Ch 23 Flashcards
gold standard
value of a currency was defined in terms of gold, could be exchanged
Second Industrial Revolution
steel,chemicals,electricity,oil
Henry Bessemer-Bessemer Process
created steel cheaply and mass quantities
Gottlieb Daimler
modern internal combustion engine
Henry Ford
car accessible to masses; assembly line
3 major oil suppliers
Standard Oil of US; Brit. Shell Oil; Royal Dutch Petroleum
word coined at this time
unemployment
W.H. Smith
owner of railway newsstands (part of new middle class=new money)
Henri Fournier
won 1901 Paris to Berlin Motor Car Race
petite bourgeoisie (lower middle c)
white collar workers; working class origins;belong to unions; sought distance b/w them and lower-class lifestyle
Baron Georges Haussmann (Sewer guy)
Napoleon III; redesigned Paris=cleaner and more organized; oversaw vast urban reconstruction program
métro
subway system put in
1889 Eiffel Tower
orig. temporary structure for international trade exposition of 1889
Sacré Cœur
built Roman Catholic Church
Cholera
touched all classes; led to sanitary reforms
Louis René Villermé, Edwin Chadwick, Rudolf Virchow
argued for everyone to get clean
Melun Act of 1851 (France)
concern for public health
Louis Pasteur, Robert Kock, Joseph Lister
science behind the clean; inc public concern about cleanliness
A.V. Huber (Ger)
housing reforms
Jules Simon
good housing=good family life=stronger patriotic feeling
Married Woman’s Property Act (Brit)
allowed women to own property by self
“female job”
school teaching at elementary level
putting-out system
manufacturer own fabric not made in factory, put it out for tailoring; sweatshops
Economic vulnerability of women (why Mercy made)
led to women going into prostitution b/c they couldn’t live on their wages
fewer prostitutes in manufacturing towns
b/c steady employment available and community life=more stable
Bon Marché
was made; department store
Mary Wollstonecraft
the vindication of Rights of women; women’s rights=right of men
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor
lib freedom women: the Subjection of Women-utility+ efficiency expose human+social waste b/c=inferior role women have
Millicent Fawcett
led moderate National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies-parl. give women right to vote if respon.
Henry Fawcett (Harr.’s hubby)
supported her; Liberal Party cabinet minister and economist-supported feminism
Emmeline Pankhurst (arrested)
radical branch of Brit. feminists
E.P.’S daughters-Christabel and Sylvia
EP. C, S, founded Women’s Social and Political Union- violent tactics men wouldn’t listen
suffragettes ‘allow’
lobbied publicly and privately to extend women right to vote
Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (mean)
imprisoned demonstrators+ force-fed ones who went on hunger strikes in jail
1918
year women got right to vote
Hubertine Auclert (France)
women’s right to vote=she stood alone
National Council of French Women
upper-class-women; NOT support right for women
Marie Mauguet
Roman Catholic; support right vote
French Chamber of Deputies
passed bill granting vote women 1919; lost; didn’t get right=after WWII
Union of German Women’s Organizations
supported right vote; main concern improve w’s social cond., inc edu., extending their right protections
German Social Democratic Party
support women suffrage
Jews lib (sorta)
Joseph II-put Jews under empire under same laws as Christians; National Assembly-recognized Jews as French citizens; full citiz. in Ger, Italy and Low Counties
pogroms
org. riots against Jewish neighborhoods and villages
Lionel Rothschild (Jew)
head of London branch bank; Jews got blamed for hard times
anti-semitism
hatred of Jews
Zionism
want own Jewish homeland
Trade Unionism
gov extended legal protections to unions; unions= legal
First International (trade union)
had socialists, anarchists, Polish nationals; trade union (beginning Communism)
Marxism
emerged as single most imp strand socialism
Keir Hardie
1st independent working man elect to Parliament
Taff Vale Decision
remove legal protection on union funds
Fabian Society
most influential socialist group ; tried to do major socialist reform
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Georges Bernard Shaw
Fabians;problems of ind,expansion of ownership+state direction prod. solved gradually, peacefully, and democratically
Joseph Chamberlain
unsuccessful to change tax laws
Sir Henry Campbell
lib party
National Insurance Act 1911
provided unemployment benefits+health care
Parliament Act 1911
allow Commons override legislative veto of upper chamber
Jean Jaurès and Jules Guesde
two maj factions socialism (France)
Je-work w/ Radical ministers to get what they want
G-disagreed
2nd International
unify various national socialists
opportunism
participation by socialists in cabinet
Générale du Travail
improve worker conditions->direct action
syndicalism
unite workers and gain them power
Georges Soral
Reflections on Violence; syndicalism
Wilhelm Liebknecht+ August Bebel
Marxists opposed reformist policies
Emperor William II
anti socialism expire->build up new pol. support among working class
Eduard Bernstein
Evolutionary Socialism;conditions didn’t meet Marxist’s expectations
Revisionism
revised Marxism to fit times
Count Sergei Witte (SNow)
led Russia into industrial age
Russia and trade unions
illegal
mir
villages
kulaks
peasant farmers
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
1st Communist guy:Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks
majority; Lenin’s group
Menshiviks
minority; moderate democratic revolutionary
Bloody Sunday
kill thousands; Winter Palace; bad move czar=people no longer trust
soviets
controlled St. Petersburg; worker’s union
October Manifesto
promised Russia constitutional monarchy
Duma
rep body; w/ 2 chambers; later dissolved
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin
got power; Russia’s greatest love machine; “heal” people; real creep