Topic 5, Part 3 Questions

Provide four types of people that are a part of the new Middle Class during the 18^th and 19^th centuries (yes, we know they’re the gentry and that they’re rich regular people).

Bankers,factory owners,merchants, land owners

Besides the few remaining peasants, who made up the working class?

Unspecialized laborers in the cities

What type of groups or entities did the working class see as enemies? 

middle class,nobles

Who felt that the best thing for society was the thing that made the greatest amount of people happy?

John stuart mill

What was this philosophy called?

Utilitarianism

What is the term used to describe people having the right to vote?

suffrage

What was the term used to describe an era of political change in the 1800s that argued working class men should be able to vote and participate in government.

Classical liberalism

rovide two socialist policies (laws) these workers won in the 1830s and 1840s in Great Britain.  

Mines act, factory act

What were the two socialist policies put in place in Germany during the 1880s to avoid unrest and possible working-class revolution?

old age pensions, accident insurance, workers compenstation

What was the name of the German chancellor that pushed for these changes?

Oto Von Bismarck

What is the French word for the middle class?

Bourgeoisie

What is the French word for the working class?

Proletariat

Which two men came up with the idea for communism?

Karl Max and Fredrich Engeles

What was the book they wrote? 

The communist Manifesto

What did they believe needed to be eliminated in order to end class struggles and bring peace?

Private property

What were the four class struggles of the past (upper class vs. lower class) in the Neolithic, Classical, Post-Classical, and EME/Modern eras?

Master vs slave

middle class vs working class

nobility vs peasants

patrician vs plebeian

What are the three steps to achieving communism and ending the class struggle? 

Proletarian revolution

communism

socialism

This is the belief that all governments are oppressive and corrupt, and that humans should overthrow and rid themselves of such oppression.

anarchism

Provide a figure who helped shape this belief.

mikhail bakunin and karl marx

Provide a group of these people who routinely attempted to assassinate the gov. leaders in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

Black Hand of serbia

This was the 19^th century financial instrument that required countries to only print the money they had in gold.

gold standard

This was the 19^th century financial instrument that protected businesses from being sued.  

limited liability companies

This was the 19^th century financial instrument that allowed people to buy shares of businesses and sell them.

stock market

Provide two examples of economic imperialism.

united fruit HSBC/The hongkong

shanghai banking corporation limited

What types of economics tend to depend on one good that was sold to Western buyers/businesses? 

single-export

 Provide five example countries that adopted this type of economy.  

Peru,Mexico

USA, Brazil, Argentina

Provide two examples of governments attempting to stop workers from negotiating for better conditions. 

Pullman strike

homestead strike

This was the name of the movement in which women attempted to win the right to vote. 

First wave feminism or suffrage

This is the name of the woman who believed women should work together for the collective much like workers did in unions. 

lora tristan

This was the English female writer who wrote about the hypocrisy of Enlightenment ideals not been granted women.

Mary wollstonecraft

This was the French female writer who also wrote about the hypocrisy of Enlightenment ideals being granted to men and not women.

Olympes de  Gouge

This was the location of the first women’s suffrage meeting in 1848.

Seneca Falls

This is the document in which they laid out their foundational views at the meeting described above.

Declaration ofSentiments

Provide two examples of transcontinental businesses either in Africa or Asia.  

Unilever HSBC/The Hongkong

Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited