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Final Study Cards- Mulligan
Chapters 12 through 20
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History
10th Grade
05/28/2009

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Francis Joseph
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Emperor of Austria-Hungary who generally ignored the constitution set up at the joining of the countries
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Nicolas II
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Russian czar who believed in the absolute power of the monarchy; resisted reform
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Duma
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Russian legislative assembly formed after 1905
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Bismark
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prime minister who worked to keep democracy from taking hold in Germany; fired by the emperor in 1890
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William II
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Germany's emperor at the turn of the century who embarked on an activist policy whose purpose was to increase German power
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revisionists
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Marxists who argued that workers must work within the system to gain reform, rather than wait for a revolution
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Marconi
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was respondsible for sending the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901
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Proletariat
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oppressed victims of the Industrial Revolution
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Ptolemaic
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Earth at the center of a series of geometric shapes
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Galelleio
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first european to study stars with a telescope
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Philosophes
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Intellectuals of the enlightenment
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Descartes
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Based philosophy on the idea "I think therefore I am."
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Laissez-faire
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idea that the state shouldn't interfere with the economy
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St. Helena
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Island to which Napolean was exiled
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Capernicus
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Believed the universe was Heliocentric
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Newton
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Long has been considered the greatest genius of the Scientific revcolution
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Francis Bacon
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Created scientific method
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John Locke
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Argued that every person was born with a tabula rasa, or a blank mind
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tabula rasa
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;atin for 'blank mind'
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Voltaire
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Well known for his criticism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious toleration
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John Jaques Rausseau
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Believed members of a society should be forced to follow a social contract
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Social Contract
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agreement of a way of life between a group of peoples
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Hondel
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Composer of the 'Messiah'
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Treaty of Paris 1763
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Made great brittain the world's greates colonial power
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France
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First country to grant diplomatic power to the new American state
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Constitution of the United States
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created a federal system in which power would be shared between the national government an the state governments
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Taille
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France's cheif tax
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Legislative Assembly
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Lawmaking body of the Constitution of 1791
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Paris Commune
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Radical political group made up of the sans-culottes
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Jacobin Club
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Large network of political groups found in france
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Robespierre
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Head of comittee for Public Safety
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coup de'etat
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sudden overthrow of a government
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Napoleanic Code
Definition
preserved most of the rights of the people gained in the revolution
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Elba
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sight off Tuscany where Napolean was first exiled
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Waterloo
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site of Napolean's defeat
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Bastille
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storming began the French Revolution
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Marie Antoinette
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wife of King Louis XVI
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Civil Constitutio of the Clery
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mandated that clergy were to be elected by the people
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Sans Culottes
Definition
members of the Paris Commune
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Guillotine
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method of execution used by revolutionists
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Republic of Virtue
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Democratic nation compsed of good citizens that the Comittee of Public Safety tries to establish
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Directory
Definition
Part of government overthrown by Napoleon's coup de'etat
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Germaine De Stael
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prominent critic of Napoleon's rule
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Continental System
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Napolean's plan to waeken the British economy
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