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Western Civ. II
Chapter 19-21
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Undergraduate 1
02/27/2012

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beatings
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A frequent method employed to make the many very young boys and girls working in new British industries obey the owner;s factory discipline was repeated ____.
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French
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A key conduit of "enlightenment" American political and moral ideas back to Europe was formed by ____ army and navy officers who had fought with the Americans during the Revolutionary War.
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German de Stael
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A prominent writer who denounced Napoleon's despotic rule was ____.
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Haiti
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A successful slave rebellion against French rule occured in ____.
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Louis XVII
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After Napoleon's defeat, the Quadruple Alliance restored the old Bourbon monarchy to France on the person of ____.
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legitimacy
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At the Congress of Vienna, the Austrian representative Prince Metternich pursued the policy of ____, meaning he wished to restore legitimate monarchs on their thrones, preserving traditional institutions and values.
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married
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Before 1799, Napoleon was initially  disliked by his fellow soliders, read military history, saved the National Convention for the 1795 Parisian mob and he ____ the widow of a guillotined general.
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factories
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Britain's cotton industry in the late eighteenth century was responsible for the creation of modern ____.
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labor
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Britain's emergence as the first industrial power was aided by rapid growth population, surplus of ____, the agricultural revolution, ready markets, and a developed financial system.
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Italian 
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By 1815, following the Congress of Vienna, the ____ peninsula remained divided into several state subjects to the domination of other European powers.
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265
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By 1850, the European population was over____ million.
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10%
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By 1860 what percent of the population in cities held 70 to 80 percent of the wealth in America?
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1000
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By 1860, there were about ____ steamboats on the Mississipps.
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freedom
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Central to the liberal ideology in the nineteenth century was an emphasis on individual ____.
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freedom
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Central to the liberal ideology in the nineteenth century was on individual ____
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unskilled
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Compared to Britain, American Industrialization was captial-intensive endeavor because there were more ____ workers/laborers in America.
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rebellion
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Compared to the American revolution, the French revolution was more of an example/model of ____.
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middle class
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Demographic changes that resulted from idustrialization saw the new ____ move to the suburbs of cities to escape the urban poor.
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bourgeoise
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During the Reign of Terror, the majority of the victims were ____.
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women and children
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Efforts at industrial reform in the 1830's and 1840's in Great Britain included a reduction of working hours for children to no more than 12 hours a day, outlawed ____ in coal mines, required daily education for working children, and appointment of governemnt factory inspectors.
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public health
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Filthy sanitary conditions were exacerbated by the city authorities' slow response to make responsibility for ____.
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Young Italy
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Giuseppe Mazzini's nationalist organization, ____, failed to achieve his goal of "resurgence" by 1849
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puddling
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Henry Cort was responsible for the process in iron smelting known as ____.
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Louis Phillipe 
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IN July revolution of 1830, ____ succeeded Charles X as king of the French
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Arsenal, prisoner
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In 1789, the Bastille was an ____ and a ____.
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cotton
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James Watt was vital to the Industrial Revolution for his invention of a rotary engine that could spin and weave ____.
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Metternich
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Klemens von ____ believed European monarch shared the common interest of stability.
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unemployment
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Louis Blanc's "national workshops" in France became little more than ____compensation units through public works projects.
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Andrew Jackson
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Mass white male democracy in the United Stated was achieved during the presidency of ____
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Risorgimento
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Mazzini's ____failed die to opposition of the French, the Austrians, and the pope.
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19th
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Members of the new industrial entrepreneurial class in the early ____ were usually resourceful individuals with diverse social backgrounds.
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Waterloo
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Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of ____.
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French
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Napoleon was both a child of the Enlightenment and the ____ Revolution.
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trade
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Napoleon's Continental System tried to defeat the British by preventing British ____.
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civil
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Napoleon's domestic policies included the ____ Code and a uniformed legal system.
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gothic
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On architectural styles, the Romantics were particularly attracted to the ____
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roads
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One of the chief reasons why Europe initially lagged behind England in industrialization was a lack of ____ and means of transportation
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children
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Primary reasins for the use of children as a source of labor in the Industrial Revolution was low-paid ____ could easily move around large industrial equiptment
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France
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Professional civilian police forces known as serjents first appeared in 1829 in ____
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Catholic
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Religiona in the age of Romanticism experianced a ____ revival especially in Germany
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Beethoven
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Romanticism in art and music was well characterized by ____, whose compositions bridged the gap between Classicism and Romanticism.
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enlightenment
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The American Revolution affected Europeans by showing that the ideas of the ____ could be politically realized.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The American romantic author of The Fall of the House of Usher was ____.
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Maximilien Robespierre
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The Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror was headed by____.
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Catholic Church
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The Concordat reestablished the ____ but limited the Pope's authority.
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Vienna
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The Congress of ____ created policies that would maintain the European balance of power.
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Vienna
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The Congress of ____ was most successful at establishing an order that managed to avoid a general European conflict for almost a century.
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3
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The Constitution of the United States of 1789 created ____ branch system of government that allows the branch to check and balance one another.
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American
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen owed much to the ideas of the ____ Declaration of Independence.
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Olympe de Gouge, men
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The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, written by ____ was totally ignored by ____.
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workhouses
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The English Poor Act of 1834 included a place of refuge for poor people, established ____, separated families, and provided awful food for the poor.
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Clergy
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The Estates-General consisted of representatives of the three orders: the Second Estate (nobles), the Third Estate (people), and the First Estate representing the ____.
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famine
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The European population explosion of the nineteenth century was primarily because of the disappearance of ____ from western Europe.
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trade, industrial
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The French economy of the eighteenth century was growing due to foreign ____ and ____ production.
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"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideas of the rebellion was ____.
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European
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The Greek revolt was successful largely due to ____ intervention
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Great Britian
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The Industrial Revolution had its beginnings in ____.
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entrepreneurs
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The Industrial Revolution in Britain was largely inspired by ____.
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roads, canals
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The Industrial Revolution in the United States required thousands of miles or ____ and ____ be constructed.
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middle
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The Industrial Revolution's effect on the standard of living benefited the ____ class.
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Russia
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The Polish national uprising of 1830 was crushed by ____
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middle
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The Reform Bill of 1832 in Britain primarily benefited the upper ____class.
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Turner
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The Romantic artist whose paintings were described as "airy visons, painted with tinted steam" ws ____
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victories
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The chief reason Napoleon's fast rise to power was/were his ____.
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France
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The colonists won their war for independence due to military and financial aid from European nations, especially ____.
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engineering
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The development of the railroads in the Industrial Revolution was important in increasing British civil and mechanical ____.
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continental
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The factors in the defeat of Napoleon included the failure of the ____ System, the defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar, spread of nationalism, and the unification of European states against him.
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Germany
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The first Continantal nations to complete establish a comprehensive railroad system were Belgium and ____.
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cotton textile
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The first step toward the Industrial Revolution in Britain occured in the ____ industry.
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Klemens von Metternich
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The foreign minister and diplomat who dominated the Congress of Vienna was ____.
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middle
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The foremost social group embracing liberalism was made up by the industrial ____ class
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military
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The government of the Directory on the period of the Thermidorean Reaction had to rely on the ____ for its survival.
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railroads
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The infrastructure advantages on Britain promoting rapid industrialization included canals, roads, bridges, and ____.
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Sorrows of the Young Wrether
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The literary model for early romanticism was ____ by Goethe
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landscapes
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The major themes/subjects of Romantic artists were ____ and depictions of nature.
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debt
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The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was the government's inability to deal with ____ and other economic problems.
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British
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The most important factor in preventing European overthrow of the newly independent nations of Latin America was ____ naval power.
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poetry
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The most important form of literary expression for the romantics was ____
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United Provinces
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The most succeddful nationalistic European revolution in 1830 was in the ____
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dangerous 
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The new social class of industrial workers in the early Industrial Revolution worked under ____ conditions for long hours.
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Ireland
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The only European country with a declining population in the nineteenth century was ____.
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Robert Peel
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The politician who introduced the legistration that established London's first professional police force was ____.
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nationalism
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The primary driving force in the revolutions of Belgium, Poland, and Italy in 1830 was ____
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interchangeable
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The so-called American system was the use of ____ parts.
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Shopkeepers, peasants, unemployes, skilled craftsman.
Definition
The third estate was composed of _____,_____,_____, and _____.
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Metternich
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The uprisings in Austria in 1848 resulted in the exile of ____
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Charles Fourier
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The utopian socialists of the first half of the nineteenth century were best characterized by ____ who envisoned phalansteries.
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industrialization
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Urbanization in the first half of the nineteenth century was tied to ____.
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Constitutional Monarchy
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What type of government eas established in France by 1791?
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Peterloo
Definition
When protestors of high bread prices in England clashed with government authorities, the resulting conflict was known as the ____ Massacre.
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Britian
Definition

When the American Revolution began, the colonial were deeply divided among themselves about revolting against_________.

 

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factories
Definition
Women who worked in the ____ of the Industrial Revolution did not result in a significant transformation in female working patterns.
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Romanticism
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____ is characterized by a strong, pantheistic worship of nature, a nationalism, and a reaction to the excesses of the Industrial Revolution.
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Thomas Malthus
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the arguement that population must be held in check for any progress to take place was popularized by ____.
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