Western Civilization Unit IV Vocabulary

Material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth

• materialism

• property

• investment

• capital

Local assemblies established in 1864 by Tsar Alexander II

• communes

• directories

• mir

• zemstvos

What is a sense of national consciousness based on awareness of being part of a community?

• materialism

• nationalism

• conservatism

• socialism

What is politics based on practical concerns rather than theory or ethics?

• Romanticism

• Realpolitik

• Realism

• Principle of legitimacy

What is the ideology based on the belief that people should be as free from restraint as possible?

• liberalism

• conservatism

• Marxism

• socialism

identify the tenet of nineteenth-century liberalism that held that counsellors of the monarch should be accountable to the legislative assembly rather than to the monarch:

• principle of intervention

• balance of power

• principle of legitimacy

• ministerial responsibility

Name Napoleon's effort to bar British goods from Europe in the hope of weakening Britain's economy and destroying its capacity to wage war:

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• Continental System

• principle of intervention

What is the middle, or merchant/ business class?

• proletariat

• bourgeoisie

• trade unions

• zemstvos

Identify Darwin's idea that organisms that are most adaptable to their environment survive and pass on those variations that enable them to survive:

• natural selection

• survival of the fittest

• materialism

• naturalism

What form of writing was used by Romantics to emphasize the bizarre and unusual, especially evident in horror stories?

• Realism

• The Vampire series

• Romantic literature

• Gothic literature