Vocab: Inequity- Social Darwinism Flashcards
A state where the head of a state and other officials are representatives of the people and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the governments power over citizens.
Constitutional Republic✔️
An unjust or unfair act or sentence
Inequity✔️
A geographically extensive group of states and people united and ruled by a monarch or oligarchy
Empire✔️
The state of being equal
Equality✔️
Government by the people: rule of the majority
Democracy✔️
Rights belonging to all persons
Human rights✔️
A constitutional system of government.
Constitutionalism✔️
Loyalty and devotion to a nation
Nationalism✔️
A federal system of government, a union of one
Federalism✔️
Favoring traditional views and values
Coservative✔️
Believing That government should be active in supporting social and political change
Liberal✔️
One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
Reactionary✔️
Favoritism shown shown to someone on the basis of family relationship.
Nepotism✔️
Nepoleon’s name for the Iberian Peninsula. After the French take Spain they were constantly spending resources to maintain control. Napoleon named it the ulcer because of the drain.
“Spanish Ulcer”✔️
1814 to 1815. It was an assembly of countries that reorganized Europe after the defeat of Napoleon. The configuration of Europe after the Congress lasted for 40 years.
*Congress of Vienna✔️
A novel written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1869. It is a fictional novel about the events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic Era on Russia.
War and Peace✔️
Also known as the patriotic war of 1812, in Russia. Napoleon was at the height of his power either directly or indirectly through treaties which gave him control of most of Western and Central Europe with the exception of Russia. June 24th, 1812 Napoleon and the French army marched toward Moscow. The Russians had half the army of the French but outwitted them strategically by retreating and destroying lodging and food resources as they went. Napoleon enters Moscow in October to find it burning. Napoleon was forced to head home with no way of re-supplying his army with food. By November the soldiers were eating the horses. By December they were defeated and only 300,000 men returned home
The Russian Campaign ✔️
Distribution of Power between a central government and its sub-national governments.
Balance of Power✔️
The current or existing state of affairs.
Status Quo✔️