Revolutions Flashcards

(41 cards)

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Steps of a revolution

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Outbreak, Honeymoon under Moderates, Radicalization of Revolutionary, Restoration of stability

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Voltaire’s beliefs

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Freedom in religion and speech

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Diderot wrote the ________

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Encyclopedia

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Montesquieu’s thoughts

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Separation of powers

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Hobbes

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Complete giving up of one’s rights to gov.’t

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Locke

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Right to overthrow tyrannical government, natural rights

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Rousseau

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One must give up partial rights to government as part of the social contract

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Baroque music

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Bach, Mozart

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Baroque music was ______

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full of emotion, unrestrained

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Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great were what type of rulers?

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Enlightened despots

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Salon

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where upper class individuals would have philosophical talks

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All weather roads and improvements in ship design led to

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lower transportation costs

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New crops, drills, and farming techniques led to the _______

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second agricultural revolution

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Timeline of England’s monarchical transformation

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James 1, Charles I (Absolutist) –> Civil War (Puritan Revolution) Cromwell’s Puritan Theocracy –> Charles II Restoration –> Absolutist James II –> Glorious Revolution –> William & Mary Rule

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Tories are _____ whereas the Whigs were ______

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conservative, liberal

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Petition of Right

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Charles I forced to sign this; said there were rights the King could not violate, reaffirmed Magna Carta

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English Bill of Rights

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freedom of speech, increased parliamentary powers

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Seven year’s war

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French + Iroquois vs Algonquin + British/Americans. At first French won, then Britain did.

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Maximilien Robespierre

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led the extreme Montagnards during the Reign of Terror

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Eugene Delacroix

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an intensely Romantic painter that showed many depictions of the FR

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Ruler after the Reign of Terror, led a coup to overthrow the Directory

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Thermidorean Phase

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Government restructuring after the Terror - the Directory formed, which then came to abuse its power

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Prince Metternich

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Led the Congress of Vienna, which reorganized the powers in Europe so that none could dominate the others

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Versailles

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The palace in France, which required a lot of money to uphold. There was a women’s march here which forced Louis XVI to abdicate to paris.

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Proletariat
the working urban peasantry
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Bourgeoisie
the middle class
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Petit bourgeoisie
The idea that everyone (middle class) should own land
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sans-culottes
those who didn't wear breeches --> middle class revolutionaries
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la marseillas
The French national anthem composed during the FR
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committee of public safety
political body that gained almost dictatorial control over France during the Reign of Terror
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Neo-classical art
refined, less emotion, fine design, subdued palette, idealized
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Romanticism
lots of emotion bursting from everywhere, concepts as entities
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Continental System
Napoleon's attempt to blockade Britain and stop trade happening
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Maroons
the landowning aristocracy in Haiti
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Cult of the Supreme Being
deism by Robespierre intended to become state religion (Rejection of religion)
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Who began the revolution in Mexico?
Creole priest named Miguel Hidalgo
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caudillos
a militia leader with charisma
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centralists in Mexico
favored strong central government, paid national army
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federalists in Mexico
preferred limited government
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Augustin de Iturbide
a Creole officer at the head of an army who was proclaimed emperor of Mexico
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juntas
local governments that arose in areas trying to maintain independence