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HIST 1118
Term | Definition |
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Ruler of Thumb | You can not beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb |
Fleet Street Marriage | Cheaper way to get marry than the traditional method |
Hardwick Act | To stop fleet street, Because government was losing money |
BANNS | public announcement made on 3 weeks advanced to see if there is any objections |
Debtor's prison | Throw in People who owe debts |
Robert Malthus | Essay on Population |
ALBION | Old Name for British Island |
Victoria | Albert |
WALTS | Brought back by the soilders, Devil's tool |
Corsets | Whale bones, keep women in shape |
Communist Manifesto | Socialist Utopia, Communist ideaology, Karl Marx |
King Leopold of Belgium | Congo in Africa |
Franz Ferdinand | Cousin of Franz Joseph, Assassinated in Sarajevo |
War Bride | Women who lost husband or lovers in the war against nepolean |
Freud | Father of Psychoanalysis, Austrian |
Jung | Father of Subconsciousness, Swiss |
Phrenology | Study of the skull to determine one's charatcterlistics |
Roaring Twenties | Jazz Age |
Flappers | Ladies in boyish cloth |
Alcapone | Profited from demand of liquor |
Rosie the Riveter | women work in factories |
The Cold War | Roosevelt and Stalin parted ways |
Propaganda | turning people against communism |