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Chapter 24
The Building of European Supremacy
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History
10th Grade
02/24/2008

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Gottlieb Daimler

Definition
  • German engineer
  • created the automobile utilizing the internal combustion engine
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Henry Ford

Definition
  • American engineer
  • made automobiles accesible to large numbers of people
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Married Woman's Property Act
Definition
  • passed in Great Britain
  • allowed married women to own property in their own right
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Marry Wollstonecraft
Definition
  • The Vindication of the Rights of Women
  • applied the revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to the predicament of women
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Definition
  • led a radical branch of British feminists
  • founded the Women's Social and Political Union
  • followers known as suffragetes
  • argued for the extention for the votes of women
  • imprisoned by liberal government
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Bessemer process
Definition
  • a new process to manufacture steel cheaply
  • discovered by Henry Bessemer
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Second Industrial Revolution
Definition
  • steel, chemicals, electricity, and oil
  • application of electricity
  • increased production of sulfuric acid and laundry soap
  • automobiles
  • Germany → main source for scientific research and education
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Fabian Society
Definition
  • Britain's most influential socialist group
  • mainly composed of civil servants that believed reform could be achived gradually, peacefully, and democratically
  • took its name from Q. Fabius Maximus → avoided any direct contact that might lead to defeat
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Jean Jaurès

Definition
  • leader of the French Socialists
  • believed that socialists should cooperate with the middle class Radical ministries to ensure the enactment of needed social legisltaion
  • advicated reconciliation with the state 
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syndicalism
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  • doctrine embraced by socialists
  • expounded in Reflections on Violence
  • advocates bringing industry and government under the control of federations of labor unions by the use of direct actions
  • strikes commonly suppressed by the middle class Radical ministry troops
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SPD
Definition
  • AKA the German Social Democratic Party
  • kept Marxist socialism alive during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • devided between those who advocated reform and those who advocated revolution
  • worked for electoral rights, expansion of its membership, and short term political & social reform
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Duma
Definition
  • representative body announced by Nicholas II
  • adter being dissolved twice, the third one was elected on the basis of a more conservative franchise
  • moderate liberals of the body approved new land measures brought forth by Stolypin
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