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WH C12 Terms/PPL
Question | Answer |
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Capital | Available money |
Entrepreneur | Small business owner |
Cottage industry | making things in your house to sell, like a small factory |
puddling | a new better way to make iron |
industrial capitalism | the best way to make money is by making things in factories |
socialism | the government owns the resources and they are distributed by how hard you work |
James Watt | Improved the steam engine |
Robert Fulton | Invented the first paddle-wheeled steamboat |
Conservatism | values based stance where self reliance and skepticism about the good of others are key |
Principle of intervention | If any country in Europe goes through a revolution like France, the powers of other countries will squash it and put the king back in power. |
Liberalism | stance focused on progression and moving forward in society. Favors new ideas as apposed to tradition. Sees the burden of the poor as the responsibility of the wealthy. Sees most people as good. |
Universal Male Suffrage | All men can vote |
Louis-Napoleon | Napoleon's nephew who takes over after the second French Revolution. Renames himself Emperor Napoleon III |
Militarism | Making the army the priority for one's country |
Kaiser | Russian for Caesar, an absolute leader |
Plebiscite | Popular vote. Where all the people vote. |
Emancipation | To set free |
Secede | To break away from a larger part |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | Unified Italy by force from south to north |
Otto von Bismarck | Made Prussia powerful, defeated France and eventually turned a huge chunk of land into Germany |
Czar Alexander II | Freed the serfs in Russia |
Abolitionism | Movement to stop slavery |
Romanticism | Movement in art, music and thought that we should focus on our feelings and nature. It was a backlash to the enlightenment. |
Secularization | A movement toward a non-religious world |
Organic evolution | Darwin's idea of natural selection |
Realism | Backlash to romanticism. Focuses on the harsh realities of the world and everyday problems. |
Beethoven | Deaf composer. |
Pasteur | Discovered germs. Germ theory. Pasteurized milk process. |
Darwin | On the Origin of Species - evolution The Descent of Man - Man and ape have common ancestorq |
Dickens | Realist English writer of Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist |