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Unit 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was a continuity in France? | Absolutism |
| What did the "Revolutionary" change not do? | Supplant everything |
| What two things did people learn to be? | Both scientist and Christian |
| What was outlawed? | Slavery |
| What did not happen to former slaves? | They weren't embraced in society |
| What happened to Japanese isolation? | It ended |
| What is 1750-1914 called? | The modern age |
| In politics, we trended away from monarchy towards what? | Greater political representation |
| Economically, the world shifted from mercantilism/feudalism to what? | Capitalism |
| In society, what power gradually faded away? | Deriving power from noble birth |
| Where did status now come from? | Wealth |
| What two classes expanded? | The middle and industrial working classes |
| What did modern societies become? | Urbanized |
| What happened to the population between 1750 and 1914? | It grew |
| What view became dominant between 1750 and 1914? | A secular world |
| The end of this era is 1914. What happened in 1914? | World War I |
| What was Europe like in the 19th century? | At the peak of its power |
| Who replaced Europe in power in the 20th century? | The U.S. |
| What did World War I speed up? | The process of European decline |
| What is absolutism? | When a monarch has total power |
| Who was the major casual agent of change? | The West |
| What two processes began in the 1400s? | Exploration and colonization |
| What did Western Europe consolidate a hold on? | Foreign colonies |
| What was unprecedented about Western Europe? | It was the first civilization to truly dominate the world |
| What is imperialism? | Making empires |
| What was imperialism linked to? | Warfare, racial prejudice, economic exploitation, and slavery |
| Where are the harmful effects of imperialism still felt today? | In Africa, Latin America, and Asia |
| Industrialization was a move towards what? | Factories and commercial culture |
| In industrialization, we don't make what we need, we ...? | Buy it |
| What led to the first world war? | Political changes in Europe |
| What two countries unified in this unit? | Germany and Italy |
| What happened to absolute monarchies in Europe? | They ended |
| What did revolutions in Europe establish? | A set of ideals that could be pushed for in the future |
| What two things or ideas interconnected? | Industrialization and imperialism |
| What did the Western Hemisphere do by the early 19th century? | Freed itself from European control |
| Where did imperialists turn eyes to? | Africa and Asia |
| What is nationalism? | Having a love for your country, but not a specific leader |
| What did nationalism spark? | Rebellions, independeace movements, and unification movements |
| What is Eugenics/Ethnocentrism? | Human breeding, or an ideological explanation for racial superiority |
| What did social Darwinists apply the theory of natural selection to? | Sociology |
| How did Social Darwinists apply the theory of natural selection to sociology? | They believed that dominant races rose to the top through survival of the fittest |
| What country did Social Darwinists see as the most fit and the superior race? | Britain |
| What is the White Man's burden? | A poem by Rudyard Kipling about how Europeans have a moral obligation to teach others how to be civilized |
| What did Europeans want to convert others to? | Christianity |
| What were the Chinese? | The Middle Kingdom, or the "center of the world" |
| What did the Japanese believe about themselves? | That they were racially superior |
| What did Europe have to act on their beliefs that were superior? | Military technology |
| Why did changes occur so quickly in this time period? | People could communicate more quickly than before |
| What made communication quicker and easier in this time period? | Trains and ships, telegraph cables, telephones, and planes |
| What replaced small, independent farm plots by natives? | Large plantations |
| Crops for large plantation were chosen based on? | The needs of the industrialized West |
| What area's trade increased significantly? | Latin America |
| What profitable plantations were there in Latin America? | Sugar, cotton, and cacao |
| What did Latin American trade increase the importance of? | Slavery |
| What did the Monroe doctrine do? | Cut on colonization by other European countries, and allowed more mfg goods to go to Latin America for raw materials |
| Where did trade decrease significantly? | The Islamic World |
| What empire in the Islamic World weakened? | The Ottoman |
| Why did the Ottoman Empire weaken? | Because of revolts and a disinterest in industrialization |
| Who carried on trade indpendently in the Ottoman Empire? | Christians/Jews |
| What did the threat of competition in the Islamic world lead to? | Reforms |
| What did the Tanzimet reforms do? | Facilitated trade, but they came it late |
| What did the Islamic world become dependent on? | European imports and influence |
| What did the Suex Canal do for Egypt? | Made it a significant commercial/political power |
| What country was the Opium Trade with? | Qing China |
| Who the Opium trade benefit and why? | China because they started getting more silver and it was extremely profitable for them |
| Who was annoyed with the trade inbalance of the Opium Trade? | Britain |
| Why did Indian Opium switch the balance of trade? | Now, silver was flowing out of China instead of in |
| What are spheres of influence? | Areas where England could trade. |
| How many spheres of influence were there? | Five |
| What happened after the Opium Wars? | China was opened to Europe |
| What is extraterritoriality? | It means foreigners are not subject to local laws |
| What country was in a backward position in trade and technology? | Russia |
| Who was Perry? | A U.S. commander with a letter from president Wilson, who's expedition opened Japanese ports in 1854 |
| What did Japan become? | Industrialized |
| Who did Japan have trade relations with? | The Netherlands, Great Britain, and Russia |
| Why did the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade end? | Because of enlightenment thought, religious conviction, and a slave revolt in Haiti |
| Who ended slavery first? | The British |
| In the Industrial Revolution, civilizations were no longer...? | Principally agricultural and rural |
| What three things happened during the Industrial Revolution? | The mass producing of goods, urbanization, and capitalism ruling. |
| How did the Industrial Revolution change life in Europe? | It effected how people worked and where they lived, and it forced the West to spread practices to the colonies |
| When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin? | Great Britain in the mid 1700s |
| Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain? | They had large domestic deposits of coal |
| What happened during the second agricultural revolution in the 18th century? | Farming techniques improved, half the population left farms for cities, and new industrial jobs became available |
| Why did half the population leave farms for cities during the second agricultural revolution? | New industrial jobs became available |
| Why was there so much more crop yield in the second agricultural revolution? | High yield crops came from the New World, and there were new technolgies such as chemical fertilizers |
| Why was there an increase in the population during the Industrial Revolution? | There was more food available |
| What was the population growth from the Industrial Revolution from 1700-1800? | 50% growth to 190 million |
| What improved the death rate during the Industrial Revolution? | Increased medical care |
| What major improvement in technology came about during the Industrial Revolution? | Steam power |
| What kind of impovements did steam power contribute to? | Industrial and transportation improvements |
| Who came up with the assembly line/factory system? | Henry Ford |
| Where were factories put? | Near a water source |
| What was invented for the textile industry, and who invented it? | The cotton gin by Eli Whitney |
| What is the Protestant work ethic? | Earthly success is a sign of personal salvation |
| Why was the domestic system not as effective anymore? | Cotton was woven into cloth at homes, middlemen dropped off wool/cotton at homes, and women would sell the cloth to middlen/buyers |
| Who is Adam Smith? | The Father of Capitalism. He wrote Wealth of Nations |
| What did Adam Smith believe the open market should be allowed to determine? | The demand for goods and services |
| What is laissez faire capitalism? | The government removes themselves from the economy - "Let them do." |
| Where was the steam engine used? | In every economic field |
| How was the steam engine used in transportation and electricity? | In steam ships, railroads, and the telegraph |
| What overtook steam and coal as an energy source? | Electricity |
| What replaced the domestic system? | The factory system |
| What is the domestic system? | You work in your home for your boss |
| What did Eli Whitneyinvent that was beneficial for the factory system? | Interchangeable parts |
| What was used in the factory system? | Assembly line |
| Vast numbers of what two races provided labor for plantations and mines? | Asian and Africans |
| What was invented during the Transportation Revolution? | The locomotive, steamship, internal combustion engine, and the airplane |
| What new class was born? | The working class |
| What was the working class called? Who came up with the name? | Porletariat, Marx |
| Who are bourgeoise? | The rich/elite working class |
| How was the working class treated poorly? | They worked long hours - 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, and the working conditions were crowded and disgusting |
| What kind of labor was common during the industrial revolution, that is frowned upon today? | Child labor |
| What kinds of jobs were in the middle class? | Merchants, bankers, and factory owners |
| What was social status now determined by? | Wealth instead of family position |
| A reform movement said that the government needs to act on behalf of...? | The workers |
| Where was the reform more possible in? | Great Britain and the U.S. |
| Why was reform more possible in Great Britain and the U.S.? | They had democracy, a middle class, and the impact of the Enlightenment |
| Where was a reform not possible and why? | Russia, because they were an autocracy and Marxism was more attractive there |
| What did countries with industrial technology have? | Advanced military weapons |
| What were countries who had advanced military technology able to do? | Conquer people who did not have this technology |
| What did countries need access to and why? | Raw materials to make finished products and markets |
| Where did the Industrial Revolution start and what did this country become because of it? | Britain, they became the dominant global nation of the 19th century |
| How did the role of the individual in work change? | Man is no longer just working with machines, he becomes part of the machine |
| How was there an abuse of labor? | People were working 16 hours days, and children as young as 6 were working in the factories |
| How did living conditions change in the Industrial Revolution? | The air became polluted and the machinery was hazardous, which led to despair and hopelessness |
| What was created to reflect the times? | Literature |
| What did Charles Dickens write of? | Social ills of industrialization |
| What book did Charles Dickens write? | A Tale of Two Cities |
| What book did Karl Marx write? What did it say? | He wrote Communist Manifesto, which said that the working class would eventually revolt and take control of the means of production |
| What did Karl Marx see a flaw in? | The capitalist system |
| What is communism? | The government controls goods and distributes them based on need |
| What is socialism? | The same as communism, except the government distributes based on how hard you work |
| Who are the Luddites? | People who are anti-technology. They destroyed factory equipment and protested working conditions and wages |
| What was the first industrial war? | The United States Civil War |
| What is a monoculture? | A culture that grows only one crop |
| What did monocultures do? | Damage the environment and retarded the economy |
| What was the "Banana Republic"? | A monoculture that was controlled by an aristocrat |
| After 1850, what did societies begin recieving? | Higher wages and shorter working hours |
| What did leisure time lead to? | Populat interest in theater and sports |
| What additional employment opportunities came after 1850? | Secretaries, salespeople, and clerical jobs |
| Who filled many of the job after 1850? | Unmarried women |
| What did popular consupmtion lead to? | Advertising campaigns |
| How was Industrial growth measured? | By iron, coal, steel, and cotton production |
| Who was the first country to industrialize? What four countries came after them? | The U.S. was first, then Western Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Northern Italy |
| Who lagged behind in becoming industrialized and why? | South and East Europe because they were agriculture based |
| Why was Russia totally backwards? | Serfdom |
| What did population growth in Japan lead to? | Increased urbanization |
| What is the Meiji Restoration? | Japan's Industrial Revolution |
| What outside force in Japan forced change? | Commodore Perry |
| What did samurai leaders in southern provinces of Japan push to end? | Foreign influence |
| Who was Japan's first emperor in 1000 years to have power? | Emperor Meiji |
| What was the Sat-Cho Alliance? | It fired on foreign ships, and was fired back on by Europe |
| Europe firing back at Japan was a reason to...? | Overthrow the shogun |
| What were some Latin American countries seen as? | Sources for natural resources and markets |
| What did Latin America lack? | A local capital |
| Who were Latin American countries financed by? | Foreigners |
| What is capital? | Money you can invest |
| Who was the source of capital in Britian? | Private enterpreneurs and capitalists |
| What did Britain limit? | Foreign investment |
| In Japan, government investment was in...? | Initial states |
| What is Zaibatsu? | In Japan, a few wealthy banking, industrial families |
| What did Japan, like Britain, limit? | Foreign investment |
| Where did energy in Britain come from? | Large domestic deposits of coal for steam power and iron to build machines |
| Where did Japan get their energy resources? | They imported them |
| Where was technology originally developed? | Britain |
| How did Japan get their machinery? | They imported it |
| What happened to Britain's population during industrialization? | It doubled in the 1700s from 5 to 9 million |
| What were the Enclosure Acts? | They closed off public lands, which caused people to move to cities and created a pool of laborless workers |
| What happened to Japan's population during industrialization? | It grew rapidly |
| What social changes occured in Britain? | Women's suffrage and universal education |
| What is suffrage? | The right to vote |
| What social continuance occured in Japan? | The subordinate position of women |
| What rose up in both Japan and Britain? | Private corporations |
| Although both Japan and Britain followed similar paths, who was on fast forward? | Japan |
| Industrialists like...were private corporations in Japan? | Mitsubishi family (Ziabatsu) |
| What did inventions push? | Industrialization |
| What did industrialization do for European nations? | Made them richer, which made them more technologically adept, which boosted the meed for scientific knowledge to explore |
| Who was new weaponry in the hands of? | Westerners |
| What did the cotton gin make possible? | The textile revolution |
| What did the cotton gin do that made the textile revolution possible? | Extracted clean cotton thread from raw cotton balls |
| What do all industrial and scientific developments go through? | The same process, whether it's 18th century Britain or 20th century Nigeria |
| Where were factories built? | In areas near towns and cities |
| Where were towns and cities built? | In areas near sources of power, transportation, and a pool of workers |
| Why did people shift from the countryside to the city? | Due to poor harvests, too little land, and too many people to feed |
| What class formed during the industrial revolution? | The Middle Class |
| What lead to reform during the industrial revolution? | Brutal working conditions and unsafe and unhealthy living conditions |
| What are muckrakers? | Propaganda writers who are against government leaders |
| What was the Scientific Evolution? | Discovering, learning, evaluating, and understanding the natural world |
| What was the Industrial Revolution? | Applying the understanding of the natural world ends |
| What did the Industrial Revolution increase the need for? | Resources and markets |
| During the Industrial Revolution, what changes in social thought occured that were from Enlightenment ideals? | Women's Emancipation movement, the end of the slave trade, rise of unions and laws to protect workers, the rise of Marxism, and independence movements and revolutions |
| How did changes in patterns of world trade occur during the Industrial Revolution? | European nations seized trading networks from local and regional conrol, which connected them into a truly global network |
| Between 1800-1920, 50 million Europeans migrated to where? | North and South America |
| What push factors led to Europeans migrating to North and South America? | The famine in Ireland, anti-semitism in Russia, no religious toleration, poverty, and joblessness |
| What is anti-semitism? | Hating Jews |
| What are pogroms, and where were they at? | Pogroms were government sponsered Jew killings in Russia |
| Especially what group of people migrated from the country to the city? | Young adults |
| The middle class moved away from the city to the...? | Suburbs |
| Who did European settler colonies come into conflict with? | Native populations |
| Why was there growing revulsion among Western countries? | For moral, ethical, and religious reasons |
| What was the turning point of the end of the Atlantic Slave Trade? | When Great Britain wanted to make slavery illegal in all parts during the peace settlement following the Napoleonic Wars |
| Who still kept slaves, even after the end of the Atlantic Slave Trade? | West Africa |
| How did Britain attempy to end slavery? | British ships blockaded the West African shoreline, and hunted down slave ships |
| What happened to Africa's population growth because of the slave trade? | Their was a loss of population growth |
| What did Africa rely more on because of the slave trade? | The importation of foreign goods such as guns, textiles, and alcohol |
| What did the introduction of guns in Africa increase? | The likelihood of intertribal war |
| What happened to Africa's economy after the end of the slave trade? What did this cause? | The economy slumped, which left regions open to foreign takeover in the 1800s |
| What happened to the population because life expectancy rose? | It increased |
| Why did the death rate drop? | People practiced more hygienic practices |
| Who is Louis Pasteur? | He came up with the germ theory and pasturized milk, which killed germs and bacteria |
| Why was there a drop in the birth rate? | Families didn't need to produce large families to serves as laborers on their farms anymore |
| Why did countries steal natural resources, instead of trading for them? | Stealing is cheaper than dealing. It was easier to go in and take what was wanted and leave than to barter for something. |
| What happened because countries stole natural resources instead of bartering for them? | They gained incredible wealth by colonizing, draining natural resources, and didn't compensate the natives |
| At the expense of whom did colonial powers become rich? | The colonies |
| What two goods did tropical climates produce? | Rubber and cotton |
| Why was there an increase in pollution? | Water was contaminated with human sewage, and the skies became dark with coal-produced smoke |
| What is Rickets? | A disease of the bones caused by underexposure to sunlight |
| What three cities passed 1 million? | London, Paris, and New York |
| What two diseases spread easily because of overcrowding? | Cholera and tuberculosis |
| What happened to the working class in 1850 when the Industrial Revolution was essentially over? | They started to benefit |
| Where did poor women who had taken care of the home and worked in the fields shift to during the industrial revolution? | Working in factories and sweatshops |
| Who did poor women actually have more opportunity than? | Middle and upper class women |
| Who were women still paid less than? | Men |
| By the end of the century, what were most working women? | Single |
| What did women lost because of the factories? | Their manufactoring jobs of the domestic (putting out) system |
| Upper class women had less...than in previous eras? | Influence/power |
| What was a new social group and what were they like? | Middle class housewives. They had afternoon social calls and drank tea, and were Victorian Age idealized women who had manners and etiquette |
| What happened to middle class housewives as men earned money? | Women returned to traditional roles and their power diminishes |
| What did the middle class housewives start organizing? | Demands for rights and suffrage |
| What is social mobility? | The ability to move from one class to the next |
| What class expanded? | The middle class |
| In the home, what was the husband and what was the wife? | The husband was the wage earner and the wife was a homemaker |
| What were the new aristocrats? | People who became rich based on industrial success |
| What is old money v. new money? | Money from family v. money you earned |
| What was a new twist on the working/lower class in their jobs? | The massive lowr class was working side by side |
| What was the huge class discrepancy the working class was able to see? | The elite were gaining wealth at their expense |
| Where were the two safe havens for former slaves? | Siberia Leone (British colony), and Liberia (for freed U.S. slaves) |
| How long did Russian serfdom last? | Until 1861, or the time of the U.S. civil war |
| What couldn't the people in Russian serfdom leave the land? | Russia didn't have a pool of factory labor, and no one had any money |
| What was the Emancipation of 1861? | In freed serfs in Russia. They were no longer bound to the land. |
| The Emancipation of 1861 made who pay for land? | Former serfs and peasants |
| Indebted freemen in Russia did not improve agricultural output. This was like what in the American South? | Like sharecropping vs. slavery |
| What did Eli Whitney's cooton gin necessitate? | More slaves in the American South |
| If Eli Whitney had not invented the cotton gin, what might had happened? | Slavery might have died out earlier |
| What did the cotton gin require? | A ton of cheap labor to stick cotton in the machine |
| In the West, greater awareness of what began to spread? | Unfair and unequal treatment |
| What stimulated the spread of awareness of unfiar and unequal treatment? | Enlightenment theories and the active role of women in American and French revolutions |
| What did the Industrial Revolution alter? | The conditions under which women worked |
| What were the two spheres that the Industrial Revolution created? | A domestic sphere and a separate working class sphere |
| What is the cult of domesticity? | It stressed the women's place in the home and dominated Western culture |
| What occupations were open to women? | Child care, teaching, domestic household work, and nursing |
| What did stron women's movements demand? | Suffrage, equal opportunity to work, equal pay, and temperance (stop drinking) |
| What did a handful of European nations give women before World War I? | The right to vote |
| Where was movement towards women's equality slower? | In non-Western societies |
| What kind of monarchy was normal? | A centralized monarchy |
| What is an autocracy like? | A dictatorship |
| What country had a total autocracy? | France |
| What country had constitutional limits? | Great Britain |
| What was the total autocracy in France like? | There was a standard method of ruling, with an absolute monarch and aristocrats who controled land, wealth, and political influence |
| What was common in modern revolutions? | The influence of intellectual movements and ideas |
| What did Marxist principles underlie? | Communism |
| Who were important as actors in the revolutions? | Peasants and urban workers |
| What was there a shift in in movements that began as democratic uprisings? | Authoritarian rule |
| What country's indepedence movements flourished in the first part of the 19th century? | Latin America |
| What happened to Chinese dynastic rule in the early 20th century? | It ended |
| What was a common theme in revolutions in the U.S.? | Frustration with economic exploitation |
| What was the dependent status of the U.S. colonies symbolized by? | "No taxation without representation" |
| Who created the social contract? | Rousseau created it, and John Locke presented it |
| What was the social contract? | Rights v. Security. People gave their rights in exchange for the government maintaining order, and they could overthrow the government if they didn't |
| What did Enlightenment ideas inspire? | The type of government that was created after it succeeded. |
| What do Americans call the Seven Years war? | The French and Indian War |
| What do the French call the French and Indian War? | The Seven Years War |
| How did the United States feel they should take care of the debt and costs from the French and Indian War? | Have Americans share in the costs of the war |
| What did Thomas Paine do? | Wrote a famous pamphlet called Common Sense |
| What became a powerful tool in America? | The printing press |
| What happened in America in 1776? | The Declaration of Independence |
| In the United States, there was a conflict at Lexington and...? | Concord |
| With whom did America ally with? | Britain's enemies |
| What did France do in relationship with the U.S.? | They allied with America and committed ships, soldiers, weapons, and money in 1777 |
| Who did America defeat? | The British forces |
| What was established in 1776? | The United States of America |
| Once the U.S. was established, who were we recognized by? | Other nations and finally the British |
| What did the U.S. lose by the British? | Territory and revenues |
| In France, there were long term effects by what? | The rule of an absolute monarch |
| The policies of who led to the French Revolution? | Louis XVI |
| National debt and financial collapses such as what in France led to the French Revolution? | The life of luxury at Versailes, France's war debts, droughts that damaged French harvests, the spending of Marie Antoinette, inflations and unemployment, and the need of Louis XVI to raise taxes |
| Why was the tax system in France unfair? | The First and Second Estates, who were very wealthy, were exempt from it |
| The first and second estate made up how much of the population in France? | First - 1% Second - 2% |
| In France, the abuses of privileges of who/what led to the French Revolution? | The nobility and the Roman Catholic Church |
| What were the effects of the rise of the bourgeoisie in France? | The middle class became frustrated because they only possessed a little bit of wealth and education. |
| Who were the bourgeoisie in France seen as equal to? | The peasants of the Third Estate |
| The conditions of urban workers in France was called? | Sans culottes |
| Many French philosophers made powerful arguments in favor of...? | A fair government, equal treatment of all citizens, the separation of governmental powers, and civil rights |
| What is civil rights? | Freedom for all citizens |
| What came up with the idea of separating governmental powers? | Montesquieu |
| How many stages were there to the French Revolution? | Four |
| What was the first stage of the French Revolution? | The aristocrats challenged the king, and Louis XVI called the Estates General, who he hadn't met with in 175 years |
| In the second stage of the French Revolution, what did the bourgeoisie challenge? | The voting process in Estates General |
| What were the three estates in France? | The clergy, nobility, and then everybody else |
| What did the Third Estate in France want? | Sweeping changes that would hurt others |
| What was the vote when the Third Estate in France wanted sweeping changes? | The third estate lost the vote 2-1 |
| What did the Third Estate in France declare themselves? | The National Assembly |
| What did the Third Estate in France create when they found themselves locked out of the hall? | The Tennis Court Oath |
| What did the Third Estate in France demand, along with change? | A constitution |
| What did the Storming of Bastille in France start? | A wave of revolutions |
| Who supported the revolution in Paris? | Peasants in the countryside |
| Where were Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette brought and why? | Brought to Paris for "safety" |
| What happened at the French Republic: National Convention? | The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted |
| In the Declaration of the Rights of Man, what were natural rights based on? | The Enlighenment, English Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence |
| What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man guarantee? | Freedoms of the press and religion, and increased voting rights |
| The ideas of the Declaration of the Rights of Man swept across Europe and encouraged what? | Other revolts |
| What were the ideas of the Declaration of the Rights of Man? | Freedom, equality, and rule of law |
| What is rule of law? | It means that no one is above the law |
| What did the French Republic's National Convention alter the monopoly of and how? | The Catholic Church by giving freedom of worhsip |
| The Constitutional monarchy in France angered who? | Those who wanted to get rid of the king, and those who wanted to preserve the feudal system |
| What happened in Marie Antoinette's home country, Austria? | They got Prussia to invade France to restore the monarchy |
| What was Jaccobins? | A sans culottes |
| What was the new constitution in France? | It said a National Assembly would replace the king |
| What was the Reign of Terror? | Robespierre, afraid of foreign threats and domestic chaos, beheaded tens of thousands of Frenchmen. He went too far and was eventually beheaded himself. |
| What was a precedent to the Reign of Terror? | Universal male suffrage and universal military conscription |
| What was the directory in France? | A five man government who focused on issues abroad to take their minds off of domestic problems |
| What was the cycle of revolution in France? | Initially, there was liberal nobility and a wealthy middle class. The radical representatives of the poor took over, then it ends up moving to the middle. People wanted to go back to an autocracy. |
| What happened at the National Assembly in France? | They set of a limited monarchy where Louis XVI sat on the throne, but it had power to assembly, and there was a revocation of privileges of the Roman Catholic Church |
| The rights established at the National Assembly were not extended to whom? | Jews, Protestants, Blacks, and Women |
| What phase was the National Assembly, and what phase was the National Convention? | Assembly - Moderate Convention - Radical |
| What did the National Convention - Legislative Assembly - in France abolish? | The monarchy and aristocracy |
| What eventually happened to the royal family in France? | They were captured trying to escape France |
| The threat of foreign invasion led Prussia, Russia, Austria, and Great Britain to try and maintain what? | A monarchy |
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