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Auburn HIST 1020-004 Exam 2
Cards for Sean Seyer's HIST 1020 Spring 2014 Exam 2
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Undergraduate 4
02/20/2014

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Muhammad Ali
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Egyptian Ruler, comes to power After Napoleon. Wanted to Modernize Egypt, got into huge debt.
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East India Company
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Given Trade Monopoly in India in 1601 by Eliz I, took control of India in 1757 and collected taxes.
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Sepoys
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Indian soldiers fighting for the British.
Started rebellion in 1857 after it was rumored that rifle cartridges contained animal fat.
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Battle of Plessy
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Battle which gave East India Company power to tax people in Bengal. (1757)
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Nabob Era
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Characterized by company men going to india, pumping as much wealth from it as they could, and then returning to England. Hands off approach by East India Company with regards to governing. Between 1757 and 1770
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Sati
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Indian custom of widows throwing themselves or being thrown on their husband's funeral pyre. Used as reason for East India Act. (1813)
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Thugee
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Purported Indian ritualistic killing of travelers. Used as excuse for East India Act. (1813)
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Indian National Congress
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Founded in 1885, quickly became push for Indian independence.
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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Treaty between USA and Britain to prevent slave trade. Started the Africa Squadron, ship patrol preventing slaveships from traversing Atlantic. 1842.
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The Durham Report
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1839 report stating that Canada must be united into a single political entity, and that the white colonies should be accountable to representatives at home rather than abroad.
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Congress of Vienna
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1814-1815. Stated that only legit govts were those that existed before the French Revolution. Established balance of power within Europe.
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John Stuart Mill
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Associated with Humanitarianism
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Prince Klemens von Metternick
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At Congress of Vienna, argued for legitimacy of only pre-french revolution governments.
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Edmund Burke
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Conservative writer in restoration Europe
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Jeremy Bentham
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Known for Utilitarianism
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Spanish Revolution of 1820
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Unsuccesssful, French intervention.
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Italian Revolutions of 1821 and 1831
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Unsuccessful, Austrian Intervention
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Greek War of Independance
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1821-1830, Successful. London Protocol of 1821 established the new Greek state.
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French Revolution of 1830
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Conservative revolution, successful.
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Peterloo Massacre
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In Britain 1819, protestors fired upon, women injured.
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Reform Bill of 1832
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In Britain, allowed unions and penal code reformed.
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