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Revolutions review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tennis court oath | a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution. |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and the CiTennis Court Oathtizen | equal rights for all men |
| King Philip II of Spain | saw himself as the guardian of Catholicism , 1588 his armada was defeated by the English |
| James I of England believed in the divine right of kings | the idea that kings receive their power from God and are responsible only to God |
| Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the king’s forces allowed him to | take control of England and eventually establish a military dictatorship |
| foundation for a constitutional monarchy in England | Bill of Rights |
| Absolutism | government in which a ruler holds total power |
| Edict of Nantes | recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, and declared all Huguenots to be enemies of the state |
| Thirty Years’ War involved | France, Spain, Prussia (Germany) |
| Glorious Revolution | invasion of England by William of Orange, which overthrew James II with almost no bloodshed |
| Hapsburgs | unified the people they ruled by converting them to Catholicism |
| John Locke | people are molded by their experiences |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | in the concept of a social contract an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will |
| Montesquieu | system of checks and balances |
| Adam Smith | laissez-faire the state should not regulate the economy |
| In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin | Great Britain |
| first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution | cotton cloth |
| factory created a new labor system in which | products were produced by an assembly line of workers and animals |
| developed a steam engine | James Watt |
| social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution | emergence of the middle class and the working class |
| pitiful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to | socialism |
| bourgeoisie | middle class of France and a part of the Third Estate |
| Committee of Public Safety | took control of the French government in 1793 and established a Reign of Terror to defend against domestic threats |
| Napoleon’s greatest domestic achievement | Napoleonic Codes |
| Napoleon’s downfall began in 1812 when he decided to invade | Russia |
| believed a ruler with absolute power in a state was needed to preserve society | Thomas Hobbes |
| Peace of Westphalia | officially ended the Thirty Years’ War |
| introduced Western customs and ways of doing things to Russia | Peter the Great |
| group of French citizens who favored executing the king | Jacobins |
| island off the coast of Italy, where Napoleon was first exiled | Elba |
| site of Napoleon’s final defeat | Waterloo |
| attacking of this began the French Revolution. | Bastille |
| wife of King Louis XVI | Marie Antoinette |
| Led a slave revolt against the French in Haiti | Toussaint L'Overutre |
| Ivan the terrible | created private police force to arrest any suspicious persons 'out to get him', known as a brutal ruler |
| Catherine the Great's reign resulted in | greater subjugation of the peasantry |
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