Semester 2 Final

Question 1

Industrial capitalism

Answer 1

Economic system based on industrial production.

Question 2

Socialism

Answer 2

System in which society, usually in the form of a government, owns and controls some means of production; factories and utilities.

Question 3

The congress of Vienna

Answer 3

(September 1814) brought in order to arrange a final peace settlement. Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

Question 4

Klemens von Metternich

Answer 4

Leader of congress of Vienna; Austrian foreign minister.

Question 5

Principle of legitimacy

Answer 5

[Metternich] meant that lawful monarchs from the royal families that had ruled before Napoleon would be restored to their positions of power in order to keep peace and stability in Europe.

Question 6

Conservatism

Answer 6

Based on tradition and social stability.

Question 7

Principle of intervention

Answer 7

According to the principle of the great powers have the right to send armies to countries were there revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs to their thrones.

Question 8

Liberalism

Answer 8

A political philosophy based largely on Enlightenment principles, held that people should be as free as possible from government restraint.

Question 9

Nationalism

Answer 9

The unique cultural identity of a people based on a common language, religion, national symbols.

Question 10

Militarism

Answer 10

Reliance on military strength.

Question 11

Otto von Bismarck

Answer 11

New prime minister of the Prussian army.

Question 12

Realpolitik

Answer 12

“Politics of reality”

Question 13

Kaiser

Answer 13

Emperor

Question 14

Plebiscite

Answer 14

Popular vote

Question 15

Emancipation

Answer 15

Edict the freed the serfs

Question 16

Abolitionism

Answer 16

A movement to end slavery

Question 17

Secede

Answer 17

Withdraw

Question 18

Romanticism

Answer 18

Emerged as a reaction to the ideas of the enlightenment.

Question 19

Secularization

Answer 19

Indifference or rejection of religion or religious consideration

Question 20

Organic evolution

Answer 20

The basic idea that each kind of plant animal had evolved over a long period of time from earlier and simpler forms of life

Question 21

Natural selection

Answer 21

“Some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others”

Question 22

Realism

Answer 22

A movement in the literary and visual arts.

Question 23

Bourgeoisie

Answer 23

The middle class; the oppressors

Question 24

Proletariat

Answer 24

The working class; the oppressed

Question 25

A dictatorship

Answer 25

Government in which a person or group has absolute power

Question 26

Revisionists

Answer 26

Rejected the revolutionary approach and I get that workers must continue to organize in mass political parties and even work with other parties to regain reforms

Question 27

What book did Karl Marx write?

Answer 27

The Communist manifesto, 1848

Question 28

Capital

Answer 28

A ready supply of money (British)

Question 29

Literacy

Answer 29

The ability to read