History year 1 Flashcards
how did France rule
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using direct rule over colonies and replacing local rulers, believing everyone in the territory as french
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how did Britain rule
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indirect rule over colines, allowed to keep local laws except for laws that were deemed to destructive(slavery)
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how did Belgium rule
private imperialism, allowed King Leopold to have a complete rule with no checks or balances
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name 1 unpopular British policies in India(1)
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banned sutte (burning of widows after their husbands died)
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name 1 unpopular British policies in India(sucsession)
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passed the doctrine of lapse which meant that if there was no Indian heir to a throne a British person would step in.
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name 1 unpopular British policies in India(3)
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westernization, especially religion was unpopular
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what was the inciting cause of the Indian mutiny
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a rumor started that the musket cartridges were lined with pork and beef
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what were the 4 motives for European imperalism
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Religious,economic, geopolitical and cultural.
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why did Europe think they needed religion to be spread
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they felt they needed to stop the evils the people were doing and save their souls
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why did Europe think it needed Geopolitical power
becuase you wanted to have as many colonies as your rival counties (important example Britan making sure they held control of the Suez canal)
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why did Europe think they needed Economic control over african
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colonies produced materials and food that couldn’t be found in Europe
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why did Europe think they needed cultural imperialism
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1 idea of the white man’s burden to take over
2 acquisition of colony creates patriotism
3 to improve the life of Africans
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why did the US intervine in Cuba
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1 Cuban immigrants wanted it
2 sympthy for colonized people
3 Us investments
4 humanitarian concearns
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why did Spain lose the war
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they were not prepared for fighting and the US had better ships
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what did spain give up after the loss
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controll of puerto rico, cuba and the phillipieans
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why were the humanitarian reason for the spanish american war on the american side critized
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after taking control of the Philippians they did what the Spanish had done to the Cubans and killed thousands of civilians after a rebellion
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what was the Platt ammendment
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Cuba wouldn’t be allowed to enter any agreements with foreign countries that would stop Cuba from being independent or allow military operations on Cuba, that Cuba’s will have a permanante treaty, and will sell land to the US if asked
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why was there a revolution in cuba 1906
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becuase the liberal party believed that the moderate party rigged the elections
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how did the revolution in cuba 1906 end
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when the moderate party president realized the U.S wouldn’t support him he resigned And William Taft became a provisional governor
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why did the Indian mutiny fail
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1there was no organization between the rebels,
2Many areas were sympathetic to Britain,
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who was Louis Kossuth
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the nationalistic Magyar leader, his speeches were the ones that started the uprisings in Vienna
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Klemes Wenzel von Metternich
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the chancellor of Austria resigned when the riots started
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The march laws
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Independent Hungarian ministries of finance and defense could issue their own currency, nobles payed taxes and peasants could buy land and freedom of press
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Why did the hungarian revolution fail
Louis Kossuth was very nationalistic and so other ethnic groups helped the Austrians. he also made Magyar the official language even though only about 1/2 of the population spoke it.
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who is franz joseph
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the Emporer after Ferdinand said because he did not sign the March laws he would not follow them and took back hungary
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what were the champagne banquets
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you could not politically gather so people held these parties
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Why was there an uprising in France 1848
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because Louis phillipe banned the champagne banquets
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who is prime minster gouzout
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he resigned is also french
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what were the goals of the second republic
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universal suffrage and unemployment relief
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What were the national workshops
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they were unemployment relief but they were only and cities and they raised wealthy Parisians taxes so they left
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why did the june day uprisings happen
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because the government closed the national workshops
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who was louis napolean
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napoleons nephew voted in by name alone to lead the national assembly did ok once is 4 years were up he declared himself a dictator
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who was the leader of Young Italy
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Guiseppe Manzini
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what were the requirements for being apart of young italy
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under 40 ready to fight
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how did they plan to upset the austrian tresury in milan
y stop playing the lottery and stop smoking so they could make money of the taxes on it
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what happened in the 5 days of Milan
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soldiers shot into the crowds caused a uprising Austrian soldeirs were kicked out and the land declared to king of Sardinia
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Why did the united front of the 3 leaders fall apart (italy)
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because the king of Savoy was claiming cities for himself. Also the pope said he couldn’t choose sides because they were both catholic
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What made the pope leave Rome and what happened later
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The pope left because he was afraid of the violence. Manzini moved in and declared a republic of Rome Manzini was very uncorrupt and made alot of social progress.
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otto von bismark
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elected to the Prussian confederation wanted the king of Prussia to unite Germany he wasn’t strong enough
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What where the Kalsbald Decrees
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Censorship laws
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what were the six acts
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banned public gatherings tightened censorship on uni, and said to arrest any young Germany members
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who was Fredrick William the 4
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the king of Prussia pulled back censorship and freed political prisoners then undid this action and later showed support for the revolutionaries and set up a parliament but once he gained full power he crushed the revoulution
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what was the Prussian customs union
18 German states that standardized measurements got rid of customs and tarifs
who was louis phillipe
the so called citizen king but his only consession was letting wealthy men vote.
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what laws were passed in 1832 by germany
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the six acts which were thighter censorship
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how was bismarck responsible for the unification of germany
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put prussia in a dominant postioin,built up relations with neighboring countries, ensured prussia was in a better postion than austria,manipulated sitiuations to portay the other country as the agressor,with france attacking states helped prussia and that helped make the states into a postion where they have to stay togheter
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what happened on march 18 (germany)
frendrick william accepted the idea of a new german constitution, shots were fired into the crowd and 300 rioters were killed
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How did bismarck bring about frances defeat in 1870
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uspet napollean the 3rd over the sale of luxemborg, persuaded leopold wilhelms cousin to take the throne of spain but he was too scared,altered wilhelms letter and published it to start a fight with france,had better railroads for faster mobilization
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what did fredrick william do in responce to march 18th
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he sent out a leter called my dear berliners
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what happened at the frankfurt assebley
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the assembly wanted Schleswig and Holstein to join new Germany but Denmark did not and started blockading german harbors
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what happened after the assambelys falurie with denmark
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the people revolted and murdered 2
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what did the frankfurt parilment try to do
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offer fredrick william the throne to germany
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what did fredrick william respond to the offer of the crown
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he said no
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what happpened at the treaty of olmutz
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a area in the Erfurt union requested help with an uprising from Austria. Erfurt sent. troops as well as frankfurt and Erfurt had to back down because of the threat of Russian involvement.
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what did prussia do in response to the treaty of olmutz
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dissolve the erfurt union
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what were the 2 coelitions in germany in 1850
the Prussian dominated erfurt union and the frankfurt diet wich was Austrian dominated
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how did bismarck bring about austrias defeat in 1866
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he took control of the army, built good relations with Russia,he tricked Austria into giving him Danish land, Austria was dealing with revolts in Italy,he ensured the army had money, made Prussian railroads making them faster
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what did the cheif minister do to strenghten prussia
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improve living conditions, increased censorship, increase industial production and trade.
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what happened in 1848 germany
some small revolted and there were peacefull protests
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what did Fredrick William the 4th do when he became king of prussia
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realsed political prisoners and and abolished cencornship (after 3 years he undoes it)
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what did prussia do in 1819
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start the Prussian Customs Union wich meant all international customs barriers were disabled and there was standardized currency and weights used
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why did the chancellor of Austria
Klemens von metternich not want to see. Germany unified
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he was afraid of a revolt
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what did the austrian confederation convince the german states apart of it to
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pass censorship laws called karlsbald decrees
