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Whap vocab 5th 6
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History
10th Grade
03/31/2013

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Liberalism
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stressed limited state interference in private life, representation of the ppl in gove; urged importance of constitutional rule and parliaments
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Radicals
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advocated broader voting rights than liberals; urged reforms favoring the lower classes
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Socialism
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attacked private property in the name of equality, wanted state control of the means of production and an end to the capitalistic exploitation of the working class
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Nationalism
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urged the importance of national unity, valued a collective identity based on ethnic origns
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factory system
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intensification of all the processes of production at a single site during the industrial rev., involved greater org. of labor and increased discipline
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Benjamin Disraeli
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British politician; granted the vote to working class males in 1867, an ex. of conservative politicians keeping stability through reform
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Otto van bismark
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conservative prime minister of prussia; architect of german unification under the prussian king in 1871, utilized liberal reforms to maintain stability
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Revisionism
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socialist though that disagreed with Marx's formulation, believed that social and economic progress could be achieved through existing political institutions
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feminist movements
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sought legal and economic gains for women , among equal access to professions and higher education, came to concentrate on the right to vote, won initial support from middle class women
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Mass leisure culture
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an aspect of the later industrial rev., decreased time at work and offered opportunities for new forms of leisure time, such as vacation trips and team sports
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Raj
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the british political est. in Indias
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Plassey (1757)
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battle btw the troops of the Brit E. Ind. Comp and the Ind. ruler of bengal, Brit victory gave them control of NE Ind.
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Robert Clive
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architect of brit victory at Plassey, est. foundations of the Raj in N Ind
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Presidencies
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3 districts that comprised the bulk of Brit ruled terr. in Ind. during early 19thc., capitals at calcutta, madras, and bombay
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Princely States
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ruled by Ind. princes allied with the Raj., agents of the E. Ind. Comp. were stationed at their courts to ensure loyalty
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Nabobs
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name given to brit who went to ind. to make fortunes through graft and exploitation, returned to britain to live richly
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charles cornwallis
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Brit. official who reformed E. Ind. Comp. corruption during the 1790s
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Settler colonies
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colonies as south af., new zealand, algeria, kenya, and hawaii where minority Eu pops lived among majority indigenous ppls
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White racial supremacy
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belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the pd before WWI
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Boer republics
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Ind.st.'s the Orange Free state and Transvaal-established during the 1850s in the south african interior by afrikaners
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