Unit 5: Vocab List - Group 2: 26-50

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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One of the fundamental documents of the French Revolution, defining a set of individual rights and collective rights of all of the estates as one.

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Deism

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The belief that divinity simply set natural laws in motion.

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Division of Labor

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Production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.

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Dreyfus Affair

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A divisive case in which Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was falsely accused and convicted of treason; he was later found innocent and the French government severed all ties between the state and church.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement whose Declaration of Sentiments is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States.

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Emperor Guangxu

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Was inspired by the proposals of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, embarked on the Hundred Days reforms of 1898.

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Empress Dowager Cixi

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Imprisoned Emperor Guangxu and reversed his reform edicts; wanted to protect traditional social and government systems in China.

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Empiricism

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The belief that knowledge comes from sensed experience, from what you observe through your experience, including experiments.

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Enlightenment

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Post-Renaissance period in European history devoted to the study and exploration of new ideas in science, politics, the arts, and philosophy.

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Fabian Society

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A group of English socialists who advocated electoral victories rather than violent revolution to bring about social change.