Terms – AP Exam

19th century social and cultural terms with which you should have some familiarity:

  • Nationalism
  • Bourgeoise Respectability
  • Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859)
  • Orientalism
  • Brothers Grimm
  • Romanticism
  • George Gordon Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
  • Realism
  • Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838), Hard Times (1854)
  • Honoré Balzac, The Human Comedy (1830s-40s)
  • The Oxford Movement
  • Luddites
  • New Lanark Mills 1786 (UK)
  • Mancester (UK)
  • Peterloo Massacre 1819 (UK)
  • The Sadler Report / The Factory Commission (1833)
  • The Factory Acts
  • Crystal Palace, 1851
  • China Clipper
  • The Great Hunger 1844-52 (Ireland)
  • Emile Zola, Germinal

Chapter 18:

  • Louis Blanc / ‘Organization of Labor’ / National Workshops
  • Lamartine, the “arsonist turned fireman”  / Second French Republic 1848-52 / Universal Manhood Suffrage / Louis Napoleon
  • June Days (civil war in France, 1848)
  • Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine
  • Kossuth (Hungary): “The magic of liberty is stronger than nationality.”
  • the ‘robot’
  • The April Laws
  • The Congress of Slavs
  • Count Cavour / Piedmont / Victor Emanuel II
  • Guiseppe Mazzini / Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • The Frankfurt Assembly, 1848 / Frankfurt constitution
  • Schleswig-Holstein
  • Agreement at Olmütz (1850)
  • The Crimean War (1853-56) / International Straits Agreement 1841

Chapter 20:

  • Kulturkampf
  • Center Party / Social Democratic Part (SPD) / Fatherland Party
  • Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative Party)/ William Gladstone (Liberal Party)
  • Suez Canal
  • Treaty of Berlin 1878
  • Tsar Alexander II
  • Michael Bakunin, ‘Revolutionary Catechism’ / The People’s Will
  • Tsar Alexander III
  • Odessa / Zionism / Theodor Herzl / First Zionist Congress (1897)
  • Ausgleich 1867 / Dual-Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
  • ‘The Sick Man of Europe’
  • Third French Republic
  • Dreyfus Affair / Emile Zola / J’accuse
  • Jean Jaures
  • George Clenenceau
  • Joseph Chamberlain

Chapter 21:

  • New Imperialism / Berlin Conference 1885
  • Cecil Rhodes / Cairo to Capetown Railroad
  • Boer War 1899-1902
  • Gen. Gordon at Khartoum
  • Fabian Society / State Socialism / Sidney and Beatrice Webb
  • Labour Party (UK)
  • Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin) / ‘What is to be Done?’ (1902)
  • Bolsheviks / Mensheviks
  • SPD (Social Democrats)