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conservative austrian diplomat who sought a balance of power between the nations of europe   klemens von metternich  
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radical jacobin leader associated with the worst excesses of the french revolution   maximilien robespierre  
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political theorist of the 17 century who inspired the revolutions of the 18th century   john locke  
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leader who when he plotted with austria to invade france, destroyed the possibility of a constitutional monarchy and invited his own execution   louis xvi  
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english feminist who argued that the ideals of the enlightenment natural rights, consent of the governed- should also be applied to women   mary wollstonecraft  
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revolutionary who armed with an education, organizational skills, and a determined army, liberated his island colony from french rule   toussaint louverture  
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considered the george washington of latin america   simon bolivar  
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leader who, although regarded as one of the greatest military leaders of any age, commited the fatal mistake of overconfidence   napolean bonaparte  
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french feminist who insisted that women should become full citizens of revolutionary france, an idea for which she was eventually executed   olympe de gouges  
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prime minister of prussia and architect of germany unification   otto von bismarck  
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spokesman for british conservatism who accepted change that was gradual and consistent with tradition   edmund burke  
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spokesman for british lieralism who argued for complete freedom of speech and freedom of religion   john stuart mill  
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the ideas of the enlightenment challenged the long term assumptions about sovereignty and instead proposed that   governments are bound to the will of the people  
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which of the following could be considered an expression of enlightened ideas about government   the declaration of independence  
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the american colonists won their bid for independence primarily because   the french and the dutch decided to support them against the british  
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embedded in the american constitution is the principle of   popular sovereignty  
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which of the following was not one of the causes of the french revolution of 1789   accusation of treason against louis XVI  
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which of the following was not one of the provisions of the new french constitution of 1791   all adult males were given the right to vote in national elections  
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under the rule of the convention, french women   gained important property rights and the right to a divorce  
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napoleon bonaparte rose to power as   a military hero  
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in general napoleon championed   equality under the law but not political freedom  
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which of the following is not a correct explanation of why the haitian revolution succeeded   the revolutionaries had the support of british and spanish forces  
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in leading the revolutions of south america, simon bolivar advocated   popular sovereignty  
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revolutions in latin america were frequently a power struggle between what two groups   peninsulares and crioles  
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which latin american state gained independence as a monarchy   brazil  
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a political conservative in the 19th century would be likely to advocate   A. restoration of the French monarchy after the defeat of Napoleon. B)limiting suffrage to men of property. C)censorship as a reasonable means of preventing social unrest. D)government support of the established church. *E)All of the answers are corre  
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the first european power to abolish the slave trade was   britain  
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the last country to abolish slavery was   brazil  
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the american womens rights movement began   concurrent with the antislavery movement  
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which of the following would not be an example of cultural nationalism   A)the study of language. B)the study of history. C)collecting folk songs and fairy tales. D)anti-Semitism. *E)All of the answers are correct.  
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theodor herzl's zionism was the direct result of   his shock at the army's persecution of Alfred Dreyfus.  
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The German people united behind King Wilhelm because   the wars engineered by Bismarck generated strong nationalist sentiment.  
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sovereignty   political supremacy and the authority to rule  
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voltaire   philosophe, called for religious toleration and freedom to express their views openly  
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jean jacques rousseau   wrote the social contract, and argued that members of a society were collectively the sovereign  
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william wilberforce   prominent english philanthropist in parliament. he tirelessly attacked slavery on moral and religious grounds. parliament passed his bill to end the slave trade  
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end of slave trade   the U.S. in 1808 France in 1814 the Netherlands in 1817 Spain in 1845  
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slavery abolished   britain 1833 france 1848 the U.S. 1865 Cuba 1886 Brazil 1888  
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giuseppe mazzini   italian nationalist activist who formed a group called young italy that promoted independence from austrian and spanish rule and the establishment of an italian national state  
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zionism   a political movement that holds that the jewish people constitute a nation and have the right to their own national homeland.  
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theodor herzl   organized the first zionist congress in switzerland, which founded the world zionist organization  
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congress of vienna   the 'great powers' -Britain, austria, prussia, and russia attempted to restore the prerevolutionary order.  
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cavour and garibaldi   camillo di cavour- itailian prime minister, unified italy. allied w/france and expelled austrian authority garibaldi- led the unification movement  
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popular sovereignty   the notion that legitimate political authority resides not in kings, but in the people who make up a society  
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aristocratic governments   privileged elites supervised public affairs  
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sovereignty   political supremacy and the authority to rule  
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Rousseau   wrote the social contract, and argued that members of a society were collectively the sovereign  
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peace of paris   british government formally recognized american independence  
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estates general   assembly that represented the entire french population through groups  
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breakdown of the estates general   1st: 100,000 roman catholic clergy 2nd: 400,000 nobles 3rd: the rest; 24 million  
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voting in the estates general   1 vote per estate  
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national assembly   the 3rd estate seceded from the estates general  
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the goal of the national assembly   lierty, equality, and fraternity  
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the convention   legislative body abolished to monarchy and proclaimed france a republic  
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levee en mass   drafted people and resources for use in the war  
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main beneficiaries of independence in latin america   the creole elites  
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