Ch. 23 The Growth of Industrial Prosperity Flashcards
Gottlieb Daimler
was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf, in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed petrol engine. Wikipedia
Gugliemo Marconi
engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi’s law and a radio telegraph system.
Contagious diseases acts
allowed police officers to arrest prostitutes in certain ports and army towns, and the women were then subjected to compulsory checks for venereal disease. If a woman was declared to be infected, she would be confined in what was known as a Lock Hospital until “cured”. The original act was only lawful in a few selected naval ports and army towns, but by 1869 the acts had been extended to be i
Wilhelm liebknencht
Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht was a German social democrat and one of the principal founders of the SPD. Social Democratic Party
August bevel
Bebel became the leading figure of the social democratic movement in Germany and from 1892 until his death served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
August bebel
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May Day
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Eduard Bernstein
Eduard Bernstein was a German social democratic political theorist and politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party, and the founder of evolutionary socialism, social democracy and revisionism. Wikipedia
Michael Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism, and one of the principal founders of the “social anarchist” tradition. Wikipedia
Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies often defined as self-governed voluntary institutions, but that several authors have defined as more specific institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations. Anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful.
Public health act
Its purpose was to combat filthy urban living conditions, which caused various public health threats, including the spread of many diseases such as cholera and typhus. Reformers wanted to resolve sanitary problems, because sewage was flowing down the street daily, including the presence of sewage in living quarters.
Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Wikipedia
Reform act
, the Act was designed to “take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament”. Before the reform, most members nominally re
Irish home rule
The Irish Home Rule movement articulated a longstanding Irish desire for self-government within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The movement drew upon a legacy of patriotic thought that dated back at least to the late 17th century.[1] Home Rule held out the promise of a new constitutional order
The commune
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