HY 106 Midterm: Honors Western Civ Exam 2 Notes
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Key terms: code napoleon (code civil): put out by napoleon that granted equality of all male citizens before the law and granted absolute security of wealth and private property. He also secured this by creating the bank of france which loyally served the interests of both state and the financial oligarchy: continental system: created by napoleon in (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:882)(cid:888) sought to choke britain"s trade and force its surrender. It failed and britain retained control of the seas: waterloo: battle where napoleon was stopped by britain and prussia and was defeated. James watt: inventor of the steam engine: george stephenson: in 1915 he invented a locomotive engine, which revolutionized rail transport, david ricardo: (cid:498)iron law of wages(cid:499). Reveals the middle class concerns of the time, including female labor: luddites: in 19th century britain, some workers, accurately predicting that the factory system would replace the, joined forces and attacked factories and destroyed machines.
