Flashcards: The 1800s
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HistoryofCrawford on January 22, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 industrialization | When a country begins manufacturing materials using factories. |
| Luddites | A group of British workers who attempted to sabotage machines to save their jobs. |
| consumption | Any lung disease, especially from mining or textile manufacture. |
| urbanization | Moving into and expanding cities. |
| Irish potato famine | Millions of Irish people died or emigrated when a blight on potatoes caused their crops to fail. |
| Congress of Vienna | A group of nations who met in an attempt to prevent another Napoleon-like takeover of Europe. |
| Metternich | Conservative leader of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe. |
| Concert of Europe | Follow-up to the Congress of Vienna. This group of nations attempted to keep the legitimate monarch ruling each nation. |
| Romanticism | A period when people valued emotion over reason. |
| nationalism | When loyalty to one's nation outweighs every other loyalty. |
| conservatism | Belief in preserving the status quo (meaning leave things the way they are). |
| liberalism | The belief that people should be as free from restraint as possible. |
| Karl Marx | Inventor of Communism. |
| Communism | Belief that the government should control the economy. Anti-religious. |
| Napoleon | French Emperor who conquered most of Europe before his exile in 1815. |
| Napoleonic Civil Code | Granted most Europeans basic Enlightenment rights for the first time. |
| coup d'etat | A military takeover of the government. |