Politics
This ideology promotes tradition and resistance to change.
What is conservatism?
This law changed farmland owned by a town or community into private property that could be bought.
What was the Combination Act?
This British scientist is best know for inventing the seed drill.
Who was Jethro Tull?
Losing this military struggle made Czar Alexander II see the need for industrialization and better railroads.
What was the Crimean War?
This German leader used realpolitik strategies to unite more than 300 German states into a single nation.
Who was Otto Von Bismark?
This ideology promotes change and champions equal rights as necessary to establish a better way of life.
What is liberalism?
By allowing only animals with certain desirable traits to breed, this process resulted in more productive livestock.
What is selected breeding?
By creating the cotton gin, he encouraged the growth of large plantations worked by hundreds of slaves.
Who was Eli Whitney?
This Russian monarch ended serfdom and the persecution of Jews before being assassinated with a bomb.
Who was Czar Alexander II?
This Italian count used diplomacy and foreign alliances to unite the many states of Italy into a single nation.
Who was Camillo Benso?
Based on logic and reason, this ideology led to the creation of science and technology.
What is the Enlightenment?
By moving each crop to a different field every year and allowing one field to go fallow, this process resulted in better crops.
What is four-field rotation?
His improved steam engine increased trade by making railroads the fastest form of travel.
Who was James Watt?
This conservative movement promoted Russian culture, the persecution of minorities and a pogrom against Jews.
What is Russification?
Fear of a new invasion by this foreign power convinced most Germans to support the unification movement.
What is France?
This ideology began as a response to the Enlightenment and expressed itself through art and literature.
What is Romanticism?
Being an island with many rivers, this nation had a trade advantage, since transportation over water is faster than over land.
What is Britain (England)?
He described capitalism as a free market controlled by the "invisible hand" of supply and demand.
Who was Adam Smith?
This failed attempt to overthrow the government was caused by the Russian army's loss to Japan, poor working conditions and the massacre of liberal protestors known as "Bloody Sunday."
What was the 1905 Revolution?
Originally King of Sardinia, he became the first King of united Italy in 1861.
Who was Emmanuel II?
This conservative leader created both the Congress of Europe and the Concert of Vienna to restore national borders and maintain absolute monarchy.
Who was Prince Metternich?
These farmers and ranchers worked for noble families and were bought and sold with the land they tended.
What are serfs?
This scientist's experiments with rats demonstrated that populations will grow beyond their food supply, leading to abnormal behavior and violence.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
This nationwide labor strike led to the end of Russia's monarchy and the creation of both a two-house legislation and a constitution.
What was the February Revolution?
Author of Das Kapital, this German philosopher created the ideology know as Marxism, which became the basis for Socialism and Communism.
Who was Karl Marx?