Modern History Unit 1 Test Flashcards
What was Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was when people got shot during a peaceful petition
Who was apart of the ruling class
The government and the court while the Tsar and his family was the top of this class
Who was apart of the upper class
Nobility(rich people of Russia), high clergy(priests) and military offiicers
Who were the commercial class
Merchants, and factory owners
Who were the working class and peasantry
Factory workers and small traders were working class and farmers were peasantry. These two classes were about the same in status
Who was Nichola II’s the Tsar family
He had four daughters and a son(Alexis) who suffered haemophilia with his wife Alexandra(also his second cousin)
Why was Nicholas the 2nd bad as the Tsar
He didn’t want to bring happiness to the people
Knew very little about the people
He didn’t have experience in governmental matters
How many people were peasants in Russia and what did they do and eat.
4/5 people in Russia were peasants and their main food was porridge, rye bread or porridge and did the cultivate the land
What does the Tsarist Russia refers to
The period of Russia history when the country was ruled by a series of tsars(emperors) from the Romanov dynasty
How long did the Romanov dynasty last
1613-1917
Who was Nicholas the 2nd
The last tsar of Russia who ruled in 1894
What was Russian Orthodoxy
The dominant religion which z
When was Bloody Sunday
22 January 1905
How, when and why did the Royal Family(Romanovs) die
Got shot by drunk Soviet Soldiers in 1918 who felt like it
