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Ch. 15: Section 4- Terms
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12th Grade
03/12/2009

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Serfdom

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Definition
bound the peasants living and working in rural areas
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Autocracy[image]
Definition
a government in which one person rules with unlimited authority.
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Emancipation[image]
Definition
freeing of the serfs.
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"God Save the Czar"[image]
Definition
A hymn that students from the Corps of Pages wanted to sing to the Czar.
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Mirs

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Russian peasant communities
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Zemstvos

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These were local councils with powers to provide roads, schools and medical services set up by Alexander II in 1864
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Anarchy

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lack of government
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Populism[image]
Definition
an American movement that started in 1891 with the founding of the Populist Party
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[image]Zemstvo Election[image]
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only the nobility, wealthy townspeople, and peasants could vote.
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Pogroms[image]
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Slaughtering of the Jews
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Constitutional Monarchy[image]
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A monarchy in which the powers of the ruler are restricted to those granted under the constitution and laws of the nation.

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Serf labor

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 the enforced labor of serfs on the fields of landowners, in return for protection and the right to work on their leased fields
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Treaty

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marked the temporary decline of Russian power in East Asia
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[image]Nationl Duma[image]
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national legislature
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Slavs

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Definition
lived in the Balkan peninsula, war, suited the governemtns imperial ambitions.
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