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World civ test 3
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Undergraduate 2
04/06/2011

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Louis XVI
Definition
-French king during French Revolution
-Called meeting of Estates General (began rev)
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Marie Antoinette
Definition
-Austrian wife of Louis XVI
-lavish spending habits
-executed 9 months after her husband
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Robespierre
Definition
-radical of French Revolution
-leader of "mountain"
-led Reign of Terror
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Reign of Terror
Definition
-"enemies of the state" were tried and executed by guillotine
-40,000 died
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Napoleon I
Definition
-born in Corsica, which was later sold to France
-rose to power during the wars of the French Revolution
-proclaimed himself emperor at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
-downfall: failed invasion of Russia
-sent to Elba and escaped
-final defeat- waterloo
-sent to St. Helena (off coast of Africa) and died
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Klemens von Metternich
Definition
-rep of Austria at Congress of Vienna
-symbol of the conservative and reactionary spirit
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Bastille
Definition
-old fortress in paris that was converted to a prison
-Paris mobs attacked, killing 100 guards and stole weapons and gunpowder
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National Assembly
Definition
-former 3rd estate
-real voice of france
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Constitutional Monarch
Definition
-king but powers are limited and defined by a constitution
-usually shares power with legislative body
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mountain men/jacobins
Definition
-"left"
-wanted to make France a republic with every trace of the old system uprooted
-in favor of change
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men of the plain/girondistes
Definition
-"right"
-more conservative and interested in preserving traditional ideas
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committee of public safety
Definition
-"mountain men" formed this committee to steer France through chaos
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guillotine
Definition
-a way to execute everyone in the same fashion and as painlessly and swiftly as possible
-named after Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotine
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the directory
Definition
-form of French government which Napoleon overthrew when he staged his coup d etat
-after reign of terror
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French Revolutionary Wars/Napoleonic Wars
Definition
-France was almost continuously at war with the major powers of Europe
-Napoleon rose to fame in this first group of wars (drove out British at Toulon)
-Battle of Austerlitz- defeated Russians and Austrians and at the battle of Jena the Prussians
-declaration of war and the invasion of Russia ended Napoleon
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industrialist
Definition
-new class of factory workers
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combination acts of 1799
Definition
-British acts that made trade unions illegal
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Casper David Freidrich
Definition
-German Romantic painter
-human helplessness against the forces of nature
-often, figure in painting's back is turned
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Ludwig von Beethoven
Definition
-Romantic composer from Germany
-completely deaf last 10 years of life, wrote masterpieces
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Charles Fourier
Definition
-early French socialist
-sought greater social and economic unity by abolition of private property
-favored total emancipation of women, abolition of marriage, and complete sexual freedom
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industrial revolution
Definition
-shift from hand tools to power machinery
-began in Great Britain (peace, good central bank and credit institutions, rivers and canals)
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open field system
Definition
-small farmers cultivated large fields in common
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Enclosure Acts
Definition
-private ownership and management
-richer farmers evicted smaller ones
-small farmers migrated to cities to do factory work
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Charles Townshend
Definition
-one crop used to feed livestock
-fatter cattle
-Turnip Townshend
-Netherlands
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Karl Marx
Definition
-German thinker
-named bourgeoisie and proletariat
-wanted no social classes
-all citizens should share profits
-communist
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bourgeiouse
Definition
-small percentage of factory owners
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proletariat
Definition
-large percentage of factory workers
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Napoleon II
Definition
-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
-proclaimed himself emperor
-failed invasion of Mexico
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Otto von Bismarck
Definition
-architect of German unification
-Prime minister of Prussia
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Zollverein
Definition
-free trade within the Confederation
-Bizmark wanted to unite all German peoples (except Austria) under Prussia
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Definition
-architect of Italian unification
-professional rebel that led revolutions around the world
-army= red shirts
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Spain and Russia
Definition
-2 big problemts for Napoleon
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Rome
Definition
-not a part of Italy during unification
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Sturm and Drang
Definition
-"storm and stress"
-romantic movement among German artists
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Romanticism
Definition
-response to the rationality of the Enlightenment
-feeling, emotion, interest
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Fredrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Definition
-early Romantic poet
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das Volk
Definition
-common people
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Brothers Grimm
Definition
-collected 200 fairy tales in Germany
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Gothic novels
Definition
-type of horror story filled with violence and supernatural effects
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harpsichord
Definition
-keyboard instrument
-vibrates metal strings
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pianoforte
Definition
-diverse gradations of sound
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liberalism
Definition
-importance of individual rights of liberty
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utopianism
Definition
-perfect world
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congress of Vienna
Definition
-peace conference at the end of the Napoleonic Wars
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German Confederation
Definition
-coalition of German states with Austria as senior partner and Prussia as junior partner
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Corn laws
Definition
-grain
-in Great Britain to protect British farmers by prohibiting citizens of foreign grain
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Vatican City
Definition
-pope was granted this his country within Rome
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Red cross
Definition
-founded by a swiss business man during the wars of Piedmont with Austria in the north
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Franco-Prussian war
Definition
-last war of the German Unification process
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earliest factories?
Definition
cotton mills
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earliest factories?
Definition
cotton mills
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James Hargreaves
Definition
invented the hand operated spinning jenny for cotton
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Thomas Newcomen
Definition
-1702 built first economically significant steam engine
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James Watt
Definition
made improvements on Newcomen's steam engine
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Golden Age for Europe
Definition
1800s
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factory act 1833
Definition
-limited factory workday for chidren 9-13 to eight hours and 14-18 twelve hours
-prohibited factory work for children under 9
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mines act 1842
Definition
prohibited underground work for all women and boys under 10
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