People Of a Certain Group Flashcards

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Bourgeoisie

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The middle class
In Europe they sought to be recognized by capital and property rather than by birth or title
Cities of commercial revolution like Bristol and Bombay provides homes and neighborhoods for them

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Millenarian

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Convinced of the imminent coming of a just and ideal society
Tenskwatawa was one
Called for a return to ancestral ways & defeat of European colonial power

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Proletarians

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Industrial wage workers
Lived only as long as they could find work , found work only as long as their labor increases capital
Vulnerable to fluctuations of the market

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Modernists

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A generation of younger artist, writers and scientists who broke away from older conventions
Sought new ways of seeing & describing the world

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Progressive reformers

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People who attacked corrupt city governments that had allegedly fallen into the hands of immigrant dominated political machines
Attacked gambling drinking & prostitution
Built city parks in hopes to offer healthier forms of entertainment

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Bolsheviks

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Left wing socialists
Seized power in Russia in 1917
Led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky
Proclaimed a social revolution to overtake the “bourgeois “ revolution

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Nazis

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. Founded earlier that same year by a small group of men including locksmith Anton Drexler (1884-1942) and journalist Karl Harrer (1890-1926), the party promoted German nationalism and anti-Semitism, and felt that the Treaty of Versailles, the peace settlement that ended the war, was extremely unjust to Germany by burdening it with reparations it could never pay.

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