Chapter 23 Flashcards
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Proto-industrialization
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- Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe
- workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban merchants
- prelude to industrial revolution
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Population Revolution
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- Huge growth in population in Western Europe beginning about 1730
- prelude to industrial revolution
- population of France increased 50%, England and Prussia 100%
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American Revolution
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- Rebellion of English American colonies along Atlantic seaboard between 1775 and 1783
- resulted in independence and for former British colonies and eventual formation of United States of America
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French Revolution
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- Revolution in France between 1789 and 1800
- resulted in overthrow of bourbon monarchy and old regimes
- ended with establishment of French empire under Napoleon Bonaparte
- source of many liberal movements and constitutions in Europe
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Louis XVI
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-Bourbon monarch of France who was executed during the radical phase of the French Revolution
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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- Adopted during the liberal phase of the French Revolution (1789)
- stated the fundamental equality of all French citizens
- later became a political source for other liberal movements
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Guillotine
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- Introduced as a method of humane execution
- utilized to execute thousands during the most radical phase of the French Revolution known as the Reign of Terror
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Maximilian Robespierre
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- Leader of the radical phase of the French Revolution
- sponsored the Reign of Terror
- he was arrested and guillotined
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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- Rose within the French army during the French Revolution
- eventually became general
- led a coupe that ended the French Revolution
- established French empire under his rule
- defeated and exiled in 1815
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Congress of Vienna
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-Meeting in the aftermath of Napoleonic Wars (1815) to restore political stability in Europe and settle diplomatic disputes
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Liberalism
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- Political viewpoint with origins in Western Europe during the 19th century
- stressed limited state interference in individual life, representation of propertied people in government
- urged importance of constitutional rule and parliaments
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Radicals
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- Political viewpoint with origins in Western Europe during the 19th century
- advocated broader voting rights than liberals
- in some cases advocated outright democracy
- urged reforms in favor of the lower classes
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Socialism
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- Political movement with origins in Western Europe during the 19th century
- urged an attack on private property in the name of equality
- wanted state control of means of production, end to capitalist exploitation of the working man
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Nationalism
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- Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts
- an extreme of this»_space; marked by superiority over other countries
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Greek Revolution
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- Rebellion in Greece against the Ottoman Empire in 1820
- key step in gradually dismantling the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans
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French Revolution of 1830
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- Installed a different king
- produced a somewhat more liberal monarchy
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Belgian Revolution of 1830
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-Produced a liberal regime and a newly independent nation
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Reform Bill of 1832
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- A response to popular agitation
- gave the parliamentary vote to most middle-class men
- did not extend the vote to workers and led to further political protest
- took place in England
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James Watt
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- Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer
- renowned for his improvements in steam engine technology
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Factory system
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- A method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the industrial revolution
- based on the concentration of industry into specialized and often large establishments
- replaced the domestic system
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French Revolution of 1848
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- Caused by popular discontent with Louis Phillipe
- radical republicans managed to get provisional government to pass socialist programs
- military turned against the lower class agitators
- the National Workshop only provided more problems and discontent
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Revolutions of 1848
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- Liberal protesters rose up against the conservative establishment
- moderate liberals pushed actively for extension of suffrage through their “banquet campaign”
- Louis-Phillippe attempted reform
- overthrow of monarchy led to protest
- these revolutions didn’t get Europe anywhere, nothing came of them
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Louis Pasteur
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- Discoverer of germs
- discovery led to more conscientious sanitary regulation by 1880s
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Benjamin Disraeli
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- Leading conservative political figure in Britain in the second half of the 19th century
- took initiative of granting vote to working-class males in 1867
- typical of conservative politician making has of popular politics
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Camillo Di Cavour
- Architect of Italian unification in 1858
- formed an alliance with France to attack Austrian control of northern Italy
- resulted in creation of constitutional monarchy under Piedmontese king
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Otto von Bismarck
- Conservative prime minister of Prussia
- architect of German unification under Prussian king in 1870
- utilized liberal reforms to attract support for conservative causes
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American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Fought from 1861 to 1865
- first application of industrial revolution to warfare
- resulted in abolition of slavery in the United States and reunification of north and south
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Social question
- Issues relating to repressed classes in Western Europe during the industrial revolution, particularly workers and women
- became more critical than constitutional issues after 1870
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Karl Marx
- German socialist of the mid-19th century
- blasted earlier socialist movements as utopian
- saw history as defined by class struggle between groups out of power and those controlling the means of production
- preached necessity of social revolution to create proletarian dictatorship
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Revisionism
- Socialist movements that at lest tacitly disavowed Marxist revolutionary doctrine
- believed social success could be achieved gradually through political institutions
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Feminist movements
- Sought various legal and economic gains for women, including equal access to professions and higher education
- came to concentrate on right to vote
- won support particularly from middle-class women
- active in Western Europe at the end of the 19th century
- revived in light of other issues in the 1960s
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Mass leisure culture
- An aspect of the later industrial revolution
| - based on newspapers, music halls, popular theater, vacation trips, and team sports
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Charles Darwin
- Biologist who developed theory of evolution of species (1859)
- argued that all living species evolved into their present form through the ability to adapt in a struggle for survival
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Albert Einstein
- Developed mathematical theories to explain the behavior of planetary motion and the movement of electrical particles
- after 1900 issued theory of relativity
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Sigmund Freud
- Viennese physician (19th-20th centuries)
- developed theories of the working of the human subconscious
- argued that behavior is determined by impulses
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Romanticism
- Artistic and literary movement of the 19th century in Europe
- held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature
- sought to portray passions, not calm reflections
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American exceptionalism
- The theory that the United States is qualitatively different from other nation states
- based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, republicanism, populism, and laissez-faire
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Triple Alliance
- Alliance among Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy at the end of the 19th century
- part of European alliance system and balance of power prior to World War I
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Triple Entente
- Alliance among Britain, Russia, and France at the outset of the 20th century
- part of European alliance system and balance of power prior to World War I
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Balkan nationalism
- Movements to create independent nations within the Balkan possessions of the Ottoman Empire
- provoked a series of crises within the European alliance system
- eventually led to World War I
