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| What political structures resulted from the 1789 revolution? |
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• A constitutional monarchy
• National assembly: Just represents third estate and creates laws for the third estate
• Legislative Assembly |
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| What conflicts existed within France? |
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• Food shortages
• Government Debt
• Leaders Louie the 16 and Marie Antoinette
• Unequal representation
• Third estate paid 50% tax |
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| What were the concerns of neighboring countries? |
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| • They were afraid that the ideas from France might cause revolts in their own countries {Britain, Holland, Spain, Prussia, Austria} |
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| “liberty, equality, fraternity” |
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| Slogan of the Revolutionary leaders |
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| had the power to create laws and to declare of war |
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| Higher ranking officials who fled France in fear of revolution and wanted it to go back to the old days |
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| Lower class who wanted even more change |
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| radicals who wanted sweeping change |
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| want few to no change at all |
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| was a woman who wanted women’s rights and was executed |
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| became leader of the Committee of Public Safety. For the next year, Robespierre governed France virtually as a dictator |
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| Creating the goverment by wiping out every trace of France's past |
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| A machine used to behead people used in the French revolution |
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| a lawyer, was among the club's most talented and passionate speakers he also was known for his devotion to the rights of Paris's poor people |
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| Britain, Holland, Spain, Prussia, Austria |
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| radical political organization |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| chief task was to protect the Revolution from its enemies |
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| When Robespierre executed random political figure and regular citizens |
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| How did Napoleon gain power? |
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| He staged coup d’état were he forced the government to make him absolute ruler |
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| How did Napoleon bring order to France? |
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• Set up effective tax collection to establish good economy
• Ensured steady supply of tax money
• He banished corrupt officials
• Started lycees or government run schools
• Napoleonic Code |
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| How did Napoleon expand his empire? |
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• Wanted to control Europe
• Napoleon losses his Dominica island and all control of the new world was sold in the Louisiana Purchase for 15 million dollars
• Conquered parts of Europe
• But other countries feared that he might try to invade theirs |
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| was the dictator of France for a brief period in time |
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| “blow of state” when Napoleon took power |
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| agreement (used to sign new meaning with church and Napoleon used it to his advantage) |
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| set of laws that eliminated many injustices but restricted freedom |
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| Battle took place 1805 off the coast of Spain and destroyed most of the French fleet |
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| a forcible closing of ports—to prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations |
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| they worked in small groups that ambushed French troops and then fled into hiding |
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| the brief period in time during 1815 when Napoleon was brought back for 100 days to rule and was defeated |
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| In an effort to get Portugal to accept the Continental System, he sent an invasion force through Spain, Napoleon removed the Spanish king and put his own brother, Joseph, on the throne, outraged the Spanish people For six years, bands of Spanish peasant fighters, known as guerillas, struck at French armies in Spain |
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| involved burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock so as to leave nothing for the enemy to eat or survive |
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| was the replacement to Napoleon was the Louis the 16 brother was not very popular with the people |
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| On June 18, 1815, together, the British and the Prussian forces attacked the French, two days later, Napoleon's troops gave way and the British and Prussian forces chased them from the field |
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| it was supposed to make continental Europe more self-sufficient |
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| the island that Napoleon was shipped of to when he was captured |
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| the second island he was shipped off to and were he eventually died of a stomach problem |
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| What traits might be used to describe Napoleon? |
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• Brave
• Courageous
• Intelligent
• Inspirational
• Over confident
• Power hunger |
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| How was colonial society divided? |
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Into classes:
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• Creoles
• Mestizos
• Mulattos
• Native Americans |
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| people who had been born in Spain (top) |
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| Spaniards born in Latin America (2nd) |
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| persons of mixed European and Indian ancestry (3rd) |
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| persons of mixed European and African ancestry, and enslaved Africans (4th) |
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| was enslaved and was a leader in the Haiti revolution and set free the island, eventually captured and shipped of to prison and died there |
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| Simon Bolivar (the Libertador) |
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| was one of the leaders of the revolution and won a key victory, and won Venezuela's independence |
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| was another general in the revolution worked with Bolivar and won major battles together |
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| a priest in the small village of Dolores, On September 16, 1810, he rang the bells of his village church, when the peasants gathered in the church, he issued a call for rebellion against the Spanish, today, that call is known as the grito de Dolores (the cry of Dolores). |
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| led the revolution for four years, however, in 1815, a creole officer, Agustín de Iturbide defeated him |
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