confrontation in the late 1800s between the British and the Madhi at
Khartoum
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Great Britain establish a colony of ____ ____ for freed slaves
Sierra Leone
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Quinine was used by Europeans to provide partial immunity from _____
Malaria
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Cecil Rhodes became the leading figure in the deBeers syndicate and made his fortune in
Diamonds
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The ____ ____ of 1884 established guidelines to ease the frictions created by different European nations efforts to gain control of Africa
Berlin Conference
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In the 1880s the land drained by the best Congo River and its tributaries became the personal property of ____ ____ __ of Belgium
King Leopold II
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The ____ ____, A private army sent into the Transvaal to support and uitlander uprising, heightened suspicions and animosity between Boers and Great Britain
Jameson Raid
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The Boer War lasted so long because of the highly effective use of ____ tactics by the Boers.
Guerrilla
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The British utilized ____ camps as a tactic against the Boers
Concentration
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____ ____ wrote "heart of darkness" about your pain exploitation of the condo
Joseph Conrad