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Civ Test 2

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Movement that began in Western Europe bringing a series of innovations in farm production   Agricultural Revolution  
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Championed the use of iron plows to turn the earth more deeply and of planing wheat by a drill rather than just by casting seeds   Tull  
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instituted crop rotation   Townsend  
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pioneered new methods of animal breeding that produced more and better animals and meat   Blakewell  
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process of land privation and rationalism intended to produce greater commercial profits   Emclosures (emclosure movement)  
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the changes that the spreading use of powered machinery made in society and economics   Industrial Revolution  
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means by which urban merchants obtained their wages (bought raw materials-> gave to peasants who finished product-> distributed to merchants-> bought by consumer)   domestic system of textile production  
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flying shuttle   Kay  
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spinning jetty: spun 16 spindles of thread simultaneously   Hargreaves  
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water frame: water powered device produced a cotton fabric and was suitable for use in factories   Arkwright  
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invented the 1st engine using steam power   Newcomen  
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Scottish engineer experimented with the Newcomen machine and achieved much greater efficiency by separating the condenser from the piston and the cylinder   Watt  
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introduced a new pudding process (a new method for melting and stirring molten ore)   Cort  
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appointed Rene Maupeou died unexpectedly from small pox   Louis XV  
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attempted to regain what he conceived to be popular support restored all the parlements and confirmed their old powers   Louis XVI  
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Swiss banker financial minister   Necker  
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financial minister new tax on land onwers   Calonne  
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Financial minister saught to reform land tax   Brienne  
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allowed nobility to have a direct role in governing the country alongside the monarchy   Estates General  
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members of the commercial and professional middle class (or everyone except the nobility and clergy)   Third Estate  
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list of grievances   cahiers  
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Estates General and the Third Estate joined together to give France a constitution   National Assembly  
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National Assmebly took an oath to sit until they gave France a constitution After this, the monarchy could govern only in cooperation with Assembly   Tennis Court Oath  
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government bonds   Assignats  
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French aristocrats and enemies of teh revolution who fled to countries on France's borders and set up bases for counter-revolutionary activities   Emigres  
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Frederick William I and Leopald I promised to intervene in France to protect the royal family and to preserve the monarchy if the other major European powers agreed   Declaration of Pillnitz  
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the best organized of the political clibs, they embraced the most radical of the Enlightenment's political theories, and they wanted a republic, not a constitutional monarchy   Jacobins  
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believed the war owould preserve the revolution from domestic enemies and bring the most advanced revolutionaties to power   Girondists  
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the execution ordered ny the Paris COmmune of appox. 1200 aristocrats, priests, and common criminals who, because they were being held in city jails, were assumed to be counter-revolutionaries   September Massacres  
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the newlty elected French body 1st act: to declare France a republic-a nation governed by an elected assembly without a king   Convention  
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Parisians and radical Jacobins began the second revolution in France   Sans-culotttes  
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Irish-born writer and British statesman   Burke  
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working class people marched on the Bastille to demand weapons for city's militia   Bastille  
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Bastille (date)   July 14, 1789  
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September Massacres (date)   1972  
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rumors in French countryside that troops would be sent into the rural districts intensified the peasant disturbances that had begun   Great Fear  
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proclaimed that all men were "born and remained free and equal on rights"   Declaration of teh Right of Man and the Citizen  
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the National Constituent Assembly est a Constitutional monarchy   Constitution of 1791  
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est a basic unit of measurement   metric system  
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transformed the RCC in France into a branch of the secular state   Civil Constitution of the Clergy  
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extreme measures employed by the French government in an effort to protect the revolution   Reign of Terror  
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est to carry out the executive duties of the government   Committee of Public Safety  
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order for total military mobilization of both men and property   levee en masse  
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embodied "republic of virtue" defended by terrot emerged as the dominant figure on the Committee of Publc Safety   Robespierre  
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a recently invernted instrument of efficient and supposedly humane execution   Guillotine  
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tempering of revolutionary terror that led to the est of a new constitutional regime   Thermidor/the Thermidorian Reaction  
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5 person executive body, chosen from a list supplied by the legislature   Directory  
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French Republic   September 1792  
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