The Industrial Revolution
A ready supply of money
What is capital?
A philosophy based on tradition and social stability.
What is conservatism?
A reliance on military strength.
What is militarism?
A vocabulary word for popular vote.
What is plebiscite?
The movement of people from the rural countryside to cities.
What is urbanization?
A political philosophy based on Enlightenment principles that held that people should be as free as possible from government restraint.
What is liberalism?
A leader who had a sense of duty and moral respectability. This leader's reforms also contributed to Britain's prosperity and economic growth.
Who is Queen Victoria?
A mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower and middle class life as it actually was.
What is realism?
A German term for emperor.
What is Kaiser?
An invention that increased the need for coal and led to an expansion in coal production.
What is the steam engine?
The term for great powers who had the right to send armies into countries where there were revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs to their thrones.
What is principle of intervention?
The Prussian Prime Minister whose policies led to the defeat of the Austrian and French powers and ultimately the unification of Germany.
Who is Count Otto Von Bismarck?
An idea that plant and animal life had evolved over a long period of time from earlier and simpler forms of life.
What is organic evolution?
Parliament formed of German rulers in 1848.
What is the Frankfurt Assembly?
A process used to burn away impurities in crude iron, called pig iron, and produce an iron of high quality.
What is puddling?
The Austrian Empire was known as this because it consisted of Germans, Poles, Croats, Serbians, Romanians, Italians, Slovaks, and Czechs.
What is a multinational state?
The Italian states conquered by Giuseppe Garibaldi, which he turned over to Piedmont.
What is the Kingdom of Two Sicilies (Naples and Sicily)?
Darwin's belief that some organisms were more adaptable to the environment than others
What is natural selection?
The term for the production of goods that took place in rural homes.
What is the cottage industry?
Two reasons some of the 1848 revolutions were unsuccessful.
What is revolutionaries were divided in their goals (moderate v. liberals v. radicals; divisions in nationalities, etc.)?
The agreement that created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
What is the Compromise of 1867?
The two authors of the Communist Manifesto. The terms for the middle class and working class.
Who are Marx and Engels? What are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
This meeting lasted 9 months where all the heads of state of Europe were gathered to arrange a final peace settlement after almost 10 years of war. This Austrian Foreign minister and host to the Austrian emperor Francis I arranged a committee.
What is the Congress of Vienna, and Klemens Von Metternich?