Revolutions Test: Enlightenment, American, French, and Industrial

Question 1

study of the natural world began by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs

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Scientific Revolution

Question 2

a conflict in whichSpanish rebels fought to drive Napoleon’s French troops out of Spain

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Peninsular War

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Louis XVI wife from Austria. She loved to spend government money on personal items

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Marie Antoinette

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his law of gravity explained how the same physical laws governed motion on earth and in space

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Isaac Newton

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the radical political organization who took power during the French Revolution

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Jacobins

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he believed that people could learn from experience and criticized absolute monarchies

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John Locke

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an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon’s forceswere defeated by a British fleet

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Battle of Trafalgar

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African-Haitian leader who fought off Napoleon to remain free in Saint Domingue (Haiti)

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

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pledge made by the National Assembly which they vowed to stay until they created a constitution

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Tennis Court Oath

Question 10

a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789

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National Assembly

Question 11

a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

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Balance of Power

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the growth of cities and the migration of people into them

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Urbanization

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the earth-centered view of the universe, the earth was at the center of the universe

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Geocentric Theory

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Napoleon set up this puppet election to gain dictatorship of France

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Plebiscite

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European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace & security after the defeat of Napoleon

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Congress of Vienna

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a formal agreement – between thepope and a government, dealing w/ the control of Church affairs

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Concordat

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a social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers

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Middle Class

Question 18

policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe

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Continental System

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a statement of the reasons for the American colonies’ break with Britain, approved in1776

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Declaration of Independence

Question 20

a wave of senseless panic that spread through France after the storming of the Bastille

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Great Fear

Question 21

the idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and businesses

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Laissez Faire

Question 22

a business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but not solely responsible for debts

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Corporation

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a Jacobin ruler who became a dictator during the French Revolution He used the guillotine alot

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Maximillien Robespierre

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an association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages

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Unions

Question 25

the 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution, which protect citizens’ basic rights and freedoms

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Bill of Rights

Question 26

measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others

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Checks and Balances

Question 27

the absolute monarch of France before the French Revolution

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Louis XVI

Question 28

an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment in order to make a profit

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Capitalism

Question 29

the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution

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Old Regime

Question 30

a sudden seizure of political power in a nation. Napoleon’s military takeover

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Coup d'etat

Question 31

an economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public

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Socialism

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author of the Wealth of Nations, he believed the gov't should not interfere with the economy

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Adam Smith

Question 33

the militia fighting force in Spain against Napoleon’s forces in the Peninsular War

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Guerrillas

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great military genius he took control over France and made a European Empire through many wars

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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an economic systems production is owned by the people and all goods/services are sharedequally

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Communism

Question 36

the period when Robespierre ruled France as a dictator and thousands of citizens were executed

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Reign of Terror

Question 37

in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian small shopkeepers

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Sans-Culottes

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author of the Communist Manifesto, he introduced a radical type of socialism, Communism

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Karl Marx

Question 39

a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution

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Guillotines

Question 40

a person who leaves the country for political reasons like the nobles during the French Rev

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Emigres

Question 41

the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering/leaving a city or region

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Blockade

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gov't in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states

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Federal System

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the social classes in France the 1st is clergy the 2nd is nobles & the 3rd is everyone else

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Estates

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the shift from making goods by hand to making them by machine

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Industrial Revolution

Question 45

to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands

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Strikes

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European movement that attempted to apply principles of reason/the scientific method to society

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Enlightenment

Question 47

the agreement by which people limit their rights so that society can be governed better

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Social Contract

Question 48

the burning crops & killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land

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Scorched-Earth Policy

Question 49

a share of ownership in a corporation

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Stock

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Italian scientist famous for his discoveries in astronomy. Developed the telescope

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Galileo

Revolutions Test: Enlightenment, American, French, and Industrial

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