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9th Grade
01/27/2013

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Bourgeoisie
Definition
the top part of the middle class
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deficit spending
Definition

when the government spends more than it take in

helped fuel the French Revolution

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faction
Definition
small group
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republic
Definition
system of government in which officials are chosen by the people 
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Storming of the Bastille
Definition
People of Paris stormed the Bastille for weapons- it was seen as a symbol of the Revolution and as a blow to tyranny
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Tennis Court Oath
Definition
The National Assembly vowed to meet wherever and whenever to create a constitution for France
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
Definition

Modeled after the Decalration of Independence, says all men are born with free and equal rights such as:

liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression

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creoles
Definition

a person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendant of Spainish settlers.

They had an advantage because they would have some education and were influenced by enlightenment ideas

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Laissez-faire economics
Definition
policy allowing buisnesses to operate with little or no government interference
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natural rights
Definition
right that belong to all humans from birth
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natural laws
Definition
rules/laws that govern human nature
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social contract
Definition
an agreement where people give up their freedom to a powerful government to avoid chaos
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Denis Diderot
Definition

wrote The Encyclopedia

He wanted to change how people thought by explaining the new enlightenment ideas

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Thomas Hobbes
Definition

thought people were naturally creul, greedy, and selfish;

thought without laws we would be a chaotic society

he wanted a monarchy to control the people

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Jean- Jaques Rousseau
Definition

thought pople were naturally good but were corupted by the government

thought that the good of the community should come before the good of the individual

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Mary Wollstonecraft
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wanted equal education for boys and girls so the women could interact with the men and/or participate in things outside of the home
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Voltaire
Definition
believed strongly in free speech and was put in jail for expressing his beliefs
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Montesquieu
Definition
Believed in separtaion of power and checks and balances
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Adam Smith
Definition

supported laissez- faire

his policies would help shape the economy in the 1800s and 1900s

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John Locke
Definition

His ideas helped write the Declaration of Independence

Believed that people were basically moral

That they had natrual rights

Thought govt. has an obligation to the people it serves- if the people weren't satisifed they had the right to overthrow it

 

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factories
Definition
places where workers and machines are brought together to prouce large quantities of goods
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turnpikes
Definition
privately built road that charges a fee to travelers who use it
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 smelt
Definition
extract metal from its ore by a process involving heating and melting
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enclosure
Definition
the process of taking over and fencing off peasant farmers' land
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capital
Definition
money or wealth
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James Watt
Definition
imporved on Newcomen's coal-powered steam-engine
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George Stephenson
Definition
developed steam powered locomotive
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James Hargreaves
Definition
made the spinning jenny- it spun multiple threads a once
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Jethro Tull
Definition
made the seed drill- helped spread seeds more efficiently
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Reasons Britian took the lead in the Industrial Revolution
Definition
Economic conditions, natural resources, new technology, political and social conditions
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From what industry did the factories come from?
Definition
Textile indsutry
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When the textile industry became industrialized, what kind of effect did it have?
Definition
Creation of factories, less home-made things, more output from factories
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New sources of energy that were used during the Industrial Revolution were...?
Definition
Steam engine, wind, coal, fire, water
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Florence Nightingale
Definition
founded the first nursing school, wanted better sanitiation in the battlefield hospitals
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Alfred Nobel
Definition

invented dynamite

money he raised now funds the Nobel Peace Prize

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Louis Oasteur
Definition

found out that using heat on microbes kills them

created a pricess to kill the microbes in milk (pasturized milk)

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Henry Bessemer
Definition
Used the Bessemer process to get steel out of iron
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assembly line
Definition
workers add parts to a product that moves along a belf from one work station to another
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cartel
Definition
an association to fix prices, set production quotes, or control markets
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urbanization
Definition
movement of people from rural areas to cities
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labor unions
Definition
workers' organization
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corporation
Definition
buisnesses that are owned by many investors who buy hares of stock
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interchangeable parts
Definition
identical components that could be used in place of one another
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A typical working class woman worked how many hours outside the house during the Industrial Revolution?
Definition
12-16 hours
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What two countries were the leaders if industry by 1900
Definition
Germany and America
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Germ Theory
Definition

the theory that certain microbes could cause specific diseases

lead to better sanitiation

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tennements
Definition
multistory building divided into crowded appartments
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Jeremy Bentham
Definition

supported utilitarianism- the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amout of people

Supported some govt. interference

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Charles Dickens
Definition
English writer who wrote about what a hard life was like in the 1800s
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Karl Marx
Definition

Thought of "scientific socialism"

saw the struggle of communism

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Robert Owen
Definition

set up a NICE MILL to prove that the environment the workers were in changed how they worked, and being nice would benefit both parties

**Most likely to support cooperation not competition**

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Social Gospel
Definition
movement of the 1800s that urged Christians to do community service
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Utilitarianism
Definition
the idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people
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Tempererance movement
Definition
campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
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socialism
Definition
system in which the people as a shole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all buisnesses
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communisim
Definition
form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx; he thought that the class struggle would lead to a classless society, community would own everything as a whole
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Social Darwinism
Definition
where Darwin's theories are applied to humans and certain groups are said to be more 'fit' or 'better' than others
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What class grew fastest during the 1800s
Definition
the middle class
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What was the most important trait that all middle and upper classes wanted to have?
Definition
Respectability
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Why does Darwin's Theory of Evolution cause such controversy?
Definition
It goes against the churchs' way of develpoment- God is supposed to have created everything, but Darwin's theory suggests that God didn't make the world.  It also encouraged racism.
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