Modernity And Historicity

Question 0

Walter Bagehot - “Physics and Politics”

Answer 0

1872 - attempt to extend the idea of natural selection between nations and between human races - justification of imperialism

Question 1

“The origins of species”

Answer 1

1859

Question 2

US Reconstruction and the ammendmnets

Answer 2

1865-77
XIII amendment - abolition of slavery and forced servitude
XIV amendment - naturalization of US citizenship; equal protection clause
XV - no vote denial because of race or previous servitude

Question 3

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 3

1896 - Confinrmation of “separate but equal” –> state sponsored segregation

Question 4

Carpetbaggers

Answer 4

Northerners who moved to the south after the Civil War

Question 5

Scalawags

Answer 5

Cooperated politically with black freed and North newcomers

Question 6

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 6

Tennessee 1865

Question 7

Four aspects of modernity

Answer 7

1) Political sovereignty
2) Social equality
3) Religious pluralism
4) economic specialization

Question 8

Representation of people’s Act 1867

Answer 8

1867 - 2 out of 7 million adults in England and Wales could vote - enfranchisement of the urban male working class for the first time

Question 9

III Republic in France

Answer 9

1875

Question 10

A Plea for pure Science

Answer 10

1883

Question 11

José Gasset quote

Answer 11

“Man, in a word, has no nature, what he has is history”