Conflicts
Britain lost money fighting France in the Seven Years’ War and the French and Indian War, causing them to raise _____ on the American colonies.
Taxes
The revolution in thinking that used reason to study human behavior and solve society’s problems.
The Enlightenment
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire.
French Enlightenment thinker (philosophe) who exposed abuses of power and defended the principle of freedom of speech. He targeted corrupt officials and lazy aristocrats. With his pen, he battled inequality, injustice, and superstition. He hated the slave trade and religious prejudice.
Voltaire
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to this United States document.
Constitution
Colonists threw a cargo of British tea into the Boston Harbor to protest a tax on tea.
Boston Tea Party
English Enlightenment thinker who believed people are basically reasonable and moral. He also believed that people have certain natural rights, or rights belonging to humans from birth, including the right to life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
Britain, France, Serbia, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, United States.
Allied Powers
British social critic who argued that women were being excluded from the social contract itself. In A Vindication of the Rights of Women she called for equal education for girls and boys to give women the tools they needed to participate equally with men in public life.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Which battle of the American Revolution is the final one, in which British General Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces?
Yorktown
British soldiers shot into a crowd of American colonists after they threw rocks and snowballs at them.
Boston Massacre
English enlightenment thinker who believed people are “brutish” by nature: cruel, greedy, and selfish, and if not strictly controlled, they would fight, rob, and oppress one another. Therefore, he believed they needed to be controlled by an absolute monarchy.
Thomas Hobbes
The four M.A.I.N. causes of World War I.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Assassinated by a serbian terrorist, starting World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Trench warfare happened in this location during World War I.
Western Front
This battle of the American Revolution is considered the turning point in the war since it convinced France to help the American colonists.
Saratoga
French Enlightenment thinker (philosophe) who proposed the ideas of separation of powers and checks and balances to protect liberty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Type of nationalism that believes all Slavic peoples share a common nationality.
Pan-slavism
King of Enland during the American Revolution.
George III
Freedom of the seas, free trade, reduction of arms, and an end to secret treaties.
President Wilson's Fourteen Points
About 1,200 passengers were killed, including 128 Americans when Germany torpedoed this British passenger liner.
The Lusitania
In 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted this document. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, it reflects John Locke’s ideas about the rights to “life, liberty, and property.” Because the king had trampled on colonists’ natural rights, Jefferson argued, the colonists had the right to revolt and set up a new government to protect them.
The Declaration of Independence
The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I. It affected Germany in these three ways.
It forced Germany to assume full blame for the war, shrank their military, and imposed huge reparations (payments for war damage) that their war-battered economy could not afford.
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The Ottoman Empire collapsed, and new nations emerged at the end of this event.
World War I