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European History
Quiz 1
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History
Undergraduate 2
02/23/2012

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Kulturkampf
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Kulturkampf (literally: culture struggle) was an attempt at limiting the power the Roman catholic church had in Prussia at the time. It appealed numerous amounts of secular elements, and was supported by the Protestants and Liberal Germans.
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Piedmont
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the Piedmont was a region in italy. it was the most powerful at the time of italy's unification.
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Risorgimento
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the risorgimento was a newspaper. it discussed italian unification.
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Chartism
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Chartism was a British reform in in the mid 1800's who goal was to make it more accessible for the poor to get into Parliament.
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"Property is theft"
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A slogan coined by the French Anarchist or Socialist, communist, or whatever he feels like being when he wakes up in the morning, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. the slogan originates in his book "What is Property". He argues that Property is used to keep the necassry goods away from the people, and thus saw it as theft.
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Dialectual materialism
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as an economic system grows it gets closer to the factors that will lead to its decline
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Imagined Communities
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Zollverein
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It was Prussia.
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The Volk
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The volk means folk in german. it was associated with the people of germany during the nationalist movement.
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Thermidorian Reaction
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The Thermidorian reaction was essentially a revolt that was against the Reign of Terror that had been going on in France after the fall of the french Monarchy.
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Code Napoleon
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A Code of law Established by Napoleon I of France, it discontinued privileges inherited by birth, and allowed Freedom of Religion in France, and made certain government positions go to the most qualified person.
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The Levee en Masse
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the Levee en Masse was mass conscription of the people during the eyars of the French Revolution
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The Spinning Jenny
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A Machine that allowed to produce cotton products at amazing speeds compared to before its invention. It was a byproduct of the industrial revolution, making its way in Britain first.
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Cotton
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A material that grows from the ground and can be used to make clothing and sheets and shit like that. Essentially there was a giant cotton boom during the Industrial Revolution, and this increased the demand for Cotton due to its numerous amounts of uses, such as clothing, linens, and food if your fucking retarded.
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Bank of England
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Estates-General
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The Estates-General was a assembly in France that served as a legislative adviser to the King of France. It had no legitimate power in checking the power of the king which is a system that the British parliament had. The most notable thing about the Estates General was that it represented each of the three estates
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Tennis Court Oath
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The Tennis Court Oath was an event that would draft a new constitution for the first republic of France. Hundreds of members of the Third Estate were denied access to the Genera-Estates, and as a result held their own version, in which a new constitution was drafted that guarenteed the rights of man
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The Rights of Man and Citizen
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A drastic document to the French Revolution that declared that under the new French Revolutionary government that the Revolutionary French government would respect the rights of the people, offering such amnities such as freedom of religion, and ending heriditary positions. Notable people who were instrumental in its creatin include Voltaire.
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