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10th Grade
01/18/2009

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Causes of french revolution (F.R.E.A.K.)
Definition
F- financial difficulties: population growth; third estate cant afford taxes; banks have no money king/queen spent A LOT of money; took out many loans.
R-revolution: revolution in america incourage the french people to fight for what they want.
E-estates: 1st esate (clergy, R-C church paid no taxes, 2nd estate (nobility) no taxes, 3rd estate paid taxes very poor (bourgeaisie)
A-age of enlightment: want equality and a change in gov. want power to the people
K-king louis XVI: no kids and spent alot of money, lacks leadership
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old regime
Definition
time before the revolution (1789)
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three estates
Definition
1st esate (clergy, R-C church paid no taxes, 2nd estate (nobility) no taxes, 3rd estate paid taxes very poor (bourgeaisie)
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jacobins
Definition
republics; favored power by paris
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girodins
Definition
few participants; supported the king
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napolean
Definition
took over france after Louis XVI
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plebiscite
Definition
people could vote yes or no but could not give an opinion
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Battle of waterloo
Definition
between France(napolean) and the united kindow and prussia.battle that defeated napolean
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congress of vienna
Definition
reactionaries who tried to fix europe
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the storming of the bastille
Definition
national assembly captured the Basille prision and lotted it for weapons and then destroyed it
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coup e'tat
Definition
sudden unconstitutional overthrow of the government
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Charles I
Definition
king of England; married a french women. very into himself
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the age of enlightement
Definition
people began to think and question concrete ideas
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john locke
Definition
believed in "some life, liberty and property"
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Thomas Hobbes
Definition
wanted a strong and controlling leader
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english civil war
Definition
supporters of Charles I vs. supporters of the parliment. parliment won and Charles I was exiled
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Oliver Cromwell
Definition
Puritan leader; rump parliment chose him to take control of England
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Roundhead
Definition
supported the parliment
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cavalier
Definition
supported the king (england)
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William III and Mary of England
Definition
cousins; became leaders of England
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Glorious Revolution
Definition
A bloodless transfer of power to william and mary
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Tory
Definition
dont like that Charles I is catholic but they still support him
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Whig
Definition
dont want charles I in power because he is catholic
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constitutional monarchy
Definition
limited the power of the monarchy
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constitutional monarchy
Definition
limited the power of the monarchy
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agricultural revolution
Definition
enclosure movement (1500-1600) common lands and open fields were fenced off into individual plots. led to new inventions and techniques.
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industrial revolution
where did it begin?
Definition
started in England; began to make interchangable parts in factories. began using rich resources, waterways and harbors were being used for trade; large labor force
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Textile industry
-what it led to
Definition
first industry to be replaced by machienes. led to innovations and the factory system
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james watt
Definition
patened the modern steam engine
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adam smith
Definition
wrote "wealth of nation" supported the hands of policy and free enterprise
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socialism
Definition
gov. owns and runs the means of production
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marxism
Definition
marx + engels type of socialism:
2 social groups- capitilists who own the productions and proliteriet (workers) who own nothing. revolution needed to take power. evenutally power to the people
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karl marx
Definition
wrote the "communist manifesto". didnt agree with capitalism
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capitalism
Definition
people own the means of production
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proletariat
socialism or capitalism?
Definition
working class, own nothing\
socalism
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commmunism
Definition
type of socialism. takes power and keeps power
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democratic socialist
Definition
government has means of production but people can vote
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Charles Darwin
Definition
theory of evolutionary selection
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Marconi
Definition
transmitting the first wireless signals
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renaissance
where did it begin?
Definition
movement following the middle agesthat centered on revival of interest in the classical learning of greece and rome
began in italy
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Machiavelli
Definition
a floretine diplomat and historian; wrote "the prince"
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Printing Press
Definition
used to print the copies of the bible.
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reformation
Definition
a religous revolution; argued that the roman catholic church has lost sight of its spirual mission
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Martin Luther
Definition
a monk but didnt agree with some of the roman catholic church practices
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John Calvin
Definition
French protestant believed in predestination
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conter reformation
Definition
a reformation of the catholic church
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Giotto
Definition
realistic painter
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Johannes Guttenberg
Definition
scholar; first european to use movable type to print books.
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Castiglione
Definition
an italian diplmatic published "the book of coutier. how women and men should interact
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michaelangelo
Definition
known for the 16th chaple. master or renaissance art
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rafael
Definition
painter; painted frescoes in the papal chambers
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mercantilism
Definition
the policy which states one should do anything it can do to make its country as wealthy as possible.
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scientific revolution
Definition
era where people began using experiments and mathmatics to understand and solve mysteries
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free trade
Definition
argued that government should not get involved in international trade
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triangular trade
Definition
trade with the old world,the new world and africa; traded slaves
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middle passage
Definition
within the triangular trade. route from aftica to new world.
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columbian trade
Definition
trade between new and old world
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Ferdinand Magellen
Definition
"gelled around the world"
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cause of opium war
Definition
british refused to stop trading opium to china
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treaty of nanking
Definition
ended opiunm war
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matthew perry
Definition
representative from USA opened japans docks
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treaty of kanagawa
Definition
treaty between japan and matthew perry(america)
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present day ottomans, safavids, mughals
Definition
hungary
Term
suleyman
Definition
supreme ruler
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divine rights of kings
Definition
stated that you were born into a royal family and could not more up in social classes
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Louis XVI
Definition
married to marie antonionette or austria- absolute monarch of France. eventually executed.
Term
Phillip II
Definition
king of England during spanish armada
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irish question
Definition
weather or not ireland should have home rule
Term
latin american social classes
(penninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattoes)
Definition
penninsulares- eurpeans born on iberian penninsula.

Creoles- white people
mestizos-americans of indian background
mulattoes-european and african
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monroe doctrine
Definition
stated that the US would not interfere with eurpoean conflicts
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simon bolivar
Definition
lead several revolutions in latin america
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