Reconstruction Era
The President is empowered to use the military to protect US citizens from terrorist organizations within the United States by THIS one of three Empowerment Acts.
What is the Third?
An Amendment is a ____ ____ that is ratified and added to the Constitution, or to a legal document.
What is a New Rule?
Queen Victoria is given the title "Empress of India" in ____ by the British Parliament.
What is 1876?
Sultan Abdulhamid II ruled over the _______ ______ in the 1870s.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
___ _______: Volume I was the only part of the grand three volume work on money and wealth being generated by the hard labor of the Proletariat that Marx was able to finish. Engels compiled, wrote, and edited the other two volumes based on notes Marx left behind.
What is Das Kapital?
Reconstruction came to an end when the Election of 1876 was a deadlock in the Electoral College. In 1877, the Electoral Commission bartered a compromise that ended Reconstruction and disbanded the occupying armies while allowing Rutherford B. Hayes from the _________ Party to become President.
What is Republican?
Definition: To redraw district maps that discriminate based on politics, race, religion, etc., allowing the Politicians to choose their voters.
What is Gerrymandering?
During the 1870s, due to Great Britain being a powerhouse in new technology and industry, they became known as THIS.
What is "The Workshop of the World"?
In the 1870s, due to breaking the Ottoman hold on the Balkans and the Black Sea, the Tsar of Russia referred to the Ottoman Empire by THIS unwell moniker.
What is "The Sick Man of Europe"?
Definition: The semi-rich class who own businesses and property and support the Aristocracy.
What is Bourgeoisie?
Hiram Revels has the distinction of being the first Black ___ ________, elected in 1870.
What is US Senator?
According to President Trump and many Republicans, undocumented aliens in the United States are voting en masse in our elections. One of the ways of securing our elections would be introducing Special _ _ Laws, which the Democrats say disenfranchise the poor and people of color.
What is ID Laws?
The British Empire claimed they held ___________ over their colonies and territorial powers, such as South Africa and India, due to the Right of Conquest.
What is Sovereignty?
The Ottoman Empire was a theocratic monarchy, which made its ruler also the highest _________ authority in the Empire.
What is religious?
According to Karl Marx and _________ ______, all of human history is the history of a class struggle.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
This famous victorious General of the Army was elected in 1868 under the slogan, "Let us have Peace!"
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
The Civil Rights Amendment of the 1970s made discrimination against someone for economic reasons as well as racial reasons was illegal, forever removing the stain of these fees one had to pay in order to vote.
What is a Poll Tax?
The Irish Potato Famine is considered by many historians to be a manufactured atrocity because had the English government simply given relief and changed the _______ laws, it wouldn't have cost the lives of a million native Irish or sent nearly two million of their countrymen seeking asylum across the world.
What is dietary?
THIS artificial waterway cut travel from India to England by 4,300 miles.
What is the Suez Canal?
Define: Manifesto
What is a public statement that explains the goals and ideals of a group or individual?
Over 1,500 black men were elected to serve in Southern State Legislatures between the years ____ and ____.
What is 1870 and 1887?
In the time of the Slave South, most of the Slave States made it illegal to teach the slaves to ____, which was monopolized in the 1870s when those same States required people be able to ____ in order to vote.
What is read?
Following the death of Prince ______ of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at 42, Queen Victoria remained in mourning for her husband for the rest of her life. She died at 81.
Who is Prince Albert?
The Zulu outnumbered the British Forces at __________ a little over 13 to 1. The Zulu brought over 20,000 soldiers to drive off a British force of 1,500, proving numbers eventually outweigh technological advancement.
What is Isandlwana?
Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels rejects the ideals of other ___________, claiming that they focus on Force being the primary manipulator of Power Dynamics throughout history, while it is instead the control of revenue and wealth, which is why, he argues, only a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, not a Utopian State, can break this cycle.
What are Socialists?
Founded in 1866 as a terrorist organization (they thought of themselves as a militia/knightly order) with the central cause of disenfranchising the freed slaves.
What is the KKK?
Consolidating _______ ______, where people gather to vote, also disenfranchises poorer Americans who are now forced to travel further in order to vote.
What are polling places?
The Victorian Era is a rather British-centric consideration of world history during a period of chaos, coal, steam, electricity, and severe oppression of the working classes possibly better known as the __________ Revolution.
What is Industrial?
The Ottoman Empire is named in a way after its founder, Osman I. "Ottoman" comes from the _______ stop on the "s" in Osman, making it sound like "Ottman".
What is a glottal stop?
While the German and English Communists found great pushback from Democratic Socialists and Trade Unionists as well as opposing political philosophies, the teachings of Marx and Engels, especially Das Kapital and Anti-Dühring, became the bedrock of a revolution led by THIS founder of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?