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HIS 102
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History
Undergraduate 2
04/05/2009

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railroad
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Industry that aided the industrial revolution by improving transportation as well as the becoming a major consumer of iron and steel and revolutionized the lives of people by making them mobile
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Frankfurt
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The liberals failed to unify Germany in the revolution of 1848 in the _________ assembly.
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Grey
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Lord ___________ instituted the reform act setting Britain of a path away from revolution.
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Harriet Tubman
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helped free slaves through underground railroad
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Charles Parnell
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led the first Irish effort to achieve home rule often using violence
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Working class
Definition
proletariat is often referred to as ________
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socialists
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the ____________ were a new political force which wanted gov't ownership of the means of production
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thomas malthus
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wrote "An Essay on Population" which said that population would grow faster than the ability to grow food with famine as the result
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Alsace, Lorraine
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At the end of the Franco-Prussian war, france had to give the states of __ and __ to Germany.
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EMS dispatch
Definition
what letter did Bismarck publish in the paper in Paris that sparked the Franco-Prussian war?
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Luddite
Definition
workers disgruntled with the industrial revolution sought to destroy the machines themselves in the ___ movement
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social darwinism
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the belief that stronger nations and cultures must destroy weaker ones for the evolution of society
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Austerlitz
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Napoleon defeated both the australians and russians at the battle of __.
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strikes
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what weapon did the labor unions have at their disposal to use against mgmt
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middle
Definition
a millie of slaves died on the voyage across the Atlantic known as the __ passage.
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evangelistic
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as a response to the industrial revolution, some christian religions became ___
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Mill
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who helped to soften the ideals of liberalism by arguing that what was bad for the people was bad for the nation
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Gottlieb Daimler
Definition
who developed the internal combustion engine
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Irish potato famine
Definition
what event in the mid 1800s seemed to justify the reasoning of "an essay on population" and the "iron law of wages"
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abolishment
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the south feared that lincoln would call for the ____ or end of slavery and seceded from the union
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Eli Whitney
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cotton gin
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Robert owen
Definition
utopian socialist
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toussaint l'overture
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led slave revolt in haiti
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equator
Definition
feature of geography that dominates the land and weather patterns of africa
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re-insurance
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William II allowed the __ treaty with russia to lapse, pushing russians into arms of france.
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Sedan
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Prussia defeated france at the battle of __.
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thomas edison
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invented electric light
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anarchism
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group that advocated no government and wanted their goal immediately, assassination, bombings
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Cetshwayo
Definition
Zulu leader who defeated the British
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David Ricardo
Definition
developed the "iron law of wages"
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Jim Crow laws
Definition
after reconstruction southern states instituted a system of segregation thru ____ laws
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Besssemer
Definition
Who invented a cheap way to melt iron into steel?
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Gained Holstein, Holstein hates Austria
Definition
What was the major reason for the weakness of the Austrian Empire?
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Bantu
Definition
The ______ people took over Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Flying Shuttle
Definition
The ____ _____ enabled weavers to weave 10 times faster and helped start the industrial revolution.
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