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730-756 AP Key Terms
List of AP key terms from numbers 730 to 756
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| creator of germ theory and pasteurization - led to improved health | Louis Pasteur |
| sweet potato | important NA starch in China |
| manufactured goods | finished goods |
| pollution in the air; from coal | air pollution |
| water pollution | pollution in the water; from poor sanitation |
| cholera/tuberculosis | various diseases that spread through urban eras during the IR |
| affluent women with absolutely no lives; led the women’s rights movements at the end of the IR | upper class women |
| Victorian Age | the era of Britain’s industrial revolution and Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 to 1901 |
| Emancipation of Russian serfs | edict issued in 1861 by Alexander II |
| American view that preached women’s role was in the house taking care of the children | cult of domesticity |
| temperance | a movement to moderate and lessen alcohol consumption |
| constitutional monarchy | a monarchy whose power is defined and limited by a constitution (defines monarch as head of state) |
| John Locke | English philosopher who argued that the government’s power came from the people and that revolution against tyrants was acceptable |
| an agreement between a state and its citizens to define the state’s powers and the citizen’s rights | social contract |
| Seven Years War | global war between France and Britain from 1756 to 1763 |
| "taxation without representation | Taxes were levied on American colonies, but they were not represented in Britain’s parliament |
| Common Sense/Thomas Paine | writing by American revolutionary that advocated separation from Britain and republican government |
| document outlying America’s separation from Britain and the reasons why, written by American political and revolutionary leader | Declaration of Independence/Thomas Jefferson |
| absolute monarchy abuses power, policies of Louis XVI, economic troubles, war debts, and droughts | causes of French Revolution |
| First/Second/Third Estate | nobility, clergy, everybody else |
| National Assembly | France's representative body |
| French revolutionary document that outlined the rights of the people | Declaration of the Rights of Man |
| Reign of Terror | the period where the monarchy and aristocracy were targeted along with opponents of the French Revolution |
| Directory | the government of revolutionary France from 1795 to 1799 |
| calls for change from monarchy followed by moderate government followed by radical government followed by moderate government followed by monarchy | Cycle of Revolution |