Chapter 22: 1848-1871 Flashcards

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Baron Houssmann

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Helped with the reconstruction of Paris under Napoleon III’s reign

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Napoleon III

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Conservative leader that used liberal/nationalistic ideals to gain power
French Leader
Changed political & economic’s

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Crimean War

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A war between Russia, The Ottoman Empire, France and Britain

Poorly planned and poorly fought

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Florence Nightingale

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British woman who insisted on strict sanitary conditions for the British military which saved many lives and made nursing a profession

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“The Charge of the Light Brigade”

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England charged Russia to get their cannon back, only 1/2 the english made it

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Count Camillo di Cavour

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Prime minister under King Victor Emmanuel II
Moderate who favored a constitutional government
Helped expand economics to create the money to raise a large army to make Italy independent
Led the war to get Italy unified

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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A south Italian patriot who raised an army of 1,000 volunteers to fight for unification

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Zollverein

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A German customs union that eliminated tolls for member states to stimulate trade and economic prosperity

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Otto von Bismarck

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New prime minister of Prussia
very conservative
Unintentionally led Germany to unification

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Realpolitik

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“Politics of reality”

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“Iron and Blood”

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A speech given by Bismarck in an attempt to win over the largely Austrian parliament

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The Danish (and Prussian) War

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Denmark attempted to take away two largely german states and went into war with Austria and Prussia and lost

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Austro-Prussian War

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A war to get Prussia sole control over the German confederation
Prussia won

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Franco-Prussian War

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War between France and Prussia egged on by an insulting apology edited by Bismarck the French lost

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The Battle of Sedan

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a whole troop force as well as Napoleon himself are captured leading to the fall of the second empire

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Dual Monarchy

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Two separate states retain individual domestic powers while still staying united under one monarchy

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Ausgleigh

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A compromise between Austria and Hungary that allowed Hungary more domestic rights but still held them under dual monarchy

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Zemstvos

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Local assemblies or moderate forms of self-government ruled by the noble landowners, townspeople, and peasants to provide for public services

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Queen Victoria (England)

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Longest reign in English history

Reflected her country’s national pride

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Benjamin Disraeli

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Tory/Conservative leader

Wanted to win over the newly enfranchised groups by passing another reform act

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William Gladstone

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Whig/Liberal was responsible for many important reforms

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Dominion of Canada

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The creation of a Canadian government with its own constitution

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The Communist Manifesto

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A short treatise written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Karl Marx

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Developed the idea of socialist parties/trade unions

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Friedrich Engels

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Helped finance Marx

Worked in one of his fathers cotton factories so he got a firsthand view of working conditions

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Das Kapital

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A book written by Marx about political economy and the organization of the middle class

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Hegel

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German idealistic philosopher

Marx followed many of his ideals

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The First International

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Organized for the working class interests
Marx helped run this organization
A sort of workers union
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Louis Pasteur

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Created the germ theory of disease that was largely used in application to modern scientific medical practices

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Dmitri Mendeleyev

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Worked in Chemistry

Put the periodic table in order

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Michale Faraday

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Discovered electromagnetic induction that laid the foundation for the use of electricity

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Charles Darwin

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Created the theory of organic evolution according to natural selection

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Joseph Lister

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Developed the antiseptic principle that helped to prevent infections in wounds or during surgeries

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First major breakthrough in medicine for women

accidentally admitted into a med school but proved herself and got and MD and also opened a clinic in NewYork

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August Comte

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Applied science to the study of society

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Realism

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Outer material world

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Gustave Flaubert & Madame Bovary

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Gustave was a realist writer who wrote the book Madame Bovary which portrayed a realistic look at bourgeois lifestyle

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Charles Dickens

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Very popular realist writer who wrote about lower and middle class life in England’s early industrial age

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Franz Liszt

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A child prodigy
Embodied the romantic music theme
Pianist

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Richard Wagner

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Built on Liszt’s achievements he was an opera composer

He wrote dramatic pieces

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Tennyson

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Wrote the poem about the charge of the light brigade