It Does not Matter, just get it through your head Terms
100
Is the idea that generally encourages individual freedom and social progress.
What is liberalism?
100
An assembly that advised the king of France.
What was the Estates General?
100
The practice by which one naiton gains and maintains political, social, and economic control over another nation.
What is imperialism?
100
To assemble and be read to move, as for war.
What is mobilize?
100
A privately owned ship comissioned by a government to attack and capture enemy ships, especially commercial ships.
What is a privateer?
200
A governor of several countries or provinces who ruled as the representative of a monarch.
Who was a viceroy?
200
A government run by religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
200
A belief that a monarch's right to rule comes directly from God, not from the consent of the people.
What is divine right?
200
The king's claim of sole authority.
What is sovereign power?
200
The brutal program initiated by the French National Convention's Committee of Public Safety to silent critics of the republic.
What was the Reign of Terror?
300
The adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture.
What is westernization?
300
Is a soldier serving in a foreign army for pay.
Who is a mercenary?
300
The European movment calling for reform within the Roman Catholic Church?
What is the Reformation?
300
The "rebirth" of European art and learning beginning in the 1300s, marked by an interest in Greek and Latin literature and art, individualism, and intellectual and scientific activity.
What was the Renaissance?
300
The name of the political and social system of France before 1789.
What was the Old Regime?
400
Deals with worldly matters, rather than spiritual matters.
What is secular?
400
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
400
The second leg of the triangular trade route in which slaves were shipped across the Atlantic.
What was the Middle Passage?
400
A new spirit of investigation based on rationalism and natural law aimed at improving the human condition in society. Started in France with Voltair as one of its leaders.
What was the Enlightenment?
400
The hated prison fortressthat was stormed by the working people of Paris on July 14, 1789.
What was the Bastille?
500
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
500
Members of the Church of England who broke away from it for religious reasons. Included Puritans and Separatists.
Who are dissenters?
500
Prior to World War I, the Triple Alliance was made up of these countries.
What were Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
500
The Bessemer process made this substance the building blocks for the Industrial Revolution.