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Ideologies Flashcards

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Causes of these Ideologies

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Atlantic revolutions

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Causes of conservatism

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Challenges of American + France revolutions

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Liberalism

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Criticized status / social standing after Revolutions; Need to improve society and extend rights to women + slaves

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Liberalists’ attitude on government

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Want to get government out of their lives; Believes government is the greatest threat to freedom; Minimum government intervention → Lots of opportunity for capitalism

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What did liberalism result in?

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Constitutional governments based on popular sovereignty

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Which group of people would best support liberalism?

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Middle class people who wanted property rights but not government interference + Working class (want to be free from the middle class)

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Liberalists’ view on progress

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Society is possible to improve and that change is likely to be positive

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What do liberalists like?

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Freedom of speech, religion, thought, economy; Rights to Life, Liberty, Property; Individual rights to property

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What don’t liberalists like?

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Absolute Monarchy; Mercantilism → tariffs; Cities owning rights to property

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Conservatism

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Ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values - Justify current state of affairs

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Which group of people would best support conservatism?

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Aristocracy because they wanted to keep as much power as possible, with the smallest amount of change

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What do conservatists like?

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Government based on old customs + traditions (England society became good without a revolution); Slow changes - Supported American revolution → Americans were fighting for their rights + establishing a government that protects their rights (not radical change)

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What don’t conservatists like?

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Revolutionary change; Popular sovereignty; French revolution → dislikes abolitionists (too radical) because legally, slaves were property (property is natural right) and this would uproot gov; Radical social changes in class and tradition; Women’s rights

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Capitalism / Free Market

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People determines prices, not government

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Which group of people would best support capitalism?

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Merchants + Middle class / bourgeoisie (because they are the ones in control)

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What do capitalists like?

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Economic wealth and trade held more privately by people and corporations - Governments do not interfere in economic matters; Economic version of liberalism

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Nationalism

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Community identity - People think of themselves as members of a society; Isn’t related to Enlightenment values; Promised glory + prosperity to those who worked in the interest of their national communities

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Causes of Nationalism

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Winning wars against common enemies (French Revolution + Napoleonic Era) + Enlightenment ideals -> Nations

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Nation

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Made up of people with common ethnicity, religion, language, history, and culture

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Most important aspect of a nation

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Govern itself

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Two phases of nationalism

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Cultural -> Loyalty from members

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Which group of people would best support nationalism?

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Mostly people who identified with culture

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Which group of people would not support nationalism?

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Higher classes who were scared that nationalism could rip apart their power + create more wars

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Zeitgeist

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The spirit of a time

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What did nationalists like?

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Improvements within the nation

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What did nationalists dislike?

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Congress of Vienna + Klemens von Metternich - attempted to return power to nobles, reduce nationalism, but failed mostly; Minorities -oppressed as outsiders

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Suffrage

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Right / privilege to vote in order to elect public officials / adopt laws

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Feminism

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Belief in full social, economic, and political equality for women

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Drawbacks of Nationalism

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Nationalists separate themselves from people in other regions + minorities

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Zionism

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Movement where claims the Jewish people having a nation and right to their own national homeland

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Cause of zionism

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Divisive potential of nationalism

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Anti-Semitism

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A hateful perception of Jews; Often result in violence + massacres

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Cause of Anti-Semitism

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Growing influence of nationalism + national communities

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Abolitionism

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Movement to end slavery + liberate enslaved individuals around the world

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Imperialism

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When a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain

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Socialism

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Wanted to solve social + economic problems capitalism + industrialization

Modern World History (14 decks)

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