Age of Revolutions
Humanities & Western Civilization 1025 with Billington at Northwestern College
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Which was not one of the demands of English Chartists?
universal male suffrage
frequent parliament elections
members of parliament to receive wages
secret balloting for elections
Who is referred to as the "first modern dictator"?
1. Napoleon III
The longest reigning monarch in the history of England?
1. Queen Victoria
What nation did Austria and Prussia attack in 1864 for attempting to annex Schlewig- Holstein?
Denmark
Junkers were:
German nobles from Prussia
How did Otto von Bismark say the great world issues of his day would be settled?
Blood and iron
In December of 1852 Louis Napoleon was elected by the French people to the position of?
The Emperor
18th and 19th century Liberalism was the political and economic philosophy of what social class?
Middle Class- bourgeosie
The industrial Revolution first began in which nation?
Britain
What was the crowd protesting against at Peterloo Massacre?
Corn Laws
By the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, Austria was given the right to administer (but not to annex) the area of?
Bosnia
What policy did the British Whigs NOT advocate?
Anti-mercantilism, anti-slavery, free trade, end to Corn Laws, laws on child labor
The "most famous artist of the Realist school" was?
Courbet
Who abolished the Holy Roman Empire?
Napoleon Boniparte
Who wrote his Ninth Symphony while he was totally deaf?
Beethoven
Who took the title of "First Consul" during the French Revolution?
Napolean Bonaparte
At the end of the seven Year's war in 1763 what nation was the "world's greatest colonial power"?
Britain
Which was not included by French Revolutionaries in The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Rights for women
The man most responsible for making India a part of British Empire was?
Robert Clive
Empress Maria Theresa Of Austria was the mother of?
Marie- Antoinette
Who placed the crown on Napoleon's head at his coronation as Emperor?
He did it himself (Napoleon)
Which of the following is non characteristic of romanticism?
emotiomal restraint
James Hargrave's "jenny" and Samuel Crompton's "mule" were used?
For spinning and weaving cloth
In the industrial revolution began first in what industry?
Textiles
Because of Karl Marx, propertyless industrial laborers in the 19th century came to be called the?
Proletariat
Brandenburg-prussia eventually evolved into the modern nation of?
Germany
The first shots in American Revolutionary war were fired in what state?
Massachusetts
In the estates general in France, what social class did the second estate represent?
the nobles
Bastille
a grim medieval fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners
What was Thermadore?
month of the July
Napoleon's "Continental System" tried to defeat the British by?
closing all European on ports
Which statement best describes the Luddites?
Workers who destroyed machines, hated technology
Which was the major demand of the Chartists?
Universal sufferage
Which man dominated the Congress of vienna?
Metternich
Which countries fought in the Crimean War?
England, France, Turkey vs. Russia
What were the Corn Laws?
Tariffs on imported grain
Which 19th century war was the precursor for the "total war" of the 20th century?
American Civil War
The germ theory of disease was first postulated by?
Joseph Lister
What nation did prussia defeat in the seven weeks war?
Austria
The Jacobins were?
Radicals during the French Revolution
What war did the peace of Utrecht end?
The war of Spanish Succession
The american colonists' claim that they could not be taxed without representation was based primarily upon?
The magna carta
The idea of the "noble savage" is best associated with?
Romanticism
About this deck
By: Jessica Jacobs
Created: 2012-04-19
Size: 43 flashcards
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Created: 2012-04-19
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