World History Chapter 19 Analysis – Flashcards
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Industrial Revolution
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In the eighteenth century, this revolution made Great Britain the first and wealthiest industrialized nation. Spread to Europe and North America.
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Great Britain
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leader in the production of cotton, coal and iron
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Locomotives
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caused train tracker to be placed all over Great Britain lessening the cost of shipping goods
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Train Tracks in the United States
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allowed manufactured goods to be shipped from the Northeast to across the country
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Effects of the Industrial Revolution
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City population increased and industrial middle class emerged
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Industrial Working Class
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dealt with bad working conditions, started socialism
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socialism
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movement working to improve working conditions through gov control
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enclosure movement
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in Great Britain during the 1700s, the Parliamentary decree that allowed fencing off of common lands, forcing many peasants to move to town
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capital
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money available for investment
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entrepreneurs
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people interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make profits
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cottage industry
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a method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes
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puddling
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process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron
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industrial capitalism
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an economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing
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conservatism
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a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, favoring obedience to political authority and organized religion
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principle of intervention
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idea that great powers have the right to send armies into countries where there are revolutions to restore legitimate goverments
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liberalism
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a political philosophy originally based largely on Enlightenment principles, holding that people should be as free as possible from gov restraint and that civil liberties should be guaranteed in a written document such as the Bill of Rights.
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universal male suffrage
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the right of all males to vote in elections
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multinational state
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a state in which people of many nationalities live
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militarism
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reliance on military strength
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kaiser
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german for caesar, the title of the emperors of the Second German Empire
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plebiscite
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popular vote
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emancipation
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the act of setting free
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abolitionism
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a movement to end slavery
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secede
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withdraw
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romanticism
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an intellectual movement that emrged at the end of the 18th century in reaction to the ideas of the enlightenment; it stressed feelings, e motion, and imagination as sources of knowing
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secularization
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indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration
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organic evolution
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the principle set fourth by Charles Darwin that every plant of animal has evolved or changed over a long period of time from simpler forms to more complex.
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natural selection
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the principle set forth by Charles Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the enviroment than others
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realism
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mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower-and middle class life as it actually was
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The Crimean War
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destroyed the concert of Europe
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Czar Alexander III
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freed the serfs and instituted other reforms, he was assassinated
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Canada
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won its independance from Britain
