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Ch. 25 Study Guide
Bedford's World Civ. since 1500s Ch. 25 Study Guide
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03/01/2010

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What social and legal disabilities did women face?
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Property rights, family law, education
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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British; women's rights advocate; applied revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to the predicament of women in "The Vindication of Rights of Women"
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suffragettes
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British women who lobbied and agitated for the right to vote in the early twentieth century
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pogroms
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organized riots against Jews in the Russian Empire
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"The Communist Manifesto"
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written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles (German); most influential political document of modern European history; contended that human history must be understood rationally; history is record of humankind's coming to grips with physical nature to produce the goods necessary for survival, determining the structures, values and ideas of a society
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Fabian socialists
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British socialists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who sought to achieve socialism through gradual, peaceful, and democratic means
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Bolsheviks
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Meaning the “majority” Term Lenin applied o t his faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. It because the Communist Party of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution
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What were the advantages for immigrants to the United States?
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Vast opportunity for white European immigrants; social and economic structures of US allowed for assimilation and remarkable upward social mobility;
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What were the obstacles for immigrants to the US?
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immigrants faced religious and ethic discrimination as well as frequent poverty
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Who were the Progressives?
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Reform-minded political figures; upper-middle-class whites who feared a less of political and social influence; found urban environment unacceptable; wanted more efficient govt acting as direct agent of change and reform; lower utility rates and streetcar fares; anti-boss politics
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Social Gospel
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churches that joined Progressive crusade; preached that Christianity involved civic action; worked in settlement houses in slums; housing and health reform, education, charities;
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natural selection
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according to Darwin, the process in nature by which only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genes, while those less adapted tend to be eliminated
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relativity
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theory of physics, first expounded by Einstein, in which time and space exist not separately, but rather as a combined continuum
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