Exam 1 Flashcards
(263 cards)
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What were 3 causes of the French Revolution?
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Absolutism, National Debt, and The Enlightenment
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Believed the world was governed by natural laws.
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Sir Issac Newton
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Argued what is the point of government and believed the only job the government had was to protect your natural rights.
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John Locke
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When a king has absolute power.
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Absolutism
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This means BEFORE the revolution.
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Ancien Regime
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All the members of the catholic church.
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clergy
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Very prestigious, served as the military, they were tax exempted, they controlled lots of land, and had special privileges in the government.
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Nobility
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90 % of the population made this class up. There are subclasses within this class.
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The Third Estate
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“Middle Class People” they had money, and were educated, they were doctors and lawyers. And They are advocating changes bc they like the enlightenment,
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Bourgeoisie
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They were Urban blue collar workers, city dwelling and unskilled they were equal with the peasants
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Sans Cullottes
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Rural people , rent land from nobility taxes fell hardest on them and they were the poorest
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Peasants
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The king of France and first absolute ruler.
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Louis XVI
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Tells Louis they’re in debt, he was his financial advisor.
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Calonne
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A representative body with three chambers.
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The Estates General
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What are the three chambers of the estates general?
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clergy, nobility, and the third estate
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144 men hand picked by Louis.
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The Assembly of Notables
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When members of the third estate came together to write this constitution.
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Tennis Court Oath
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Another name for the Third Estate
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The National Assembly
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The only person not in the NAtional Assembly is ________.
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King Louis
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On July 14th mods stormed the_______ It was a prison for prisoners who pissed off the king but also held all their military stuff.
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Bastille
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When the peasants were striking against the feudal system in the country side. they went from house to house killing the nobility and burning leger books.
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The Great Fear
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Freed all the peasants and ends the feudal system
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Decree of August 4th
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Argues that men of all social classes are equal and free.
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The Declarations of the Rights of Man
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He was a nobleman, he helped write the dec. of the rights of man, when he was a teenager he faught w george washington and he created a constitutional monarchy
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Marquis De Lafayette
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Frances NEW form of government they pass laws and has TWO factions.
Legislative Assembly
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What are the two factions in the Legislative Assembly
Girondis and Jacobins
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These people represented the middle class, were "hands off" when it came to the economy and wanted laws that protected their businesses.
Girondis
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Wanted to protect workers rights (safety) and had 2 major leaders.
Jacobins
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One leader of the Jacobins that everyone loved.
Georges Danton
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Another leader of the Jacobins that everyone hated and had no personality.
Maximilien Danton
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When Louis and Marie Antwonet fled France to Varennes. They were both arrested and the legislative assembly dissolved.
Flight to Varennes
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A new French government without a king. It is a republic and only certain people can vote for their leader.
National Convention
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What was an external threat of the Revolution
War with other countries
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What was an internal threat of the Revolution
Paranoia
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When citizens spied on their neighbors and reported them to the authorities They burned books and censored newspapers.
Committees of Public Safety
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When people didn't agree with Robespierre, they were killed. Danton was killed because of this. Lot's of people were executed Some not even related to the revolution.
Reign of Terror
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This ends the Reign of Terror; Named after the month of November. They dissolved the National Convention and they created the Directory.
Thermidorean Reaction
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November was named ________.
Thermos
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Thermos is greek for _____.
Heat
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A new form of French government, it helps create the War of 1812. It is a republic ruled by directors, they want checks and balances, and wanted to spread the revolution to other countries.
Directory
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What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
The rise of factories, the rise of Urbanization, changes in social structure.
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What were some of the positive effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Cheaper goods, more access to goods, less starvation, overall improvement in people's lives, and improvements in medicine.
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During the industrial revolution, which classes lives were dominated by the factory?
Working Class
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During the Industrial Revolution, did they have job security?
No
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Which gender was highly favored to work in Textile Mills?
Women and girls
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Which gender was highly favored to work in the mines?
Men and boys
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Why did working women not want to get pregnant?
Because they would lose their jobs.
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What were some of the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Tuberculosis, rising alcohol use.
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What were some of the problems with early cities?
Sanitation issues, diseases, crime, and pollution.
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During the industrial revolution, which social class LOSES power?
Aristocracy
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During the industrial revolution, which social class GAINS power?
The middle class.
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What were some of the changes in lifestyle during the industrial revolution?
Women's social status declines and the government slowly begins to get involved.
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What were two things the government to help with safety during the Industrial Revolution?
Making child labor laws, and tried to increase the safety of workers.
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What was a man's image of a woman during the Industrial Revolution?
Skinny and modest.
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What did it mean for a man, if a wife got to stay home and perform wifely duties while he went out and worked?
They had a high status in society.
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During the age of Ideaology, what emerged during the Enlightenment?
Liberalism.
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These people were pro representative government, they believe in a social contract, and that they should have their natural rights protected, they also believe in reason, that the universe is explainable, and free trade.
Liberals
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These people believed that every generation creates a better world.
Liberals
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The belief that God is real and created the world, but he does not interact. (the founding fathers believed in this.)
Deism
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This belief emerged during the French Revolution, they are pro-monarchy, oppose radical change, and argued that radical change leads to anarchy. They are also pro mercantilism.
Conservatism
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He was a conservative thinker, He's anti-revolution, believed hereditary rule was better than representative government.
Edmund Burke
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Who was the first and only Mexican king?
King Augustine I
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What is mercantilism?
Anti-world trade and the government is heavily regulating the economy.
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This was a literary movement, was inherently conservative, emerged as a rejection of the scientific revolution.
Romanticism
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What are some of the factors of Romanticism?
It emphasizes the individual, rejects Enlightenment ideas, emphasizes the beauty of nature, believed the scientific rev. deprives people of their being and creativity, they are all about emotion.
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Artist during the Romantic movement, who tried to show emotion through his art. He has a painting called May.
Francisco Goya
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What is a geist?
A ghost or spirit.
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All romantics believed every nation has a _____.
geist
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These two German brothers wrote German folk tales trying to uncover the German geist.
The brothers Grimm
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This man was a liberal thinker who studied demographics, he argued that the population would grow far beyond the economys doing. And also believed we shouldn't have welfare.
Thomas Malthus
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Who came up with the idea of utilitarinism?
Jeremy Bentham
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What is utilitarinism?
Government laws on the economy.
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What were the ideaologies of the Industrial Revolution?
Chartism, Eutopeian societies, and St. Simonians
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This group of people was founded by Henry Day St. Simon, tried to make a perfect working class and environment using social science.
St. Simonians
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What was chartism?
The first large scale working class movement in the world in Britian during the 1830's. It was very mild, All they wanted was more workers in the government and wanted working class voting rights.
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Who was Charles Fornier?
He created the phalanx and wanted to make farming the center of family structure.
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What is a phalanx?
A model communtiy that rejects the patriarch system and wanted women to have more rights.
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Women had more freedom and power in what type of society?
European
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What is dialectical mercantilism? (dialect)
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, Substructure, Proletariat, Bourgeoisie.
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The dominant culture represented the ______.
thesis
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The antithesis was what?
Emerging challenge
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Synthesis comes from _____ and _____
thesis and antithesis
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What was the substructure?
the economy
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What was the superstructure?
everything else like religion and government
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He was a journalist from Germany and he helped contribute the making of dialectial mercantilism. (dialect)
Karl Marx
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He helped Marx created the dialect.
Frederich Engels
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Believed everything is based on economy, the only thing that moves class is structure.
Karl Marx
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What is capitalism?
Theft
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The value of a product comes from the ______.
workers
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This dominates most of the 1900's, it is when you take pride in your country and can also lead to war.
Nationalism
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What was the first latin american government to become independent?
Hati
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Hati means .....
Mountainous, hilly country
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This was a French sugar colony, that was made up of 90% black slaves, 10% freed slaves and white people.
San Dominque
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Who led the revolution against France?
Toussaint L'ouverture
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Who was put on the throne in Spain? (Napoleon's brother)
Joseph Bonaparte
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Who liberated the NORTH part of Latin America?
Simon Bolivar
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Who liberated the SOUTH part of Latin America?
Jose de San Martin
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What is a creole?
White person born in Latin America
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What was a penninsular?
A white person born in spain.
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Who was more superior out of the creole's and penninsular's?
Penninsular
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When the Greeks revolt against Ottomon and Turkish rule. Great Britian and France help them become independent.
Greek Revolt
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Also known as the "July Revolution", It is the middle class against the monarchy and the middle class tries getting the right to vote.
1830 Revolution in France
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What king gave the middle class voting rights?
King Louis Phillipe
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This revolution happened when France was going through severe economic depression, their government is corrupt, the LOWER class wanted to vote so they over threw Louis Phillipe and it fails to give them power.
Second French Revolution
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Who was the first French emporere that was ELECTED and made himself Emporer for life until 1870 and he was the last French emporer.
Napoleon III
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Under the congress of Vienna, Spain controlled most of Italy (south part) and the rest (north) was under Austria control, and the Italians wanted to be governed and controlled by other Italians. What was this called?
The Unification of Italy
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The Hohenzollerns controlled which country?
Prussia
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The Habsburgs controlled which country?
Austria
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Who was Wilhem I?
The king of Prussia who begins to modernize the Prussia army.
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Who was Otto Von Bismark?
Prussia's priminister who was also a junker.
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This was German for Aristocrat
Junker
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The politics of reality, "Do not commit yourself to one way of thinking"
Realpolitik
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Freed trade treaty with other German countries and Austria doesn't join.
Zollverein
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What was the BADEMS Telegram?
When Wilhelm doctored the telegram to make it look like it's a threat and leaks it to the press.
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Spain and Prussia both try to put ______________________ onto the Spanish throne.
Leopold
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_____ sends a telegram to Wilhelm saying not to let Leopold be king.
Napoleon
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What was the age of Imperialism?
The 2nd wave of colonialism.
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The new colonialism.
Neo-Colonialism
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He was a British economist, wrote imperialism, and believed Britian needed to open new markets.
John Hobson
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He argued that imperialism was the highest form of capitialism.
Vladimir Lenin
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What were some of the characteristics of Nationalism in neo-colonialism?
pride, competition, and imposing your culture on other countries
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What was the civilizing mission?
It was religiously based, the duty of Europeans to elevate their religion to other people. Bringing other people to Christianity.
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Who argued that four races were unequal?
Joseph Comte de Gobineau
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He takes Darwins origin of species and creates social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
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This was used to justify imperialism. "Stronger races conquer other ones"
Social Darwinism
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An English missionary trying to stop the slave trade in Africa.
Sir Thomas Buxton
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Neo Colonial people needed these because they don't have all they need. (rubber)
Raw Materials
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A journalist with the NY Herald who sets out to find Livingstone.
Henry Stanley
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Scottish person trying to help end the slave trade in Africa.
David Livingstone
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Where does Stanley find Livingstone?
Lake Tangayika
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Who creates the Belgian Congo and hires Stanley to help colonize?
King Leopold of Belgium
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What new technology allows Europeans to colonize Africa?
Steamboats, railroads, canals, military, telegraphs, and medical
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What canal was built by the French to go from the red sea to the medeterrainean sea, goes through Egypt.
Suez Canal
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Who STARTED building the Panama canal?
The French
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Why couldn't the French finish building the Panama canal?
Diseases killed the workers, and they were running out of money.
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Who finished building the Panama Canal?
The U.S
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What is Gun Boat Diplomacy?
When you threaten another country with going to war on ships.
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What was a maxim gun?
one of the early machine guns
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What is Quinine?
Early Medicine
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What did India have that everyone wanted?
Spices
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Who established the Mughal Empire?
Zahir al Din Muhammad
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What was Zahir al Din Muhammed's nickname?
Babur the Tiger
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This company ruled partially by government and partially by other investors, they traded in spices and ruled by permission of the crown in India.
English East India Company
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An Indian soldier working in the EEIC. They were muslim and Hindu.
Sepoy
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This revolt happened in 1857, and helped the British colonize India. They killed British officers, and Queen Victoria took away the EEIC.
Sepoy Revolt
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The British governent in India that helped them colonize India.
Raj
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Europeans failed to colonize this country because diseases wiped them out.
Africa
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Portugal colonized these two towns....
Angola and Mozambique
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The Netherlands colonized these colonies and they are currently in South Africa.
Cape Colonies
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This was Leopolds personal army, they were brutal and made up of Africans.
Force Publique
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British JOURNALIST in Africa who was the first person to start investigating the Belgians.
Edmund Morel
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British INVESTIGATOR who investigated the Belgians and took everything away from Leopold.
Roger Casement
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Who wrote the Heart of Darkness and based it on his real life experience as a steamboat captain in the Belgian Congo?
Joseph Conrad
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Which town is colonized by the Dutch East India Company and becomes a nice place in 1652?
Cape Town
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This word means Dutch for farmer.
Boers
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A European (Dutch/French) born in Africa.
Afrikaner
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Dutch for prisoners and these people led the Great Trek
Voortrekkers
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When the Afrikanhers left their colonies because Great Britian outlawed slavery.
The Great Trek
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What were the names of the new colonies the Afrikanhers developed?
Republic of Natal, Orange Free State, and Transvaal.
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This war involved the Dutch Afrikanhers against the British gov. over territories because of the discovery of diamonds and gold. Britain won.
Boer Wars
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The British did this after the Boer Wars in 1910.
The Union of South Africa
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When 14 European countries came together in Germany to carve out Africa but the Africans werent involved also called "The Scramble for Africa"
Berlin Conference
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Who found the diamonds in South Africa?
Cecil John Rhodes
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What was the company Cecil founded?
Da Beers
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Who helped the British take land and colonize it?
Bechuanaland and Rhodesia
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This country was colonized differently and not by the government they colonized economically indirectly through trade.
China
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Before the Manchu Dynasty how was China different?
They had a highly efficient government (bureacracy) , and spent lots of money on public works, Had a favorable balance of trade and developed the canton system, They were isolated from the world and thought they were better than everyone.
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A port city in China where the majority of trade happened.
Canton
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Britian grew this and got the chinese hooked on it.
Opium
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This man went to Chinese ports, and burned the opium crates in hopes to get everyone off of it.
Lin Zexu
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This war involved China and Great Britian, it was done on ships, China lost and Britian decided not to colonize China.
The Opium Wars
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What city in China was given to Great Britian?
Hong Kong
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The British forced China to sign......
Unequal Treaties
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When merchants from other countries operating in a different country do not have to abide by that countries laws.
Extraterritoriality
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What were the causes of the Taiping Rebellion?
Famine and Hunger in the countryside
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Led the Taiping Rebellion, he was influenced by Christians. Believed he was called by God to overthrow the Manchu's. He wanted to get rid of the Confucian order.
Hung Xiuquon
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Where the richest and highly educaated control the land. (China)
Confucian Order
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An attempt to get rid of British influence in China.
The Boxer Rebellion
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Revolution to modernize China
The Revolution of 1911
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Who was the first European in Hawaii and Australia?
Captain James Cook
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In Australia, prisions were being over crowded so they sent them here and established this place ......
New South Whales
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People in New Zealand were called....
Maori
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This was the treaty for the British taking over New Zealand
Treaty of Waitangi
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Russia colonized _____ in the 1700's. It was a multi ethnic area.
Caucasus
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Denmark explorer that Russia hired to explore Siberia
Vitus Bering
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_____ took control of Siberia (Asia)
Russia
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Warning to Europe from America, to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
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To threaten with warships.
Gunboat Diplomacy
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Ruler from France to rule over Mexico was killed by Liberals and coined the term Latin America
Maximillian
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This ship was docked in Cuba to protect American business man and it exploded and Americans claimed that the Spanish bombed them.
USS Maine
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This was added to the Monroe Doctrine and it said that Europeans were invaders if they came to American territory and they would use military arsenol.
Roosevelt Corollary
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This country was very similar to China, overwhelmingly rural, not industrialized and was also isolated.
Japan
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Ruled by regional military leaders
Diamyo
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Japanese warriors.
Samuri
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Americans made Japan sign......
unequaltreaties
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When the government modernizes Western ideas
Meiji Restoration
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The japan do/ do not abide by Americas unequal treaties
do not
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Japans legislative body
Diet
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Japans first target as a redeveloped country is ______
China and Korea
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China controls _____
Korea
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When China and Japan go to war over Korea
Sino Japanese War
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The age of anxiety comes from ______
a poem
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W.H Auden wrote
The Age of Anxiety
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This revolution made lots of people happy and taught that the world was predictable.
Scientific Revolution
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Charles Darwins book that said humans come from Apes and created anxiety in the church.
The Descent of Man
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Who took Darwin's ideas?
Herbert Spencer
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Means at birth you have a blank slate and that all human beings are a blank canvas.
Tabula Rasa
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Discovered inherit traits
Gregor Medel
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Nature is _____.
unfair
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Discovered genetic mutations.
Hugo Devries
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Tried to alter genetics to create a master race. Soviet Scientist
TD Lysenko
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The Father of psychoanalyctics and is obsessed with the subconscious mind.
Sigmund Freud
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When your unconscious is driven by pleasure it is called
ID
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When your consciousness is driven by reality it is called
Ego
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This regulates both set of values , from your ID and Ego
Superego
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Who discovered radioactivity?
Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie
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What the radioactive thing they discovered was called
Radium Chloride
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These people painted radium on the dials of watches, began losing teeth and jaws and they all died before they were 30.
Radium girls
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Radium water
Rathidor
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Socialite that was convinced that drinking rathidor was good for you. and lost his jaw a year later.
Eben Byers
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Newton believed space is _____ and _____
eternal and unchanging
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Einstein believed space is _____ and ____
constantly changing and not predictable
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Theory that the closer you are to a gravitational item the slower time goes by.
Gravitational Time Dialation
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What is Existentialism?
"What is the meaning of life?" Don't care about anything
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What was "Waitinf for Godot"?
a play/ book where the main character never shows up
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This was based on Freud's idea of the subconscious.
Surrealism
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Where the British Navy defeats the French Navy
The Battle of Traflagar
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The Industrial Revolution happens in ______ FIRST
England
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Invented the spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
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Invented the steam engine
Thomas Newcomen
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first to invent the railroad
Richard Treuithick
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developed a system to burn off the impurities in iron
Henry Cort
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Marquis de Jouffrey d’abbans invented the first steamboat called the .......
Pyroscaphe
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What is the name of the ship in the Thames where Marlow tells his story? (Heart of Darkness book)
Nellie
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On what river did Marlow captain a steamship for the Company? (Heart of Darkness book)
Congo
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What inspired Marlow to go to Africa? (<3 book)
A map
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How did Marlow get his job with the Belgian Company?
His Aunt
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Why was the Company eager to send Marlow to Africa?
His predeccesor died.
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Where does Marlow believe the general manager’s authority comes from?
Resistence to tropical disease
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What do the natives do when a grass shed housing trade goods burns down?
Dance
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Who has a painting of a blindfolded woman holding a lighted torch in his quarters?
The brickmaker
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What is the name of the group of white men led by the general manager’s uncle?
Belgian Mining Corporation
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What item from the coast does Marlow tell the brickmaker that he needs to repair the steamer?
Rivets
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Who does Marlow overhear having a conversation one night while he is lying on the deck of the wrecked steamer?
General Manager and his uncle
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What does the general manager’s uncle imply may kill Kurtz?
Tropical Disease
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How did the clerk describe Kurtz’s condition to the general manager when he delivered Kurtz’s load of ivory?
ill and not recovered
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What do the men aboard the steamer hear at night on their journey to Kurtz’s station?
drums
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Where does the Eldorado Expedition go when they leave the Central Station?
The wildnernes
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What disturbs Marlow the most about the way Kurtz talks about his Intended, ivory, the Inner Station, and the river?
His air of possesion
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Whom does Marlow blame for the death of the African helmsman?
The African Helmsman
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How does Marlow dispose of the African helmsman’s body?
He throws it overboard
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Who beckons to the steamer from the shore at the Inner Station when they arrive?
The Russian Trader
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When Marlow arrives at the Inner Station, what explanation does the Russian trader give for the natives attacking the steamer?
Preventing Kurtz's departure
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What does Kurtz’s African mistress do when she sees Kurtz being brought aboard the steamer?
Stares and then leaves
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What does Marlow say to completely alienate himself from the general manager and the rest of the Company’s functionaries?
He calls Kurtz remarkable
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According to the Russian trader, who really ordered the attack on the steamer?
Kurtz
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Before leaving in a canoe, which of these items does the Russian trader not ask Marlow for?
food
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After rushing at Kurtz’s stretcher with a piercing cry, why do the natives withdraw and allow the party to pass?
Kurtz talks with them
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Who nurses Marlow back to health once he returns to Europe?
His Aunt
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According to his cousin, Kurtz’s talent was ___?
music
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What does Kurtz’s journalist colleague believe were Kurtz’s true skills?
popular or extremist politics
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When Marlow visits Kurtz’s Intended and finds her still in mourning, how long has it been since Kurtz’s death?
Over a year
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Marlow tell Kurtz’s Intended that Kurtz’s last words were ___?
her name
