Unit 2 Flashcards by Kurt Abulencia

Part 1 Definition
What is Classical Liberalism?

Classical Liberalism: Stresses the importance of human rationality

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What are some values of Classical Liberalism?

Political freedom
Free market economy (Invisible Hand principle)
Protection of civil liberties
Humans are reasonable and make rational decisions
Individual rights and freedoms exercised in the individual’s self interest

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Part 1 Definition
What is Mercantilism?

Mercantilism:
- Increase a nation’s wealth by government regulation
- Strictly controls trade and production

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Methods of Assimilation used by Europeans

Numbered Treaties: Promised land
Residential School
Indian Act: Law giving Indian Status

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Part 1 Definition
What is Imposition?

Imposition: Forcing something on people

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Examples of Resisting Liberalism

White Paper: Removed the Indian Act
Red Paper: Aimed to protect relationship between First Nations
Oka Crisis
Wet’suwet’en: A natural gas pipeline was going under their land so they protest and had a blockade

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Part 2 Definition
What is Laissez-Faire?

Laissez-Faire: Leaving alone.
An economy where the government does not interfere.

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What did John Stuart Mill say?

He HATED the Industrial Revolution and how it treated the workers
Harm Principle: You can have rights as long as it doesn’t interfere with someone else having their rights

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Part 2 Definition
What are the Physiocrats?

Physiocrats: French philosophers who hated mercantilism and advocated/made Free market economy (Laissez-Faire)

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What are Modern Liberalism?

Modern Liberalism: Creating equality of opportunity for all individuals.
Government intervenes

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Part 3 Definition
What is Luddites?

Luddites: Opposes tech or industrial things

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Part 3 Definition
What is Suffragettes?

Suffragettes: Woman seeking the right to vote through protest.

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Part 3 Definition
What is Feminism?

Feminism: Belief that men and women are to be treated equally in all respects
Mary Wollstonecraft:
- Early feminist, argued education would make women better wives but also equals of men

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Part 3 Definition
What is Separate Spheres?

Separate Spheres: Women were inferior to men, not considered persons.

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First Wave Feminism

Focused on gaining rights

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Second Wave Feminism

Focused on issues

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Third Wave Feminism

Embracing diversity and different classes

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Part 3 Definition
What is Affirmative Action?

Affirmative Action: Hiring certain groups where back then they weren’t allowed

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Part 3 Definition
What is Labour Standards?

Safe working conditions
Clean environment
Unions
Freedom of discrimination

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Part 4 Definition
What is Socialism?

Socialism: Economic system based on collective ownership of the means of production

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Part 4
What did Robert Owen do and believed in?

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Everyone education
Safe working conditions
Rewarded for good behaviour
Leisure
People aren’t born bad but they are shaped by their environment
Created New Harmony

Part 4
What is New Harmony?

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A self supporting city made by Robert Owen.
Machines run the place and people just learn and relax.
Trading only when you have extra money

Part 4
What was Karl Marx’s idea?

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Hates capitalism, wants to overthrow it using violence.

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Marxist Movements

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Marxism, his theories put into an ideology
Socialism, peaceful change
Communism, violent change
Leninism, small group of prof revolutionaries
Stalinism, everyone being revolution. (promotes communism)

Part 4 Definition What is Democratic Socialism?

Democratic Socialism: Peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism. Sharing wealth.

Part 4 Definition What is Welfare Capitalism?

Welfare Capitalism: Capitalism but just being nice to the employees, (giving benefits).

Part 4 What did Theodore Roosevelt do?

- Helped people during the Great Depression - Made the New Deal - Progressive

Part 4 What is Keynesian Economics?

- Looked at the Great Depression - Learned that when money gets tight, rich people will hoard their money which causes the cycles to get worst. - Said government should regulate demand.

Part 4 What is the New Deal?

- Made many agencies which opened jobs and got people working - Created bank insurance.

Part 5 Definition What is Oligarchies?

Oligarchies: Ruled by the few (power to a small segment of society)

Part 5 Definition What is a One Party State?

One Party State: Only one party forms the government.

Part 5 Definition What is a Military Dictatorship/Junta?

Military Dictatorship/Junta: Political power resides in the military.

Part 5 Definition What is a totalitarianism?

Totalitarianism: That seeks complete control in every aspect of the citizens lives.

Part 5 What are the characteristics of totalitarianism?

- Control and Censorship of media - Indoctrination (shaping kids mindsets) - Secret Police - Propaganda

Part 5 What is the difference between totalitarianism vs authoritarianism?

- Totalitarian: Total control over the lives and freedoms of citizens - Authoritarian: Give certain freedom.

Part 5 Definition What is Illiberalism?

Illiberalism: Opposing liberalism. Can be found during times of crisis. Example: War Measures Act

Part 5 Techniques of Dictatorship

1. Vision: what country could be 2. Propaganda: Exaggeration of information to rally support. 3. Controlled Participation: Controlling behavior. (North Korea) 4. Public Discontent: Scapegoating/someone to blame. (Jews) 5. Terror 6. Pageantry and Ceremony: Using symbols (swastika)

Part 6 Short History of Russia

- Serfs were unwilling to be at the bottom - Alexander II wanted to change Russia so he freed the Serfs. - But the industrial revolution made them demanding more and killed him - Alexander III took away all the freedoms and when he died people were ready to revolt. - Nicholas II was not competent

Part 6 What are the two Marxist Groups?

- Mensheviks: Party with many people. Wanted to educated people about democratic regime. - Bolsheviks: Small party with Prof. revolutionaries. Abrupt overthrow.

Part 3 Definition What are the Chartists?

Chartists: Working class focused on reform.

Part 5 Definition What is Egalitarianism?

Egalitarianism: Everyone to be equal

Part 4 Definition What is Utopian Socialism?

Utopian Socialism: Idealistic rather than pragmatic

Part 4 Definition What is the Welfare State?

Welfare State: Government providing needs through social programs: Examples: Education, Old Age Pension

Part 4 What is bourgeoisie and proletariat?

- Bourgeoisie: Capitalist - Proletariat: Workers Proletariat would be tired of the exploitation and would rise up against the bourgeoisie.

Part 6 What are the Soviet Values?

- Egalitarianism - Collectivism - Public Ownership - Self Sacrifice (not having everything you want) - Classless Society

Part 6 Definition What is Facism?

Facism: Far Right, militaristic nationalism. Political idea where government controls everything.

What is Eugenics?

- Improvement of humans through selective breeding or genocide.

Part 6 Definition What is a Centrally Planned Economy?

Centrally Planned Economy: Market forces are planned.

Part 6 Definition What is Collectivization?

- Turning individuals and into labor and collective farms.

Part 6 Definition What is the Great Purge?

- Killing Political Opponents - Killing people in the Army - Removing the church - Russians sent to the Gulag ( camps)

Part 6 What is the difference between Fasicm VS Communism. What are some similarities?

- Fasicm focuses on national/racial supremacy, strict hierarchy while communism is equal and have no classes. They are similarity in being oppressive.

Unit 2 Flashcards

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