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BU WVC 220
History III Part 1
Question | Answer |
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Anarchism I | Wanted to eliminate the state entirely, not just capture control of it. Believed revolutionary terrorism(assassination of a head of state) would trigger world revolution that would end all authority. |
Anarchism II | Leading authorities - Prince Peter Kroptkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Pierre Joseph Proudhon Assassinated leaders - Tsar Alex II, French President Carnot, Italian King Humbert, American President McKinley |
Battle of Waterloo | June 18, 1815 Napoleon defeated (by Duke of Wellington and Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard von Bulcher) in Belgium |
Battle of Trafalgar | October 21, 1805 defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson |
Bourgeoisie | middle class |
capitalism | economic system that became dominant during demise of feudalism, particularly during 19th and 20th centuries. was the main means of industrialization throughout much of the world |
Communist Manifesto | 1848. Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. presents analytic approach to the class struggle and the problems of capitalism |
Conservatism I | in general, rejected basic assumptions of Enlightenment and French Revolution (natural rights, equality, goodness of man, perpetual progress, etc.) |
Conservatism II | rejected belief that people are by nature good. Instead, they are by nature wicked. Their evil is held in check by tried and tested institutions, beliefs, and traditions. |
Conservatism III | Rejected individualism because it fragmented society by destroying its organic unity. Accepted a natural hierarchical society. Constitutional monarchy was ideal, supported by established church such as one that existed in Great Britain. |
Continental System | also known as (Continental Blockade), was foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against UK during Napoleonic Wars. Began November 21, 1806 and ended April 11, 1814. |
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as a Universal. Fundamental document of the French Revolution. Influenced by doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal |
Dialectic materialism | type of Marxism, synthesizing Hegel's dialectics(thesis, antithesis, synthesis) |
Directory | a body of 5 directors that held executive power in France after the Convention and before the Consulate. November 1795 to November 1799, known as Directory Era |
Encyclopedia | by Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert. published between 1751 and 1777, with 33 volumes total. |
Essay Concerning Human Understanding | by John Locke, 1690. describes mind as a blank slate(Tabula Rasa) which gets filled through life experiences. One of principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, influenced many (including David Hume, and George Berkeley) |
First, Second, and Third Estates | 1)Clergy 2)Nobility 3)Commoners medieval ranking of importance in society |
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century | by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 1899. talks about various racist and (particularly Volkish [meaning "ethnic or diverse"]) antisemitic theories on how the Aryan race was superior to others. |
French National Assembly |