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Exam II Review 3-24-13
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03/26/2013

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The "Bessemer Process"
Definition

1856- Henry Bessemer

- Cheaper steel=steel replaces iron

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James Watt
Definition

1765- Steam Engine

-No horse, no plant on water

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George Stephenson
Definition

1825- Passengers for steam engine

-Steam locomotive

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The Luddites
Definition
1811-16- Anti-Industrialism
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Congress of Vienna
Definition

1814-1815- Set Europes path after Napoleon

-The "Big Four"- Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria

 

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Who led the Congress of Vienna
Definition
Prince Metternich
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Pre- Napoleonic Europe
Definition
Restored monarchies, disbanded Napoleons army, France back to 1789
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Utilitarianism
Definition
Whatever benefits most people is best
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Utopian Socialism
Definition

-Cooperation not competition, gender equality, no private property

-Charles Fourier and Robert Owen

-1820-30s- Ideal Communities

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Scientific Socialism
Definition
-Karl Marx, Friedrich Engles
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Utopians
Definition
Unrealistic and Inneffective
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Capitolism
Definition

-Cause of all social ills

-Class struggle

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Bourgeolsie
Definition
Capitolists/Workers
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Proletariat
Definition
Workers
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Profit Seeking leads to
Definition
-Exploitation and duping of proletariat
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1848- Manifesto of the Comunist Party
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-Human history= Class struggle

-Capitolism will fail= Socialism Wins

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North West Passage
Definition

1576- Martin Frobisber

-False Discovery

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Henry Hudsons Voyages
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Found Hudson Bay but never found the North West Passage
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Adolph E. Nordenskjold
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-Officially Navigates North East Passage
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Richard Chancellor
Definition
-Discovered Russia
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Vitus Bering
Definition
-Navigated between continents and claimed alsaska
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Battle of Missolonghi
Definition

-Ottoman win, but gained greece sympathy

-Gained independence in 1832

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"June Days of 1848"
Definition

- Workers riots oust 2nd republic

-election of Louis-Napoleon

-1851- Became Napoleon III

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Frederick William IV of Prussia
Definition

-Limited, ineffective reform

-Repressive Laws repealed

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Frankfurt Assembly
Definition
-Proposed constitutional monarchy
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Who led the Frankfurt Assembly?
Definition
Kaiser (king)
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British Reform Bill of 1832
Definition

-More people get to vote

-Slavery abolished in 1833

-Worker protections

-Dissatisfacation remained

 

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Irish Potato Famine
Definition
Starvation and Immigration
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Janissaries
Definition

-Trained slaves

-Bureaucrats

-The ottoman empire circa 1450

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"Sick man of Europe"
Definition

-Bored and Unhappy revolt

-2nd failure at vienna

-Territorial losses

-Sickman of Europe

-Sultanate abolished

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Tokugawa Shogunate
Definition

-Unified people vs. Outsiders

-Foreign contact rose-confidence in ability to handle it decreased

-Series of bad harvests led to inflation, disease, unrest

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Commodorce Perry
Definition

-US allowed trade with west or else

-Westerners allowed trade

-Result: heavy inflation, cholera, humiliation

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Emperor Meiji
Definition

-Enlightened rule

-Matsuhito

-Reforms: abolished social classes, manditory education, eurostyle parliament

-Result: Agrarian state to industrial power

-Samurai lose status and fade away

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Neo- Imperialism
Definition

-3 causes:

1. Economic- needed for raw materials and sales

2. Political Stresses: need to unite people at home

3. International rivalries

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Benjamin Disraeli
Definition
British Prime Minister
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Social Darwinism
Definition
"Survival of the Fittest"
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Sepoy Rebellion
Definition

-against foreign rule; ruthlessly put down

-direct control of indian government

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"The great game"
Definition

-Russia by 1860s- Central Asia

-Russia vs. Britain

-French Indocnina: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

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Cohongs
Definition
-China limited access only hard currency, only in one city, only with government firms
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Opium Wars
Definition
-British solution: Import opium
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Linzexu
Definition
-Sponsored "War on Opium"
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First Opium War
Definition
-Anti-Foreign War, British Dominate
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Treaty of Nahjima
Definition
-unequal treaties=reduce power
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Taiping Rebellion 1850-64

-Hong Xiuquan

Definition
-failed scholar-nervous breakdown- "Jesus'younger brother"- "Heavenly Kingdom"
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Hundred days reform
Definition

-Emporer replaced by his aunt Cixi

-Modernists scholars vs. Traditionalists

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Boxer Rebellion
Definition

-Society of righteous and harmonious fists

-Foreign powers put it down

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The "Dark Continent"
Definition
-Limited Prescence
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David Livingston
Definition
-Sent letters to the US about "the dark continent" with his findings
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Henry Stanley
Definition
-Wrote a book about the search for David Livingston
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King Leopold II of Belgium
Definition

-Congo free state

-Primary goal: $$$ from rubber

-Horrendously cruel conditions

-Belgian parliament took control

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The Boer War
Definition

-Dutch Farmers

-Leave british territory- discovery of diamonds and gold

-War: British win, ruthless retalliation

-Whites get priviledged status

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Congress of Berlin
Definition
-Set "ground rules" for african land grab
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition

-World: stay out of the americas

-Purchase: Alaska from Russia(Sewards Folly)

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Acquisition of Hawaii
Definition

-Planters overthrow royal family

-Us ANNEX islands

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Spanish-American War
Definition

-Excuse for war: USS Maine sinking

-US defeated Spain and gained Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and Buys Philipines

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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
-US will intervene if economic interests are threatened in west
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Panama Canal
Definition
-US helps rebels create panama for right to build and own canal
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Scientific Racism
Definition

-Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau

-Race defines intelligence

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Edward Jenner
Definition
-Small pox vaccine
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"English Riding Coat"
Definition

-New Birth Control=Condoms

-Made of animals intestines and linen=Latex

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Problems of City Life
Definition

-Population centers=New problems

-Heavy population, awful/crowded living conditions, diseases

-Bad conditions=Improvement: water quality improved, sewage systems, building codes

-Migration to america: from North and West Europe, then East and South Europe

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