Chapter 14
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Comfort | the act of consoling |
| Baedeker Guides | A tourist guide published by Karl Baedeker. Publishedguides to the Rhine River, Paris, several German States, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. |
| Thomas Arnold | more powerful fortifications could help small powers against bigger ones |
| Sunday Schools | 1786 -started as non-religious, offered schooling to students who worked at a job other days of the week, focused on reading and writing, idea came from England, turned religious in 1830 |
| Laissez Faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs |
| Utilitarianism | doctrine that the useful is the good |
| Iron Law of Wages | proposed principle of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker. |
| John Stuart Mill | English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873) |
| Romanticism | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization |
| Beethoven | German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music) |
| Raft of the Medusa | gericault |
| Liberty Leading the people | Eugene Delacroix |
| Faust | an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge |
| Zollverein | Prussian economic union, removed tariff barriers between German states, in step toward political unity |
| Cult of Domesticity | the ideal woman was seen as a tender, self-sacrificing caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband, social customs that restricted women to caring for the house |
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