BJU World Studies Chapter 14

socialism

a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production

Karl Marx

developed Marxism

proletariat

laborerd

bourgeoisie

capitalist

communism

common ownership of property

sufferage

the right to vote

temperance

drinking in moderation

abstience

no drinking of alcohol

Corn Laws

1815 tariff on imported grain to protect domestic producers

Reform Bill of 1832

entitled the Middle Class to vote

Chartism

universal man sufferage and secret ballots

Benjamin Deiraeli

Prime minister of 1867 doubling the number of men who could vote

Reform Act of 1867

granted voting privilages to all male homeowners

William Gladstone

stressed domestic reform during his term as Prime Minister

Parliament Bill of 1911

reduced the House of Lords from its status as equal partner w/ House of Commons; took away the power of veto from the House of Lords

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

elected President of France, declared himself President for life, and later made himself emperor of France and made his name Napoleon III

Second Empire

the empire Napoleon III establish

Third Republic

the forces that captured and deposed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

anti-Semitism

hosility toward Jews

Dreyfus Affair

1894 falsely charged for supplying French secrets to the Germans

pogrom

massacre of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe

romanticism

desired to imitate mideival times

realism

replaced romanticism as a new art form

Charles Dickens

wrote about the negitive aspects of the Industrial Revolution

Leo Tolstoy

described the difficulties of the life in Russia

James Maxwell

Scottish scientist; predicted the existence of radio waves before their discovery; combined the sciences of electricity, magnetism, and optics into one model

Louis Pasteur

a French chemist, developed a method of heating milk and other liquids in order to slow the development of disease-causing microbes, pasteurization, proved that spontaneous generation is a myth

pasteurization

a method of heating milk and other liquids in order to slow the development of disease-causing microbes

Charles Darwin

wrote "Origin of Species" which described his ideas on evolution and natural selection

internal combustion engine

produces power inside the engine

Wright brothers

made the first successful airplane flight on 12/17/1903

telegraph

enables people to write messages to others who live far away

Samuel Morse

invented Morse code

telephone

a device used to send and recieve sounds and speech over any distance

Alexander Graham Bell

invented the telephone

Porfirio Diaz

develop a constitutional democracy and prosperity

British North America Act

created the dominion in Canada with Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as the four provinces