AP World History Unit 5 - Lesson 5.1

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Seneca Falls Convention

________ was the first womens right convention in America.

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The Age of Isms

Schools of ideologies rose as they taught socialism and liberalism to society

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Nationalism

Idea that emphasizes the unification or pride for a group with social, ethnic, historical, or lingual ties

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Empiricism

Belief that true knowledge comes from experiences and observations rather than established principles

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Social Contract

idea started by John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, people give their natural rights to governments in exchange for protection, law, and order

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Tabula Rasa

Influential idea from John Locke, proposed that people were born as a clean slate and ready to absorb knowledge

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Philosophes

18th century group of writers and thinkers new ways to look at political, social, and economic theories

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Laissez Faire system

Proposed that governments should leave economic activities alone and allow a free market where businesses and consumers could thrive with free choice

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Capitalism

Economic system where industries and factories are owned by private owners for profit

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Deism

Belief that a divinity simply set natural laws in motion and does not intervene

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Conservatism

Belief in traditional institutions, favoring reliance on practical experience over ideological thinking

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Socialism

A system of public or direct worker ownership over production of goods/needs (community ownership

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Classical Liberalism

Belief in natural rights constitutional government, laissez faire economy, and reducing money spent on churches and armies

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Abolitionism

Movement to end the Atlantic slave trade and free enslaved people

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Zionism

The belief of Jews that wanted to reestablish an independent homeland where their ancestors had lived in the middle east

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Anti-Semitism

Hatred towards the Jewish people

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Dreyfus Affair

Political and criminal scandal that illustrated the spread of antisemitism in France.

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Utopian Socialism

Socialism that is achieved through moral persuasion of capitalists to surrender production means to the public.

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Volitare beliefs

Freedom of speech and religion, and separation of church and state.

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Fabian Society

British socialist organization that tried to advance democracy through diplomacy rather than violent revolutions.

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