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Unit 5 Revolutions
Unit 5 World History Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Habeus Corpus | The 1679 English Law that gave every prison the right to obtain a writ, or document, ordering the prisoner to be brought before a judge |
| James II | The monarch who offended his subjects by displaying his Catholicism and appointing several Catholics to high office |
| Glorious Revolution | The bloodless English revolution in which 7 members of Parliament invited William and Mary to overthrow the Englsih monarch for the sake of Protestantism |
| Enlightenment | An intellectual movement in Europe that stressed reason and thought |
| Constitutional Monarchy | The new governmetn of William and Mary that established limits to the monarch's power, created a cabinet, and established a new government |
| Cabinet | A group of ministers in the Parliament that acted in the ruler's name but in reality represented the major party of Parliament and became the center of power and policy making |
| Thomas Jefferson | The political leader who wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Declaration of Independence | A long list of King George III’s abuses on the colonies |
| Salon | The meeting place of the philisophes during the Enlighternment, held by Parisan women to discuss the ideas of the day |
| Life, Liberty, and Property | the natural rights which were outlined during the Enlightenment |
| John Locke | The Philosphe who believed in natural rights. His ideas were included in the U.S. Constitution and provided for a system of checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful |
| Paris | The Enlightenment movement began in this ciy |
| American Colonists | The eventual winners of the American Revolution |
| checks and balances | the system of government established so that the three branches of government had the ability to check the actions of the other branches |
| federal system | The organization of the Constitution that divided the power between national and state government |
| Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the Constitution that ensure the rights of the American Citizens |
| Estates | the three large social classes in France |
| Old Regime | The system of social classes in France prior to the French Revolution |
| National Assembly | Members of the Third estate, who were mostly members of the bourgeoisie, that passed laws and reforms in the name of the French people, eliminated the absolute monarchy of France, and began representative government |
| Tennis Court Oath | A pledge that became known as this as the third estate delegates found themselves locked out of their meeting room. They broke down a door to an indoor tennis court, pledging to stay until they had drawn up a new constitution |
| Bastille | French people in Paris were in fear of foreign troops to attack French citizens stormed this Paris prison looking for arms and gun powder |
| Great Fear | A reign of fear of the nobles where the peasants were breaking into the nobles’ manor houses and destroyed the old legal papers that bound them to pay feudal dues |
| Maximilien Robespierre | The leader who used fear and a machine called the guillotine to kill French citizens that he thought were threatening the Revolution |
| Directory | A group of middle class men that were placed in power in France after the Revolution |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | An individual born off the Italian coast of Corsica that rose through the rankings of the French Revolution to become a powerful French ruler |
| Coup d'etat | a sudden seizure or "blow to the state"; Napoleon's rise to power is often described as this |
| Napoleonic Code | A comprehensive systenm of laws that gave France a uniform set of rules that eliminated many injustices |
| Waterloo | The final battle that resulted in the defeat of Napoleon and his final exile to the island of Ebla |
| The Congress of Vienna | A series of meetings that were designed to establish a balance of power in Europe and prevent France from gaining full control |
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