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Industrial Revolution, -isms, and Age of Metternich

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Industrial Revolution   going to machine made production instead of domestic system (great economic change); mid-late 1700s in GB  
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Neolithic Revolution   the first agricultural revolution; shift from hunting and gathering to farming  
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capital   wealth used to create more wealth  
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enclosure acts   Parliament decides to enclose mini farms and give to big farmers; to include everyone in more productive 18th century farming; NOT government taking over the land  
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mills   aka factories; displaced farmers would work here; bad conditions, overcrowded; takes awhile for reform to happen  
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Boulton and Watt   created the steam engine; allowed mills and factories to be powered by something besides water (dont have to be by rivers anymore)  
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George Spehenson's Rocket   early steam locomotive  
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textiles   cotton (GB no longer needs to get it from India)  
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Manchester   famous, prototype of an industrialized British city; has no representation in Parliament, so it takes awhile to reform (plus economic capitalism - Adam Smith laissez-faire)  
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cotton lords   like factory is the manor; want to replace, think as a new nobility  
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Factory Act   first reforms for mills; no extreme child labor  
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laissez-faire   Adam Smith; government stays out of the affairs of business (not regulated); takes awhile for reform to happen in Parliament (plus Napoleon)  
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iron law of wages   the doctrine or theory that wages tend toward a level sufficient only to maintain a subsistence standard of living; if I pay you more, you'll have more kids; agruement that the government/businessmen are on your side  
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dismal science   population would always grow faster than food, dooming mankind to unending poverty and hardship; aka life sucks  
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romanticism   more of a movement, philosophy, antienlightenment; cant ignore other side of humanity, feelings and nature; would like Dark Ages; right wing but NOT a political movement  
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monarchism   wants absolute monarchy; still there, but old school and right wing by early-mid 19th century  
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conservatism   general, blanket term; protect the status quo and resist change (tradition); for mid 1800s, conservatives are mostly nobles  
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liberalism   generic, blanket term - always same spot, what they want will change; willingness to change and reform; bourgeoisie, common wealthy people; want just enough change to benefit them, but no more  
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radicalism   immediate, sweeping, drastic change; for majority of people, working class (factory workers); different kinds; economic line: to right- political change only, to left-political and economic change  
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republicanism   NOT republican party today; freely elect representatives, NOT a monarchy; radical right up to economic line  
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socialism   government owns business, plans economy, and pays you a just wage to everyone in society  
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Marxism   gov takes over economy (all things socialist); eventually elimination of wealth and private property MORE LATER  
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communism   no longer need for economics (bye bye private property); share burden and benefits together; all comm. are socialists, but not all socail. are comm.  
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nationalism   draw lines around themselves (country) for religion, race, etc, and declaring yourself sovereign; term itself is right, we're different than you- can go crazy and say i'm better; its gonna take a revolution: its cool new to do this; in reality, LEFT WING  
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constitutionalism   have a constituion that limits the government  
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humanitarianism   leftish if gov gives moeny,; charity is more of a rightish mode  
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feminism   left wing, but right of economic line; if you dont know what this is, you're stupid  
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individualism   gotta fend for yourself, laissez-faire; pretty moderate  
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capitalism   depends on what you want  
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Metternich   Austrian foreign minister who orchestrated Europe's affairs after Napoleon; main goal was to maintain a system in Europe with Hapsburgs on top (conservatism)  
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Carlsbad Decrees   a set of regulations designed to check the growth of liberalism and nationalism in Germany; 1819  
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Six Acts of 1819   GB; demonstration in St. Peter's Fields for liberal reforms was violently put down; ended any revolutionary possibilities in GB  
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Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818)   powers withdraw forces from France; Alexander I suggests a European union w/international military forces; powers blocked this idea  
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Congress of Troppay (1820)   mett turns Alex I reactionary; Mett wanted to unite the powers in collective security against revolution; Fr and GB reject proposal; Austria, Russia, and Prussia agree- forming a type of anti-revolutionary alliance  
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Congress of Verona (1822)   Greek revolutiionary attempt to convert the Turkish empire to a Greek empire failed with little international support; French troops are authorized to invade Spain and successfully resotre the church and king  
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Monroe Doctrine   succesfully contributed to the reactionary movement of not spreading to Euro colonies to Western Hemisphere  
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Russian Decemberist Revolt   after Alexander I's death; succession dispute; 1st modern revolutionary movement in Russia, as rebels called for a constiution for Russia; Constance please take throne? but Nichola I takes it  
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Charles X of France   resisted reform in France until rioting in July of 1830 forced his abdication; succeded by 'compromise' king, Louis Phillipe  
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Belgium was guaranteed as a ____ state because of the Treaty of Vienna   neutral (forbid invasion)  
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disappearance of 'Congress Poland'   Polish revolution in 1830, crushed under Nicholas I; incorporated into the Russian Empire  
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Reform Bill of 1832   reallocated the seats in the House of Commons  
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Factory Act of 1833   forbad the labor of children less than nine years old in the textile mills  
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Ten Hours Act of 1847   limited the labor of women and kids to ten hours a day  
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Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846   lowered tariffs on imported farm products; resulted in British dependence on world economy  
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Congress of Vienna (maybe repeat, but idk)   want to keep the land around France strong; restore all original monarchs back in power; balance of power between 5 Great Powers (GB, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia_  
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St. Peter's Fields   aka Peterloo; reform movement in GB  
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Constantine (of Russia)   Constantine and Constitution; old, but favored some modernization  
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Nicholas I (of Russia)   more of a good old fashioned Russian czar  
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