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industrial revolution
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Robert Owen
Definition
-Scottish manufacturer who worked to help stop child-labor.
-Later he set up utopian socialist communities, including one in New Harmony; Indiana.
-Tried to set up a national union in Britain. 1
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Chartist Movement
Definition
-The British workers movement of the mid-1800's that demanded:
-The vote for all men.
-A 10-hour work day.
-Duty-free (cheap) bread. 2
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Quadruple Alliance (1814)
Definition
-Russia, Prussia, Austria and Great Britain.
-United to defeat Napoleon (France).
-After victory, they met in Vienna to plan the peace settlement. 3
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Peace of Paris
Definition
-Peace settlement between France and the Quadruple Alliance that ended the Napoleonic Wars.
-Re-established traditional (conservative governments in Europe. 4
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Congress of Vienna
Definition
-Meetings of all the European powers in 1814-1815.
-Purpose: to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon and to plan for peace.
-CONSERVATIVE!
-Led by Metternich of Austria. 5
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Klemens von Metternich
Definition
-Conservative foreign minister of Austria.
-"Architect" of the Peace of Paris following the defeat of Napoleon.
-Leader of the Congress of Vienna. 6
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Robert Castlereagh
Definition
-Foreign minister from Great Britain to the Congress of Vienna. 7
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Charles Talleyrand
Definition
-French foreign minister to the Congress of Vienna.
-His skill led to the best agreement France (the loser) could hope for. 8
Term
Monroe Doctrine
Definition
-U.S. Policy that told European countries to keep their hands off the "New World." 9
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Conservativism
Definition
-Political philosophy that believes in protecting the existing traditional forms of government or returning to those of a former time.
-In the 1800's: philosophy ofthe aristocracy. 10
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
-The shift from muscle power to machine power.
-Began in England in the mid-1700's.
-Cotton Textile Industry was 1 st. 11
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James Har real'
Definition
-Invented the cotton-spinning jenny around 1765.
-Increased the amount of cotton thread. 12
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Richard Arkwright
Definition
-Invented the water frame for spinning cotton thread in 1765. 13
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Samuel Crompton
Definition
-Invented the Spinning Mule.
-Made a strong, fine, even thread.14
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Edmund Cartwright
Definition
-Invented the power loom around 1785.
-Wasn't good enough to replace weavers until around 1800. 15
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James Watt
Definition
-Scottish professor who worked many years to improve the steam engine.
-Made it usable by the late 1780's. 16
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Henry Cort
Definition
-Developed the puddling furnace (1780's).
-Turned pig iron into coke.
-Also developed rolling mills.
-Iron became the cheap, basic, building block for the 1800's. 17
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The Great Exposition
Definition
-Industrial fair held in London in 1851 in the Crystal Palace.
-Proved Britain was the "workshop of the world". 18
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Thomas Malthus
Definition
-Economist who wrote Essay on the Principle of Population (1798).
-He said the population would always grow faster than the food supply. 19
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David Ricardo
Definition
-English economist who put forth the "iron law of wages."
-Population increase would keep wages at the subsistence level. 20
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Factory Act of 1833
Definition
-Limited the use of child labor in England. 21
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Classical Liberalism
Definition
-Political philosophy of limited government and protection of individual rights and freedoms.
-In the 1800's: philosophy of the bourgeoisie. 22
Term
Radicals
Definition
-Democrats and Republicans in the 1800's.
-They believed each man should have a vote.
-More willing to use violence to gain power. 23
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Nationalism
Definition
-A feeling of loyalty for one's own land and people.
-The belief that one's greatest loyalty should be to one's country.
-Led to independence movements and unification movements in the 1800's. 24
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Charles Fourier
Definition
-French Utopian Socialist.
-System based on math: 1620 people living on 5,000 acres.
-FREE LOVE!!!
-Several utopian societies set up in U.S. 25
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Karl Marx
Definition
-Father of Socialism.
-Co-author of Communist Manifesto.
-German economist who stressed class
-struggle. 26
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Friedrich Engels
Definition
-Less famous co-author of Communist Manifesto.
-Also a German socialist. 27
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Romanticism
Definition
-A revolt against Classicism and the Enlightenment. -It emphasized imagination, emotion, passion, and nature.
-Influenced the arts and fueled nationalism.
-Reaction against "thinking". 28
Term
Romantic PoetslWriters
Definition
-English: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelly and Keats.
-French: Lamartine, deVigny, Hugo, Dumas and Sand.
-German: Grimm Brothers. 29
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Romantic Artists
Definition
-French: Delacroix.
-English: Turner and Constable. 30
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