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1850s, war between Russia and the allied French, British and Russian (and Sardinia- which joined to aid Italian Unification: granted Austrian land in Italy at the end for helping), first of the modern wars, using railroads and telegraphs, as well as modern weapons and…yeah. Russia was defeated.
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first nurse, established practice during the Crimean war and wrote books about it and began a nursing hospital and all that jazz.
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| Lord Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade |
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| A poem by Laureate that made the Crimean war sound like it was basically the worst thing ever. "Cannons to the left of them, Cannons to the right of them". |
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| issues Europe faced with the fall of the Ottoman Empire. |
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| Percussion cap rifle vs. breech loading |
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| The weapons in Russia were much more outdated than those of western Europe. Breech Loading was slow and cumbersome and the dominate method of reloading rifles used by the Russian Army. Percussion cap rifles were better and stronger. |
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| started in England, rise in factories and mass produced goods, created a huge gap between rich and poor, rise of machines, brought the world into the modern age |
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| system of goods made in the home, prior to the industrial revolution. |
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inefficient and time consuming method of passing a good from house to house, having each specialist contribute their bit to create a finished product.
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| Society primarily dominated by agriculture |
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a spike in agricultural production in England that allowed the industrial revolution to be possible. New tools and a more efficient crop rotationy thing combined with planting crops that revitalized the soil led to a spike in food production and an increase in population.
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| Spinning Jenny / Water Frame / Flying Shuttle |
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different early inventions for the Loom with greatly helped the industrialization of the textile industry
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| Where industrial rev. started |
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| heightened (and sometimes total) government control of major industries and activities aimed at establishing fiscal equality |
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| an idealist philosophy wherin socialism comes first and then the government steps down, allowing all people to live equally. Idea came from Karl Marx and Fredrick Engles. |
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| book of Marxist/Communist ideas written by Marx and Engles |
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| founders of the philosophy of communism. |
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the working class who, under the rules of communism, are so suppressed that they will rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie.
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| Workers of the World Unite |
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political slogan of communism
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proletariat v. bourgeoisie, proletariat must overthrow the bourgeoisie in order to begin communism. They must instate themselves as the rulers, ending the suppression of the working class.
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1st Communist Revolution… why unexpected? Because it was expected that this revolution would come from the industrial workers, but Russia didn’t have many industrial workers. They had poor farmers instead.
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under communism, everyone is equal. No one is politically or financially above anyone else.
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| defined in Europe at this time as anyone who had at least one domestic servant. |
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process of voluntary negotiation between employers and trade unions aimed at reaching agreements, which regulate working conditions.
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| groups of workers with common goals who ban together to get their demands met. Afterall, there is strength in numbers. |
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| when laborers refuse to attend work as a form of protest. |
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a list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment because of untrustworthiness or for holding opinions considered undesirable.
Suffrage (women’s and men’s universal)- fighting for the right to vote.
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| the woman must stay home and run the affairs, everyone must have servants, private life should be kept private, men are the workers in the family, women are supposed to keep the house clean and the people fed- and as technology increased, the work a woman was expected to do increased- women are not to entrust the care of their children to anyone past a certain point, men should be members of gentlemen’s clubs and the like to be removed from the family. |
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period in the United Kingdom is the period covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910. Encouraged an increase in participation in politics and social life among the lower and working classes
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slums, apartment buildings often near factories that were overcrowded with impoverished workers.
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