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5.1-2 Enlightenment
AP World History Enlightenment 5.1-5.2
Question | Answer |
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What challenged the political and gender hierarchies during the Enlightenment era? | Demands for women’s suffrage and an emergent feminism challenged political and gender hierarchies. |
What was the name of the French woman who was married and widowed when she was in her teens? | Olympe de Gouges b.1748 France, forced to marry age 16, he died a year later, she wrote plays that shared her views |
What did Olympe de Gouges write and what was it based on? | She wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen 1791; based on Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789, petition by women 1789 for equality was ignored |
What were the rights granted to women in the constitution of 1791? | Constitution 1791 no rights for women; |
What did Ollympe gain for her writings and opinions? | Olympe executed 1793 for her writing |
Who was Wollstonecraft? | Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1759-1797 UK, (died in childbirth, her daughter authored Frankenstein) wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 |
What was Wollstonecraft's writing a response to? | Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 partly in response to French Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen |
Who was the mother of the author of Frankenstein? | Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1759-1797 UK, (died in childbirth, her daughter authored Frankenstein) Mary Shelley |
What did Mary Wollstonecraft advocate for? | Like others, Wollstonecraft advocated for the right to education. |
What was the Seneca Falls Conference about? | This conference looked back to above two docs (and arose in part due to limitations in women working for abolition), and to the US Declaration of Independence |
Who organized it? | Seneca Falls Conference (NY 1848) organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902, Lucretia Mott and others |
What document came out of the Seneca Falls Conference? | The Seneca Falls document A Declaration of Sentiments called for equality of citizenship |
What kind of a response did the petition for women's rights get ? | Most women’s rights petitions were ignored. |
What resulted in the establishment of new nation-states around the world? | The 18th century marked the beginning of an intense period of revolution and rebellion against existing governments, leading to the establishment of new nation-states around the world. |
What was used by governments to foster a sense of unity within the country? | People around the world developed a new sense of commonality based on language, religion, social customs, and territory. This was sometimes harnessed by governments to foster a sense of unity. Call for national unification or liberation: |
Why did Jose Rizal fight a propaganda movement in the Philippines? | Propaganda Movement in the Philippines: Jose Rizal 1880s-1890s, seeking liberation from Spain 1898, then US war |
Maori nationalism | Maori nationalism and the New Zealand wars in New Zealand: defeated mid 1800s and then became a part of the UK empire. |
What impacted Puerto Rico? | Puerto Rico—writings of female Lola Rodríguez de Tió 1843-1924; a colony of Spain, it was made a territory of the US after the Spanish American war 1898 |
Who pushed for small wars to inspire a larger German nation? | German unification: Chancellor Bismarck of Prussia pushed for small wars with its neighbors to inspire a larger German nation. This was achieved in 1871, see political cartoons. |
What kingdoms were unified in Italy in 1861? | Italian unification of several kingdoms (Sardinia, Sicily, Papal States) was declared in 1861 although some provinces had not yet been annexed. |
Balkan nationalisms | Balkan nationalisms: Greece declared independence from the Ottoman Empire 1821 and then fought to achieve it. |
Who did the Serbs obtain freedom from in the 19th century? | Serbian freedom was obtained gradually in the 19th century from the Ottoman Empire. |
What was Albania's fight for independence like? Who was it against? | Albania struggled for independence in the 19th century and gained it in the early 20th c. from the Ottoman Empire. |
What was Ottomanism? | Ottomanism was a quest by some to strengthen the empire (sick man of Europe) by greater equality of minorities. It was accompanied by a push for modernization, but the government resisted and held on to power until the end of WWI. |