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541 matches to India Act
Hume, David. 1711-76. Scottish empiricist philosopher and historian: On Human Nature 1739. Free-will. Behaviour results from innate character. God cannot be proved by reason, but we must believe in Him.
Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.
Idealism, Philosophical. Reality is a consciousness of abstract laws vs sensory-based Materialism.
Immigration Acts. 1962. Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth.
Inductive Reasoning. Baconian. Truth is induced from a mass of observed facts.
Industrial Revolution. 1730-. Transformation from agricultural to urbanized manufacturing economy as a result of steam power. 1830 England, France. 1850 Germany. 1860 USA. Blanqui. Toynbee.
Interactionism. Descartes. False idea that the mind affects body through pineal gland.
Intolerable Acts. 1774. British response to Boston Tea Party, Gaspee burning. Closed Boston Harbor. Established military government. Midwest under Quebec rule...Continental Congress.
Ireland Act. 1920. Separate government for north and south. Union Act.
Irish Land Acts. 1870-1903. British legislation for tenant farmers vs landlords.
Irish Rebellion. 1649. Crushed by Cromwell. 1798. Resulted in Union Act.
Japan. 660BC Empire founded by legendary Jimmu. 5C AD First unified state. c552 Buddhism. 1192 First Shogun ruler. 1543 European contact (Portugal). 1639 Isolation. 1868 Meiji restoration. 1945-52 Allies occupy. 1947 Constitutional monarchy.
Jesuit Estates Act. 1888. Quebec awards restitution to Jesuits for British land appropriation 1773.
Johnson, Andrew. 1808-75. US President 1865-9. Reconstruction. Civil Rights Act 1866. Barely acquitted in impeachment trial.
Johnson, Lyndon. 1908-73. US president 1963-9. Great Society program. Education Act. Medicare. Vietnam War.
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric. 1900-58, and Irène.
1897-1956. Discovered Uranium fission 1934. Artificial radioactive substances.
Judicial. Branch of US government. Supreme and lower courts can invalidate Acts of Congress.
Kandinsky, Wassily. 1866-1944. Russian/French. First pure nonfigurative abstract painter. Influenced by Anthroposophy. Blaue Reiter 1903.
Kant, Immanuel. 1724-1804. German Romantic philosopher. Free-will. Inherent moral nature implies “Transcendental” world of freedom. Although the mind builds internal maps of sensory perceptions, we do not know what the world is really like. -“moral imperative = human diginity”. On Heaven 1755. Critique of Pure Reason 1781. Critique of Practical Reason 1788. Critique of Judgement.
Kean, Edmund. 1789-1833. English Shakespearean actor.
Kellogg, Frank. 1856-1937. US Secretary of State 1925-9. Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Kellogg-Briand Pact. 1928. Outlawed war as an instrument of national policy. Signed by 62 countries. Kellogg. Briand.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-68. US non-violent black Civil Rights activist. Assassinated.
Kingsley, Charles. 1819-75. English didactic social novelist/clergyman. Alton Locke 1850. Water Babies 1863. Founded Christian Socialism.
Klee, Paul. 1879-1940. Swiss abstract artist of original delicate small-scale fantasy. Mocker Mocked 1930.