Chapter 23: (1871-1894) Flashcards
Gottlieb Daimler
Made the light engine that pioneered automotives
Gugliemo Marconi
Sent the first radio wave across the atlantic ocean
Contagious Diseases Act
Gave authorities the right to examine prostitutes for venereal disease
Later repealed because of feminism that didn’t like women being punished for disease but not men
Wilhelm Liebknecht
Led the German Social Democratic Party wanted improved conditions for the working class
August Bebel
Led the German Social Democratic Party
Worked for the benefit of the masses
May Day
May First or Labor Day
Marked by strikes and mass labor demonstrations
Eduard Bernstein
Evolutionary socialist
Was a part of the German Social Democratic Party
Wrote a book titled Evolutionary Socialism that challenged Marxism
Believed in evolution by democratic means not revolution
Michael Bakunin
Russian Anarchist
Believed that small groups of well-trained revolutionaries could perpetrate so much violence that the state and all its institutions would disintegrate
Anarchism
Wanted the total disintegration of the state and all its institutions
Was non-violent at first but turned to violence to get what it wanted
Public Health Act of 1875
In Britain
Prohibited construction of new buildings without running water and an internal drainage system
Lord Tennyson
Wrote the poem The Princess about the traditional characterization of the sexes
Reform Act of 1884
Gave the right to vote to anyone who paid regular rents/taxes
Irish Home Rule
Irish wanted a separate parliament but not independence
The Commune
An independent radical republican government in Paris
Created in response to the overwhelming favoritism towards Monarchists
General Georges Boulanger
A popular military officer who rallied the people against the Third Republic to fight against them
Lost his nerve and fled in the long run
