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| Term | Answer |
|---|---|
| Estates | Groups French society was divided into during the Old Regime |
| Fundamental | Type of cause that has deep roots in the past |
| Immediate | Type of cause that leads directly to some kind of action |
| Cahiers | Notebooks of criticisms of the French monarchy |
| Tennis court oath | The Third Estates's action to withhold money from Louis XVI until France had a constitution |
| Bastille | Paris prison attacked on July 14, 1789, marking the beginning of the French Revolution |
| Bourgeiosie | The middle class |
| Marie-Antoinette | French queen during the Revolution |
| Robespierre | Leader during the Reign of Terror |
| Napoleon | Army general who rose to become emperor of France |
| Waterloo | Place of Napoloen's last defeat, in Belgium |
| Estates General | French law-making body during the Old Regime |
| Duke Of Welsh | British Duke who finally defeated Napoleon(also present at the Congress of Vienna) |
| Hundred Days | Napoleon's drive to regain control after his escape from Elba |
| Materials-oriented Production(where it is located) | -near the source of raw material |
| Materials-oriented Production(why it is located there) | either the raw material may be fragile or perishable or the raw material may lose bulk or weight during production |
| Market-oriented Production(where it is located) | -located where a market exists for the product |
| Market-oriented Production(why it is located there) | -either the raw material may gain weight or bulk during production or the end product may be fragile or perisable or some industries need to be in consant touch with their markets |
| Transport-oriented Production(where it is located) | -not at the resource point nor at the market, but at some intermediate location |
| Corvee | The requirement of the peasants of an area to do serveral day's work each year without pay |
| Taille | A tax on land and its produce levied by the nobility |
| Capitaineries | Reserves/Districts granted by the king to princes of royal blood. The princes owned all the game in these reserves, even on lands not belonging to them. |
| Tithe | Church tax, usually one-tenth of one's income |
| Estates(CNR) | Clergy, Nobility, Rest of the population |
| First estate | Clergy:collected tithe, controlled 1/5 of the land |
| Second estate | Nobility:owned the rest of the land, didn't pay taxes |
| Third estate | Rest of the population:96% of the population, not privledged |
| Fundamental cause of the French Revolution | Futile laws and taxes |
| Immediate cause of the French Revolution | France became bankrupt |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | Death certificate of the Old Regime |
| Slogan of the French Revolution | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity |
| Why was LouisXVI executed | Charged with treason, found guilty by one vote |
| When did the Congress of Vienna meet | After the Battle of Nations at Leizig |
| Quadruple Allience | Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, Austria |
| Liberty | Reform, Constitution |
| Fraternity | Working together as a nation |
| Equality | No special privliges |
| Nationalist | Felt people with common language, history, and culture should unite |
| Socialists | Worked for the betterment of the proletariat(workers) |
| Conservatives | Believed society would change gradually for the better as long as power remained in their hands(nobility) |
| Liberals | Believed in constitutional government rather than divine rights of kings |
| Absolutism | The complete rule of a monarch against their subjects |
| Divine Rights of Kings | A claim that the monarch was selected by God |
| LouisXIV | "I am the state", cared more about wars then peace, left a heavy financial debt to his successor |
| Voltaire | Freedom of thought and religon, wrote "Letters on English" about the French Government |
| Adam Smith | Laissa-Faire Economics |
| Allies(WWI) | France, Great Britain, Russia, United States |
| Central Powers(WWI) | Italy, Germany, Austria, Turkey |
| Militarism | Preparing for war, preparing people to fight |
| Alliances | Aggrements with nations of common goals |
| Triple Alliance | Italy, Germany, Austria(central powers) |
| Triple Entente | France, Great Britain, Russia(Allies) |
| Imperialism | Process of building imperial power(race for colonies) |
| International Lawlessness | Absence of machinery for peaceful aggrement |
| order of battles(WWI) | First battle of Marne, Battle of Ypres, Battle of Tannenburg, Battle of Gallipoli, Battle of Verdun, Battle of Jutland |
| Why the United States joined WWI | Sinking of the ship Lusitania that had a 100 Americans on it, The Zimmerman telegram |
| Armistice | A temporary agreement to stop hostilites |
| Treaty | Agreement made by negotiation or diplomacy |
| November 11, 1918 | Allies and Germany signed a Armistice |
| John Kay | Flying shuttle:increased speed of weaving |
| James Hargreaves | Spinning jenny:increased speed of spinning yarn |
| Richard Arkwright | Water frame:used water to spin yarn faster, resulted in the factory system |
| Samuel Crompton | Spinning mule:combined the spinning jenny and the water frame |
| Edmund Cartwright | Power loom:weaved thead into cloth faster than before |
| Eli Whitney | Cotton gin:separated raw cotton from its pods |
| James Watt | Steam engine:improved the steam engine |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | Saftey lamp:enclosed a open-flame into a container |
| Henry Bessemer | Bessemer Converter: process that changed iron to steel |
| George Stephenson | Steam locomotive:improved transportation |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | Telegraph:improved communications |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone:improved communications further than the telegraph |
| Jethro Tull | Seeding drill:planted seeds in straight rows |
| Viscount Townshend | Crop rotation:helped soil retain valuable minerals and stay fertile longer |
| Robert Bakewell | Animal husbandry:breeding improvements |
| Cyrus McCormick | Reaper:cut grain more rapidly |
| John McAdam | Ashpalt:improved travel during rainy weather |
| Adam Smith | Wrote The Wealth Of Nations(laissa-faire(hands off) economics) |
| Primary industry | Direct use of natural products ex.Forestry, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Mining |
| Secondary industry | All types of manufacturing industry ex.Construction, Manufacturing |
| Tertiary industry | Performance of services ex.Transportation, Utilities, Trade, Finance |
| Quaternary industry | Research and development of technology |
| Capitalism | Economic system based on private ownership, profit, competition |
| Enclosure movement | Consolidation of fields into one large ownership |
| Corporation | Business organization in which shares are sold |
| Robert Fulton | Steamboat |
| Dividend | Shares in the profit of a corporation |
| Stocks | Certificates of ownership in a corporation |
| Order of napoleons titles | General, First Consul, Emperor |
| Birth Rate | Total live births/Total population x 1000 |
| Death Rate | Total deaths/Total population x 1000 |
| Net migration | Immigrants-Emigrants |
| Natural Increase | Total live births-Total deaths |
| Rate of natural increase | Birth rate-Death rate |
| Popuplation Doubled | 70/(move rate of natural increases number 1 decimal place to the left) |
| Total population change | natural increase+net migration |
| Developing nations have had many troubles in their attempt to become industrialized, Why? | Type of spending, Mulitinationals(corporations), Lack of finances, Lack of resources, Lack of skilled workers, Lack of Infrastructure |
| Defeats of Napoleon | Waterloo, Leipzig, Trafalgar |
| Why Napoleon's rapid rise to power? | Military leader, Popularity, Advantage of Opportunities, Josephine'sconnections to royalties |
| Order of French Revolution groups | Old Regime, National Assembly, Legislative Assembly, National Convention, Directory |
| White man's burden | Belived it was their duty to bring knowledge of medicine, science, technology, and sanitation to those they believed to be uncivilized. |
| Kowtowing | Bowing low to the Chinese Emperor to show respect |
| Why has the hunger cycle been also described as "The vicious cycle of poverty" | Poor and malnourished people may have neither the energy nor the education to improve their own circomstances |
| Four main factors involved in the problem of world food supply | Population numbers, Population growth rate, The amount and quality of arable land, Yields of food per hectre |
| Arable land | Ploughed to grow crops |
| Grazing land | Used to feed animals |
| Brunswick Manifesto | Issued by Austria and Prussia, threated Paris with total destruction if harm befell the royal family |
| Push factors which resulted in migration to cities | Poverty level, Natural disasters, Land is scarce |
| Pull factors which cause migration | Employment, Medical facilities, Education facilities, Government assistance |
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