11.52-11.55 Flashcards

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landowners collectively, especially when considered as a class having political or social influence.

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squirearchy

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enclosed open fields and common land in the country, creating legal property rights that was previously considered common

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Enclosed Acts

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to improve conditions for children working in factories. Young children were working very long hours in workplaces where conditions were often terrible.

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Factory Act of 1802

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Wrote the book Wealth of Nations, his theory was that wealth is created through productive labor, and that self-interest motivates people to put their resources to the best use

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Adam Smith

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He thought that the supply of food cannot keep up with the growth of the human population, inevitably resulting in disease, famine, war, and calamity

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Thomas R. Malthus

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English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.

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George Stephenson

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a loom powered by water, steam, or electricity rather than by hand.

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Power Loom

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abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.

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Laissez-faire

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international trade left to its natural course without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions.

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Free trade

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a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution

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Spinning Jenny

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a proposed law of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker

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Ricardo’s iron law of wages

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He invented the flying shuttle

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John Kay

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He invented the steam engine

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Richard Arkwright

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a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world

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James Watt

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a conscious movement that began in England to revive Gothic forms, mostly in the second half of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. Started because of Romanticism

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Gothic revival

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Fairy Tales collected from the common people of Germany, because Nationalism

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Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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John Stuart Mill wrote an essay that said he felt that men and women married to follow customs and that the relation between them was a purely domestic one. By emancipating women, Mill believed, they would be better able to connect on an intellectual level with their husbands, thereby improving relationships.

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The subjection of Women

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an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis)

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Hegelian Dialectic

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American activist who fought for women’s rights

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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advocates free market and laissez-faire economics; civil liberties under the rule of law with especial emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech.

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Liberalism

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German historian who made important contributions to the emergence of modern history writing and is recognised as the father of the “scientific” historical school of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Leopold von Ranke

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European movement that brought about new nationalisms for slavic related peoples, including new written languages and books.

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Slavic Revival

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British Liberal and feminist who advocated for women’s suffrage.

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John Stuart Mill

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Wrote the National System of Political Economy in 1840 and believed in protective tariffs. Got his ideas from America.

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Friedrich List

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Book by historian Francis Palacky that discussed the history of Bohemia.

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History of the Czech Peoples

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Those who wanted to change society from the ground up, deep in reform and democracy.

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Philosophical Radicals

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A leading utopian socialist who believed small communal societies where all worked together. All attempts eventually failed.

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Charles Fourier

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Popular Russian belief that Russia possessed it’s own way of life, and would not be corrupted by that of Europe.

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Slavophilism

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Leader of the philosophical radicals, and promoted utilitarianism.

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Jeremy Bentham

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French journalist and newspaper editor. Wrote the Organization of Work in 1839, an important early socialist writing.

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Louis Blanc

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Polish writer who wrote with Romanticism and nationalistic pride in mind; embodies volksgeist for Poland.

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Adam Michiewicz

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Socialist cotton lord who created a model community for his employees.

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Robert Owen

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British feminist who wrote the Vindication on the Rights of Women in 1792.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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British Parliament member who advocated for conservatism (father of modern conservatism).

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Edmund Burke

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French socialist and feminist, accepted the French revolution and supported other socialists.

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Count de Saint-Simon

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Feminist who made many publications portraying independent women in the 1840s.

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George Sand

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Major Italian organization where secret nationalist societies manifested.

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Carbonari

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Italian nationalist philosopher who joined the Carboni in his youth. Went on to inspire other societies, but was exiled in adulthood.

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Joseph Mazzini

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her views on women’s rights, expressed in her 1851 essay The Enfranchisement of Women and developed further in Stuart Mill’s 1869 essay The Subjection of Women. She supported “equality in all rights, political, civil, and social, with the male citizens of the community”.

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Harriet Taylor