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Western Civilization
Chapter 26
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03/18/2007

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mechanization
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replacement of human labor with machine labor and power technology
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conscription
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a general term for involuntary labor but generally in modern times means the requirement by the state that citizens serve in the armed forces
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Cartels and monopolies
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groups of companies that joined together in order to fix prices and giant firms able to dominate entire industries nationally and internationally
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"captains of industry"
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the owners or managers of these large firms
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ennobled
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made noble or aristocratic
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"robber barons"
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what bankers and entrepreneurs were called in the United States
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"essential" industries
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broadly defined to include transportation, communication, national banks, and the production of war goods
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the Krupp steelworks
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a German megacartel
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the "cult of domesticity"
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the cultural ideal of women in the home
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"Taylorism"
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scientific management in America
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Frederick Taylor
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Taylorism was named after him = was one of its leading proponents
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Bessemer and Siemens
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processed quality steel made cheaply and abundantly, causing a boom in the railroad and construction industries
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Thomas Eakins
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a great American painter that caught the atmosphere of medical school in the nineteenth century
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the Trans-Siberian Railroad
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carried millions of settlers eastward to central Asia
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Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz
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two German engineers = perfected the internal combustion engine fueled by petroleum products and applied it to a carriage
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Daimler
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also, developed a luxury automobile = the Mercedes
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Henry Ford
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an American who produced the Model T for the "ordinary man"
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mass-prodution
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large-scale manufacturing in which labor is specialized
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented the telephone
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Guglielmo Marconi
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invented the wireless, or radio
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Michael Faraday and Jame's Maxwell
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discovered the fundamentals of electricity and the inventions of Thomas Edison, Bell, and Marconi
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Louis Pasteur
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discovered and isolated disease-causing bacteria
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Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel of Germany or Jules Guesde of France
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insisted that reform would come only through a socialist-led revolution
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William E. Gladstone
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a pious, sober man for whom politics was a struggle between the forces of liberal good and conservative evil
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Benjamin Disraeli
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a novelist and a conservative, who loved the fascinating game of politics
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J. Kier Hardie
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a colorful nonconformist who represented a poor Welsh mining district in the House of Commons, formed the Independent Labour party
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Taff Vale decision
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the courts awarded damages to an employer picketed by a union
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David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill
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introduced a series of important social measures
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the Fenians
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a revolutionary republican group, called for Irish independence
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Charles Stewart Parnell
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led the Irish to form a separate bloc to force the Conservatives and the Liberals to reckon with the issue of home rule
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the Ulster Volunteers
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a private army organized by the the Protestant Irish
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Sir Roger Casement
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joined the Germans to fight for Ireland's idependence
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"woman question"
Definition
the issue of women's equality
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Henrik Isben, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells
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supported women's emancipation
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August Strindberg
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opposed women's emancipation
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Clara Zetkin
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a German that argued that only socialism could liberate women from responsibility for their children and from their lives of hard work in the home and the economy
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Millicent Fawcett and Josephine Butler
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thought that women should concentrate on self-improvement and legal efforts to raise their status in society rather than focus on the vote
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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urged demonstrations and disruptions of the House of Commons
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
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nephew of the Napoleon I, dominated France
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plebiscite
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a direct vote in which the entire voting public is asked to accept or reject a proposition or a candidate
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Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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an anarchist, a leader in The Paris Commune
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Adolph Thiers
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accepted Bismark's peaces terms, ordered French soldiers to attack Paris
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Georges Boulanger
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dramatically committed suicide on the grave of his former mistress
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus
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was wrongly accused of selling military secrets to the Germans
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Georges Clemencceau
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a war leader
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Anticlericalism
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opposition to priestly influence in govt, education, society, and ownership of land and property
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syndicalism
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a political/economic philosophy and movement that advocates giving the control of govt. and industry to workers' federations
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Leo XIII
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when he became pope, Bismarck quietly opened negotiations to end the "struggle for culture"
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Ferdinand Lasalle
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believed that if Germany enacted social reforms, workers would be just as patriotic as any other group
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Jean Jaures
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the most important socialist in the Third French Republic
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Kaiser William II
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ascended the throne when Germany possessed the most extensive sector of large-scale, concentrated industrial and corporate capitalism, as well as the largest and most powerful unions
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official nationality
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an ideology of Russian superiority decreed by Napoleon I
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Alexander II
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was determined to preserve autocratic rule in Russia
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Alexander III
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a firm tough unimaginative ruler
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Nicholas II
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was hopelessly unprepared and out of tune with the times when he succeeded his father
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