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EHAP Ch. 18 Terms
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History
12th Grade
11/20/2009

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John Law
Definition

-A scottish economist

 

- attempted to create a national bank and paper currency for France 

 

- Money was credit and credit was determined by the "needs of trade"

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The Grand Tour
Definition

- The term Grand Tour was introduced by Richard Lassels

- Young English elites of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often spent two to four years traveling around Europe in an effort to broaden their horizons and learn about language, architecture, geography, and culture in an experience known as the Grand Tour.

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Cottage industry

Definition

- family enterprise

1)   Sell finished product

2)   Make profit

3)   then manufacture more!!!

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infanticide
Definition

-Intionally killing an infant

-Abandonment of children

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Louis XV of France (1715-1774)
Definition

-   Chose to rule alone in 1743 , when advisor cardinal fluery died

-Mistress : Madame de Pompadour

-Lazy, easily influenced

-Came to rule at age 5

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Natural Rights
Definition

- Inalterable privileges that should not be witheld from any person

 

-Equality before the law

-freedom of religious worship

-freedom of speech and press

-the right to assemble.

-hold property

-seek happiness

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"Balance of Power"

Definition

- The counterbalance of pwer of one state by another to prevent any one state from dominating the others.

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Robert Walpole
Definition

- Prime minister or chief to George I and George II

-Duke of Newcastle as their main dispenser of patronage, putting the latter at the center of British politics

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Hanoverians
Definition

- New dynasty that was established when the last Stuart ruler (QUEEN ANNE) died without an heir.

 

-crown was offered to pretestant rulers of the German state of Hanover

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