Multiple Choice Flashcards

(56 cards)

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Laissez-faire

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People do as they please

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Bentham and Mill

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Believed working conditions should be improved. Favours capitalist system

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3
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Who opposed Darwin’s theory of evolution

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Religious leaders including Samuel wilberforce

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4
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Social Darwinism introduced by

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Herbert spencer

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5
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Behavioural experiments with dogs

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Ivan Pavlov

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Romantic composers

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Beethoven, Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Giuseppe Verdi

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Impressionist painters

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Monet, Pierre Renoir, Edgar degas

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Universal male sufferage

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Gave all men the right to vote

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9
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Statue of westminster

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Made Canada equal with Britain

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10
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Who made upper and lower canada unite?

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Lord Durham

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Which war was humiliating for Napoleon III?

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Franco-Prussian War

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12
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Traitor in Dreyfus affair?

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Esterhazy

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13
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Where did Jefferson buy Louisiana from?

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France

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14
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Where did USA buy Texas from?

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Mexico

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15
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NAACP

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National association for the advancement of coloured people

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16
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Which amendment gave all men right to vote

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15th amendment

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17
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Philosophe

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French word meaning philosopher

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18
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Absolute monarch

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Ruler who has absolute power over government and people

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19
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Who was the first English prime minister

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Robert Walpole

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20
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Who helped defeat British in American Revolution

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France

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21
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Where was the articles of confederation revived?

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Philadelphia

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22
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Which estate did clergy belong in?

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Higher clergy - 1st estate

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Who is bourgeoisie?

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Successful merchants, educated lawyers, small store keepers (third estate)

24
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Purpose of Napoleons Continental system?

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To take down/invade Britain

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Largest part of third estate?
Commoners
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What force spread through Europe
Nationalism
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Tennis court oath
Promise to write a constitution
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3rd estate problems?
Had to pay taxes, rents and tithe.
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Napoleons greatest achievement
Napoleonic code
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Monopoly
Total control over market for ONE product
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Vertical integration
Corporation that controls MANY industries that contribute to one product
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Who dominated Congress of Vienna?
Conservatives
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Fastest transportation in 18th cent.?
Trains
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Industrial revolution inventions in Britain
Crop advancements, steam engine, iron/coal,
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Voltaire thinks best ruler is whom?
Enlightened monarch
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Rousseau thinks society does what?
Corrupts people
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Encyclopedia was mostly about what?
???
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Why did British make USA angry?
Taxes
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USA declaration of independence had what natural rights?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
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USA constitution had what branches?
Legislature- Congress and senate, executive- the president, and a judiciary - system of national courts
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Physiocrat
Believed in economic theory - nations wealth comes from the land agricultural value
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Reign of terror leader?
Robespierre
43
Industries benefitting from auto industry
Iron and coal
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Factory owners didn't want unions
Pay more, better environment, they would make less
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Italian who attempted to unite Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini
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Who conquered Two Sicilies?
Garibaldi and Red Shirts
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Triple alliance
Germany, Austria and Hungary
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Who ruled Lombardy and Venetia befit Italy
Austria
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What countries monarch was named ruler of two Sicilies
Spain
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What was Prussias main idea of focus
Warfare and military
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Bismarcks main Idea
Blood and iron
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Who led Germany to Austria
Bismarck
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Dual monarchy formed where
Austria - Hungary
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Final act by Nicolas II
Bloody Sunday
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National Assembly by Nicholas II
Duma
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Where was Germany named an empire
Versailles