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40 Cards in this Set
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Prinzep
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Who was the Serbian “terrorist” who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
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Algiceras
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At which conference did most of Europe turn against German claims to Morocco and actually back France?
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June Days
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During a period lasting several days in June 1848, riots broke out in Paris that effectively put an end to the Revolution of 1848 in France. Those riots were known as the ______________.
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Frederick William IV
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Who was king of Prussia during the Revolution of 1848?
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Lord Grey
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Which British prime minister passed the Great Reform Act of 1830 which redistricted much of the United Kingdom and made the country much more democratic?
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Louis Napoleon
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Who was the leading socialist in France during the Revolution of 1848?
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Textile
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What was the first industry in Britain to industrialize?
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Boer war
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Britain’s near defeat in the ____________ War cause a search for allies and an initial overture to Germany.
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Schlieffan
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The ________________ Plan called for Germany to attack France as soon as the Russian army began to mobilize before World War I.
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Elbe
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Napoleon was exiled to the island of ________ before his escape and eventual defeat at Waterloo.
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Luddite
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Workers, disgruntled with the Industrial Revolution, sought to destroy the machines themselves in the _________ Riots or Movement.
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Social Darwinism
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___________ ______________ is the belief that stronger nations and cultures must destroy weaker ones for the evolution of society.
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Nelson
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Who defeated Napoleon both at the Battle of the Nile and Trafalgar?
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Strikes
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What is the main weapon that labor unions have to use against management? _________________
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1. Large navy
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Name two reasons why the Industrial Revolution happened first in Britain and not somewhere else.
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evangelists
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As a response to the industrial revolution, some Christian religions became ________________.
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Thomas Edison
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Who invented the electric light? _______________
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Daimler
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Who developed the internal combustion engine?
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Irish Potato Famine
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What terrible event in the mid 1800s seemed to justify the reasoning of “An Essay on Population,” and the “Iron Law of Wages?” ________________
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Spain
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What small nation was Napoleon unable to defeat, arguably because it too was for the first time fighting as a nation? _____________
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Entente
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In 1904 Britain signed a “friendly agreement” or __________ with France.
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Italy, Germany, Austria
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The Triple Alliance at the outbreak of World War I included __________, ____________, and ____________.
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Rupert Brooke
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Who wrote the Poem “Peace?”
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Who invented the Cotton Gin? ______________
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Eli Whitney
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William II allowed the ____________ treaty with Russia to lapse, pushing the Russians into the arms of France.
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Reinsurance
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Prussia defeated France at the Battle of
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Sedan
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After suffering through the Russian winter Napoleon suffered his first major defeat in the Battle of
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Waterloo
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Who invented the Flying Shuttle?
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John Kay
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This group advocated NO government, and wanted their goal immediately. They tried to gain their goal by assassination and bombings.
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Anarchism
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Modern day Turkey was at the time of World War I known as the _______________ Empire.
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Ottoman
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Who took power in France after the Revolution of 1848? _____________
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Louis Napoleon
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Who developed the “Iron Law of Wages” which stated that paying over a subsistence wage would simply cause workers to have too many children and would result in famine?
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David Ricardo
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Nat Turner
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Who led the Slave Revolt in the US south in 1831?
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Mill
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Who helped to soften the ideals of Liberalism by arguing that there ought to be somewhat better factory working conditions and pay
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The north fundamentally restructuring the defeated south
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Reconstruction was
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The _______ __________ Laws legalized segregation in the Reconstruction South.
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jim crowe
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The proletariat is often referred to as
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The working class
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Who were the new political force which wanted government ownership of the means of production
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Socialist
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What was the most effective punishment that a plantation owner could threaten to keep his slaves from attempting to escape? ___________
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lynching
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____________ ____________ was a Utopian Socialist who believed that all one had to do was demonstrate the superiority of the Socialist system by constructing Socialists factories.
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Robert Owen
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