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| 615687100 | Age of Revolution | *1775 to 1848 change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics. also includes: the American Revolution, the Greek Rev the French Revolution, The Haitian Rev the Haitian Revolution, the revolt of the slaves in Latin America, | |
| 615687101 | population revolution | *1730 Huge growth in population in Western Europe *before the Industrial Revolution * population of France increased 50 percent, England and Prussia 100 percent. | |
| 615687102 | guillotine | a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution. | |
| 615687103 | nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | |
| 615711996 | conservatives | people who generally favor limited government and are cautious about change | |
| 615711997 | Radicals | *This group hated the king, *wanted drastic and sweeping changes *advocated the use of violence in the name of the revolution | |
| 615711998 | transformismo | political system in italy that allied conservatives and liberals in support of the status quo (existing condition) | |
| 615724108 | social question | Issues relating to repressed classes in Western Europe during the Industrial Revolution, particularly workers and women | |
| 615724109 | socialism | an economic system in which the government owns: * the basic means of production, * distributes the products and wages * provides social services such as health care and welfare | |
| 615724110 | revisionism | Socialist thought that disagreed with Marx's formulation * believed that social and economic progress could be achieved through existing political institutions. | |
| 615724111 | feminist movement | (1900)The struggle of women in the for equality: *wanted equal pay for equal work *wanted passage of an Equal Rights Amendment | |
| 615840509 | mass leisure culture | Was later in the Industrial Revolution aspects included: * decreased time at work *new forms of leisure time like vacation trips and team sports. | |
| 615840510 | romanticism | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization | |
| 615840511 | Louis XVI | (1774-1792) King of France * wouldn't grant reforms so led to the French Revolution * he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined | |
| 615840512 | Napoleon Bonaparte | (1769-1821)French general *emperor of the French * conqueredmuch of Europe, *placing his relatives in positions of power | |
| 615840513 | Louis Pasteur | (1822-1881)French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization | |
| 615840514 | Benjamin Disraeli | (1804-1881).He served in government in four decades *Prime Minister of Great Britain 2 times, *Helped in the creation of the modern Conservative Party | |
| 615840515 | Count Camillo di Cavour | *named prime minister of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel * he led the northern troops to victory and unification of Italy | |
| 615840516 | Otto Van Bismarck | Prime Minister of Prussia (largest state in Northern Germany) *worked to establish peace in germany * viewed France as his greatest threat | |
| 615840517 | Karl Marx | (1818-1883) founder of modern communism. *wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; *wrote Das Kapital in 1867 | |
| 615840518 | Charles Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) | |
| 615840519 | Albert Einstein | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity: states that time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed. | |
| 615840520 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind Founder of psychoanalysis | |
| 615840521 | Industrial Revolution | 18th and 19th century where big social, economic, and technological change occurred in Great Britain. *introduction of steam power (fueled primarily by coal) *automated steam powered machinery in textile industry steam-powered ships, boats and railways | |
| 615840522 | American Revolution | The war between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies from 1775 to 1783 that led to the founding of the United States of America. | |
| 615840523 | Declaration of the Rights of Man (check this) | (1789)Revolutionary document of the French Revolution. *said that certain rights believed to be universal to all mankind. *similar to American Declaration of Independence. | |
| 615840524 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon I. | |
| 615840525 | Greek Revolution | Rebellion in Greece against the Ottoman Empire in 1820; key step in gradually dismantling the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. | |
| 615840526 | Reform Bill of 1832 | British legislation that extended the vote to most male members of the middle class.eliminated "rotten boroughs", | |
| 615840527 | American Civil War | 1861-1865: War between North (union states) and South (confederate states) over slavery and succeeding. | |
| 615840528 | Triple Alliance | An alliance between : Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI. | |
| 615840529 | Triple Entente | An alliance between: Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | |
| 615840530 | Balkan nationalism | Movements to create independent nations within the Balkan possessions of the Ottoman Empire; eventually led to World War I. |
