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HIST 1118
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ruler of Thumb | You can not beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb |
| Fleet Street Marriage | Cheaper way to get marry than the traditional method |
| Hardwick Act | To stop fleet street, Because government was losing money |
| BANNS | public announcement made on 3 weeks advanced to see if there is any objections |
| Debtor's prison | Throw in People who owe debts |
| Robert Malthus | Essay on Population |
| ALBION | Old Name for British Island |
| Victoria | Albert |
| WALTS | Brought back by the soilders, Devil's tool |
| Corsets | Whale bones, keep women in shape |
| Communist Manifesto | Socialist Utopia, Communist ideaology, Karl Marx |
| King Leopold of Belgium | Congo in Africa |
| Franz Ferdinand | Cousin of Franz Joseph, Assassinated in Sarajevo |
| War Bride | Women who lost husband or lovers in the war against nepolean |
| Freud | Father of Psychoanalysis, Austrian |
| Jung | Father of Subconsciousness, Swiss |
| Phrenology | Study of the skull to determine one's charatcterlistics |
| Roaring Twenties | Jazz Age |
| Flappers | Ladies in boyish cloth |
| Alcapone | Profited from demand of liquor |
| Rosie the Riveter | women work in factories |
| The Cold War | Roosevelt and Stalin parted ways |
| Propaganda | turning people against communism |