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1
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What is divine right

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King believes he is chosen by God

2
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How did the creation of bureaucracies in France increase the power of the king?

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Took power away from other nobles

3
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What did Absolutism lead to in Europe?

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Wars, over-taxation, revolutions, growth of armoes

4
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What was the First Estate in France?

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Clergy (Catholic church)

5
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The Second Estate

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Nobility (including the King)

6
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The Third Estate

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Everyone else (peasants, workers)

7
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Who were the Bourgeoisie?

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(Rich from the 3rd estate)

8
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What is the Old Regime?

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The way government was run before the French Revolution

9
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Louis XIV was also known as

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Sun King

10
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What did Louis XIV build as monument to his power and status as an absolute monarch?

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The Palace of Versailles

11
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How did Louis XIV strip the power of other nobles to make him more powerful?

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Made all the nobles move to Versailles where he could control them

12
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What did Frederick the Great of Prussia see as his primary role as king?

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Expand the size of his army and territory

13
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Why did King Louis XVI call for the Estates-General, or a meeting of all three Estates?

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France was bankrupt; needed to raise taxes

14
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Why did the Third Estate get kicked out of the Estates-General?

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They wanted more power and representation

15
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What was the Tennis Court Oath?

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3rd estate vow to stay and create a constitution

16
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What did the Third Estate call their new government?

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National Assembly

17
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What revolt that started the French Revolution (also the date of France’s Independence)?

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Storming of the Bastille

18
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What French document that was modeled after the Declaration of Independence?

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

19
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In 1792, the Nation Convention made France what kind of government?

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A republic

20
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What did the French National Convention abolish in 1792?

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The monarch/nobility

21
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What happened to Louis XVI after the tried to escape France in 1792?

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Put on trial for treason; found guilty and was executed

22
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The period in France from 1793-1794, under the rule of Robespierre is called?

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The Reign of Terror

23
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Who took power in a coup d’état in 1799; later crowned himself emperor of France in 1804?

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Napoleon

24
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What was Napoleon’s escape from exile and last attempt to rule France called?

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100 days

25
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Where did Napoleon lose most of his army, forcing him into exile?

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Russia

26
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What was the agreement between the Catholic Church and Napoleon called?

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Concordat

27
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What was the Continental System, imposed by Napoleon?

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Attempt to cut off (isolate) Britain from trading with the rest of Europe

28
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What was the common name for the Civil Code of 1804 in France?

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Napoleonic Code

29
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What battle marked the final end to Napoleon and the French Revolution in 1815?

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Battle of Waterloo

30
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What was the main goal of the Congress of Vienna in 1815?

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To prevent new revolutions

31
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What did the Karlsbad decrees try to do?

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Limit free speech in Germany

32
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Why could only 8% of the population of Britain vote in 1815?

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Only land owning men could vote; fewer people owned land due to industrialization

33
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Although it failed at first, what did the People’s Charter of 1838 attempt to do in Britain?

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Grant suffrage (the right to vote) to all men

34
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Who publised “The Communist Manifesto” in 1848?

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Karl Marx

35
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Who was the last French king, also called the “bourgeoisie monarch”?

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Louis-Philippe

36
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Who created the liberal economic philosophy of “laissez-faire”?

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Adam Smith

37
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Who developed the germ theory?

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Lohis Pasteur

38
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Why did romance develop in cities, although mainly among the lower classes?

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People in cities didn’t know, as they did in small towns

39
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Name 3 reasons women started having fewer children in the 1800’s

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Fewer women dying in childbirth; women waiting longer to marry; children valued more, seen as economic “units”; more food led to lower children mortality

40
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The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 split the world between what 2 countries?

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Spain/Portugal

41
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The widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, and ideas between the Old World and the New World is called?

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The Columbian Exchange

42
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Which two men helped South America to become independent from Spain in the 1810’s?

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Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar

43
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Which two men helped Mexico to become independent from Spain in the 1810’s?

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Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Maria Morelos

44
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What is the main result of the liberalism movement?

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It reduced the power of kings and churches and gave more power to common people

45
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What two countries are formed in Europe in the mid-1800’s directly as a result of the liberalism and nationalism movements?

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Germany and Italy

46
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What is Nationalism?

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Loyalty to your nation with a common culture over a king/empire

47
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Define the following political philosophies of the 1800’s in Europe and who supported it: Liberal, Conservative, Radical

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Liberal: middle-class that wanted elected parliaments, but only the educated and landowners could vote
Conservative: nobles and the wealthy that wanted to continue traditional monarchies
Radical: wanted democracy and the vote for all men, as in France and the French Revolution
48
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What is an absolute monarch

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King with complete power; doesn’t share power