AP European History Flashcards: Ideologies Of Change And Reform Movements

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Flashcard 1: What is the "separate spheres" ideology in 19th-century bourgeois society?

Answer: Men in public work/politics; women in domestic and moral roles. Justified gender inequality as natural division suited to each sex's abilities.

Flashcard 2: What is Chartism in Britain primarily demanding?

Answer: Expanded male suffrage and political reform via the People's Charter. Working-class movement for democratic rights in 1830s-40s.

Flashcard 3: What is the bourgeoisie in Marxist theory?

Answer: The capitalist class that owns the means of production. Marx identified them as exploiters of worker labor value.

Flashcard 4: What is socialism in 19th-century Europe primarily concerned with changing?

Answer: Reducing inequality by reshaping property and industrial capitalism. Response to industrial capitalism's harsh conditions and wealth disparities.

Flashcard 5: Identify the ideology most associated with the 1815 Concert of Europe and Metternich's system.

Answer: Conservatism. System aimed to suppress liberal and nationalist movements.

Flashcard 6: What is the key difference between "civic" nationalism and "ethnic" nationalism?

Answer: Civic: shared laws/values; ethnic: shared ancestry, language, and culture. Civic unites through political participation; ethnic through blood and tradition.

Flashcard 7: What is Marxism's central claim about how major historical change occurs?

Answer: Class struggle drives history toward revolution and a classless society. Marx argued economic systems create opposing classes that inevitably clash.

Flashcard 8: What is the main aim of the temperance movement in 19th-century Europe?

Answer: Reducing or banning alcohol to address social and family problems. Linked alcohol to poverty, domestic violence, and industrial accidents.

Flashcard 9: What is the basic purpose of labor unions in industrializing Europe?

Answer: Collective bargaining to improve wages, hours, and working conditions. Workers organized to counter employers' power in industrial capitalism.

Flashcard 10: Identify the ideology that most strongly supports laissez-faire and limited government.

Answer: Classical liberalism. Adam Smith's ideas shaped liberal opposition to government economic intervention.

Flashcard 11: What is romanticism primarily a reaction against in late 18th- and 19th-century culture?

Answer: Enlightenment rationalism and industrial-era materialism. Emphasized emotion, nature, and imagination over reason and science.

Flashcard 12: What is "laissez-faire" in $19^{\text{th}}$-century economic liberalism?

Answer: Minimal state interference in the economy and markets. French phrase meaning "let do" - markets self-regulate best.

Flashcard 13: Identify the ideology that most directly supports protective tariffs to build national industry.

Answer: Economic nationalism. Protected domestic industries to strengthen national power.

Flashcard 14: What is the primary goal of the abolitionist movement in the Atlantic world and Europe?

Answer: Ending slavery and the slave trade through law and moral reform. Combined religious conviction with economic arguments against human bondage.

Flashcard 15: What is the key distinction between utopian socialism and Marxist socialism?

Answer: Utopian: ideal communities; Marxist: class struggle and revolution. Utopians sought peaceful reform; Marx advocated violent overthrow.

Flashcard 16: What is nationalism as a 19th-century ideology, in its core political claim?

Answer: A people sharing identity should form a sovereign nation-state. Challenged multi-ethnic empires by linking cultural identity to political sovereignty.

Flashcard 17: What is conservatism (as defined after 1815) primarily aimed at preserving?

Answer: Traditional institutions, monarchy, established social order. Reaction against revolutionary change, favoring stability and tradition.

Flashcard 18: What is "class struggle" in Marxist theory?

Answer: Conflict between social classes over economic power and resources. Marx saw history as driven by this economic competition.

Flashcard 19: What is anarchism as a political ideology in 19th-century Europe?

Answer: Rejection of the state; society organized through voluntary cooperation. Views all government as oppressive; advocates self-governing communities.

Flashcard 20: What is Christian socialism in $19^{\text{th}}$-century Europe attempting to combine?

Answer: Christian ethics with social reform and aid to workers. Sought to apply Gospel values to industrial social problems.

Flashcard 21: What is abolitionism in the context of European reform movements?

Answer: Movement to end slavery and the slave trade. Moral and economic arguments against human bondage.

Flashcard 22: Identify the ideology most associated with a constitutional monarchy and a limited franchise.

Answer: Liberalism. Balanced monarchy with parliament and property-based voting.

Flashcard 23: What is the core principle of utilitarianism associated with Bentham and Mill?

Answer: Policies should maximize the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Judges actions by outcomes, not intentions or moral rules.

Flashcard 24: What is the principal objective of the Chartist movement in Britain (1830s–1840s)?

Answer: Expanding political democracy, especially working-class male suffrage. Six-point charter demanded universal male suffrage and parliamentary reforms.

Flashcard 25: What is feminism in 19th-century Europe primarily demanding in legal-political terms?

Answer: Expanded women's rights, especially education, property rights, and suffrage. Challenged legal restrictions that denied women full citizenship and autonomy.

Flashcard 26: What is feminism in the context of $19^{\text{th}}$-century European reform movements?

Answer: Advocacy for women's legal, political, and educational equality. Challenged legal restrictions and social norms limiting women.

Flashcard 27: What is nationalism as a political ideology in $19^{\text{th}}$-century Europe?

Answer: Loyalty to a nation defined by shared culture, language, or history. Emerged from Romantic emphasis on folk culture and self-determination.

Flashcard 28: What is the meaning of "means of production" in socialist and Marxist thought?

Answer: Productive property: factories, land, tools, and capital. Control of these determines economic and political power.

Flashcard 29: Identify the ideology most associated with labor unions and collective bargaining for wages.

Answer: Socialism. Workers organized to counter capitalist exploitation.

Flashcard 30: What is classical liberalism in $19^{\text{th}}$-century Europe primarily associated with?

Answer: Individual rights, constitutional government, free markets. Emphasized personal freedom over state control and economic regulation.

Flashcard 31: What is realism in mid-19th-century European art and literature primarily focused on depicting?

Answer: Everyday life and social conditions, especially of ordinary people. Rejected romantic idealization to show society's actual problems and conditions.

Flashcard 32: What is liberalism in 19th-century Europe primarily associated with in politics and economics?

Answer: Individual rights, constitutional government, and free-market capitalism. Emerged from Enlightenment ideals opposing absolutism and mercantilism.

Flashcard 33: Identify the ideology that argues the state should be abolished entirely.

Answer: Anarchism. Sees all forms of government as inherently coercive and unnecessary.

Flashcard 34: What is conservatism (post-1815) primarily designed to preserve in European society?

Answer: Traditional institutions: monarchy, church authority, and social hierarchy. Reaction to French Revolution's radical changes and Napoleon's disruptions.

Flashcard 35: What is the proletariat in Marxist theory?

Answer: The wage-earning working class that sells labor for wages. Marx saw them as the revolutionary force to overthrow capitalism.

Flashcard 36: What is communism as articulated by Marx and Engels in 1848?

Answer: Abolition of private property via proletarian revolution. Predicted inevitable overthrow of capitalism by workers.

Flashcard 37: Identify the ideology most associated with restoring pre-revolutionary order after 1815.

Answer: Conservatism. Metternich system exemplified conservative restoration of monarchical authority.

Flashcard 38: What is socialism in early $19^{\text{th}}$-century Europe primarily a critique of?

Answer: Industrial capitalism and unequal distribution of wealth. Responded to worker exploitation and poverty from industrialization.

Flashcard 39: What is "separate spheres" ideology in $19^{\text{th}}$-century Europe?

Answer: Men in public work/politics; women in domestic family roles. Justified excluding women from voting and professional careers.

Flashcard 40: What is the key distinction between Marxism and utopian socialism?

Answer: Marxism stresses class conflict; utopians stress planned ideal communities. Marx emphasized inevitable revolution; utopians believed in peaceful reform.