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Chapter 9 Test Flashcards

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Entrepreneurs

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Interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make a profit.

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Capital

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Ready supply of money

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Cottage Industry

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Tasks done by individuals (two-step process) in rural homes to produce cotton

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Puddling

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Coke (from coal) was used to burn away impurities in crude iron, known as pig iron, to produce iron of high quality.

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Industrial Capitalism

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Economic system based on industrial production; cause of the production of a industrial middle class.

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Socialism

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System in which society, usually in the form of a government, owns and controls some means of production, such as factories or utilities.

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Conservatism

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Political philosophy based on tradition and social stability.

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Principle of intervention

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Great powers had the right to send armies into countries where there are revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs.

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Liberalism

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Political philosophy based largely on enlightenment principles, held that people should be as free as possible from government restraint (Locke).

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Universal male suffrage

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All adult men could vote

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Militarism

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Reliance on military strength.

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Kaiser

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Emperor

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Plebiscite

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Popular vote

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Emancipation edict

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Edict that frees the serfs

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Abolitionism

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A movement to end slavery.

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Secede

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A withdrawal

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Romanticism

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Reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment.

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Conscription

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A military draft

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Mobilization

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Process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war.

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Propaganda

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Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

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Trench warfare

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Trenches in the English Channel that kept both sides of the war virtually in the same position for four years

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War of attrition

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War based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses.

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Soviets

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Councils composed of representatives from the workers and the soldiers.

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War communism

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Used to ensure regular supplies for the Red Army.

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Armistice

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A truce; an agreement to end the fighting.

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Reparations

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Vast German payments to cover the costs of war

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Mandates

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Official name for the acquisitions of countries taking control of others

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Date of industrial revolution

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1780s; several decades to spread to other Western nations

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Cause of increase in food supply during industrial revolution.

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Farmland expansion, good weather, improved transportation, and new crops

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Effect of food increase in industrial revolution

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Prices are lowered and there is a population growth

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Significance of West Indies

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English obtain capital and invest

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English agricultural revolution

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Invest in own systems to make more capital

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The glorious revolution date

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1688

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The glorious revolution

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England creates capitalist system and dominate world trade

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The Dutch

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Create all capital ideas that England learn and steal trade.

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English government

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Protects people’s property (Locke), fine tunes capitalist system

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Dissenters

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Fine tunes capitalism

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Infrastructural development

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Good national and regional banking system with modern educational system

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Scottish whiskey

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Creates Industrial Age: functioning factories, unions (bourgeois/proletariat), consumerism and a world-wide market

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The communist manifesto

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By Marx and Engels in 1848

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Creation of Germany

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1871

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William 1 of Prussia

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(1815-98), wants “German” unity

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Otto Von Bismarck

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(1815-98), prime minister (chancellor 1862), wants to unite Germany

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Schleswig-Holstein 1863

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Denmark attempts to incorporate area but ethnic Germans live there and Prussia claims it as an invasion.

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Danish war

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(1864), Germans convince Austria to help them dominate Danish.

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Bismarck’s master plan

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Attempts to look like the victim/sets up the Austrians

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Austrian war

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(1866) tells Prussian troops to tempt Austria and Austria attacks

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6 week war

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Austria vs Prussia (1866). Austria wins

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North German Comfederation

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(1867) local parliaments but one army, king, and chancellor

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Aggressor/victim

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Austrians/Germany

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Ems Telegram

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Prussia attacked by France. North and South unite while Austria stays out of war

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Franco-Prussian war

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(1870-1971) France led by Napoleon III. Prussia wins and Germany founded in 1871

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William I

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Humiliates France with crowning in Versailles

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War to Germany

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War is good. Authoritarian government beats representative government

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Military might

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Manages to get Germany unity

Contemporary World History (4 decks)

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