Rise of Markets
The most profitable joint-stock company in human history that was created by the Dutch.
What was the Dutch East India Company?
A war with three theaters—all on different continents—that many historians argue was the real first world war.
What was the Seven Years' War?
The three levels of French society prior to the revolution, in order from highest to lowest.
What were the clergy, nobility, and third estate?
An adjective that describes the political viewpoint of reactions to the French Revolution that found it way too radical, and that progress needs slower and safer changes.
What is conservative?
The title Napoleon gave himself after establishing the Consulate in France.
What is First Consul?
A joint-stock company from Great Britain that provided stiff competition to the Dutch East India Company.
What was the British East India Company?
What was the main reason that sparked the Seven Years' War?
Frederick II of Prussia refused to return Silesia to Austria as stipulated in their peace treaty.
Economic crises, imbalance of the estates-general (class conflict), bread shortages, and Enlightenment ideas.
What were the main causes of the French Revolution?
The name of the French colony in the Caribbean islands wherein the Haitian Revolution took place.
What is Saint-Domingue?
The full title of Napoleon after crowning himself in 1804.
What was Emperor Napoleon I?
A set of policies that forced all goods to Britain or its colonies to be shipped using British vessels and created a monopoly for British merchants.
What were the Navigation Acts?
The center of British imperial control in India that France seized in the War of Austrian Succession and refused to return during the Seven Years' War.
What was Madras?
An event in which the National Assembly was barred from the Estates-General and they went into a tennis court to swear not to leave until a new constitution was drafted.
What was the tennis court oath?
The three-worded battle cry of the French Revolution that absolutely did not extend to the enslaved African laborers in Haiti.
What was "liberty, equality, fraternity"?
The name for Napoleon's domestic reform policies that reasserted three key principles of the French Revolution.
What was the Napoleonic Code?
The country that became Britain's main rival in the Atlantic trade after the Navigation Acts hindered the Dutch's trading power.
What is France?
The North American theater of the Seven Years' War wherein the French teamed up with Indigenous warriors to fight the British.
What was the French and Indian War?
The woman who drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.
Who was Olympe de Gouges?
The leader of the slave rebellion in Haiti who teamed up with Britain to defeat France then switched sides later to fight the Spanish on behalf of the French.
Who was Toussaint L'Overture?
The religious reform Napoleon instituted after Robespierre essentially abolished the Catholic Church. This reform allowed French Catholics to worship freely.
What was the Concordat of Bologna (1801)?
A peace treaty signed in 1713 that forced France's colonial holdings and Spain's slave trade to Great Britain, resulting in a massive shift of economic power to Britain's favor.
What was the Treaty of Utrecht?
The peace treaty signed between France and Britain to end their war in North America which rewarded Britain with parts of Canada and all of "their" land east of the Mississippi River.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
The name of the man who created the Committee of Public Safety that enabled French radicals to silence any signs of dissent with a guillotine.
Maximillien de Robespierre
When L'Ouveture was arrested and deported back to France, this lieutenant took charge, defeated the French, and proclaimed independence for Haiti in 1804.
Who was [Jean-Jacques] Dessaline?
A blockade Napoleon placed on trade that mandated no British ships could dock at any French-controlled ports because he could not dominate Great Britain.
What was the Continental System?