Industry, Mass Politics And Culture Flashcards

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Replace coal and steam in the early 1900s

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Electricity oil and gasoline

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Increased steel Production while reducing costs in 1900

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The Bessemer process

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New form of communication in 1876

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The telephone

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Britain’s new industrial rivals in the 1870s

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Germany and the United States

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Reasons for population growth in the early 1900s

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Falling death rates and improve agricultural and industrial production

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Demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men in the late 18th century

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Olympia de Gouges

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Argued that inequalities were a relic from the past and “a hinders cue to human development” in the mid 19th century

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John Stuart mill

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Criticized conventional marriage roles, wrote doll house in 1879

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Henrick Ibsen

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Name for an ideal middle class woman

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The angel in the house

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Most important role of “the angel in the house”

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To be the families moral guardian

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What countries in Europe allowed women to vote in 1900

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None

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The new woman of the 1900s

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Supported herself and enjoyed sports

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Universal male suffrage led to the creation of many

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Political parties

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The Paris commune 1871

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People of Paris reject new conservative government and a group of radicals know as commune revolt

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Effects of Paris commune

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Government crushes commune, leads to class hatred

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The Dreyfus affair

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Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly accused of selling military secrets to Germans and is imprisoned on devils island

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Consequences of Dreyfus affair

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Revealed wide spread anti semitism. Deepened political divisions

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Following the act of union in 1801 Ireland was united with

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Great Britain

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In the early1800s Ireland was governed by

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British Parliament

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Irish home rule Bill in 1914

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Granted I went own parliament

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Franchise act of 1884

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Extended voting rights to rural male labors

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First European country to develop a social welfare plan

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Germany under otto von Bismarck

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Attempted to expand Bismarck’s social reforms in 1890

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William the second

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Last European states to eliminate legal discrimination against Jews

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Russia

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Causes for Russian political movement in the early 20th century

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Russia’s rapid industrialization

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Social Democrats split into which two groups

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The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks

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Mensheviks

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Favored gradual socialistic reform

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Bolsheviks

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Led by Vladimir Lenin, advocated a communist revolution spearheaded by small elite of professional revolutionaries

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Causes of the Revolution of 1905

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Russia’s loss in the Russo Japanese war, Bloody Sunday

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Bloody Sunday massacre

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Cossacks open fire on a peaceful crowd of workers outside the winter palace in St. Petersburg

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Louis pasture

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Conducted experiments supported germ theory of disease, Discovers heart can destroy many harmful bacteria

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Robert Koch

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Identifies bacteria responsible for specific diseases

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Joseph Lister

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Promotes idea of sterile surgery

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Impact of the bacterial revolution

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Dramatic decline in European death rate

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Charles Darwin was informed by who about a constant struggle for existence

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Thomas Malthus

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Herbert Spencer

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Applied Darwin’s theories to human society

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Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism

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Other companies thrive when inefficient ones go bankrupt

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Impressionism

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Captured a moment of time, depicted leisure activities of the bourgeoisie

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Cubism

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Presented multiple views of the same objects

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Key cubism artist

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Picasso