War and Beginnings of War
The war was to decide which northern empire, Russia's or Sweden's, was to be the greatest.
What is the Great Northern War?
He embarked on a Grand Embassy to learn as much as he could about Western technology, education and the arts.
Who is Peter the Great?
A constitution that established a weak federal government with very limited powers over the original 13 states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Unapologetically hedonistic and highly irreligious.
How was Voltaire described?
British mercantilism, violation of colonists rights as Englishmen and taxation without representation.
What were the colonists main complaints against King George III and Parliament?
The first major war fought to preserve Europe’s balance of power that ended with Treaty of Utrecht.
What is the War of Spanish Succession?
The FIRST female poet ever published in the USA.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
They met as secretly as possible from May 25-September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to redesign the federal government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
A volunteer army created, trained and armed by the revolutionaries as a result of the Brunswick Manifesto.
Who were the federes?
If any government turns tyrannical, and starts taking away the God-given rights it is designed to protect, then the people have a right to overthrow that government.
What is one of the 4 principles of government based on John Locke's political philosophy?
As a contest to see who would control the Ohio country, Britain or France.
How did the French and Indian War begin?
He issued the Edict of Expulsion (1587), a law that ordered Christian missionaries out of Japan, on pain of death.
Who is Hideyoshi?
Strong federal government and voting rights only for men who owned a certain amount of property.
What were two of the principles favored by the Federalist party?
When Napoleon seized power as First Consul via the Constitution of the Year VIII and France lost its republican government.
What was the official end of the French Revolution?
Famine, poverty and callous nobles.
What did enlightenment philosophy teach poor Frenchmen to blame their wealthy government for?
A group assembled by the colonists in September-October 1774 in response to the injustices of the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
He and his heirs used 3 main tactics to transform Brandenburg-Prussia from a wasteland into a major Central European power within just a few decades: Militarism, compulsory education and racism & nationalism.
Who is Frederick William I?
A set of 10 amendments added to the Constitution to protect citizens’ and states’ rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
To prevent the French revolution’s ideals from spreading to the rest of Europe.
Why did Austria and Prussia form the First Coalition?
Although America had once benefited from its connection to Britain, it no longer was the case.
What was one of Thomas Paine's arguments in "Common Sense"?
The main result of this war is that Frederick the Great captured Silesia for Prussia which earned Prussia a place on the list of Europe’s great powers.
What is the War of Austrian Succession?
A number of underground organizations formed to protest the Stamp Act and other hated British laws. They organized countless protests against taxation without representation in various forms, including: sarcastic political cartoons or burning in effigy hated Loyalists.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Legislative with a bicameral Congress (upper and lower house)
Executive with a single powerful president (chosen by Congress)
Judicial with one or more supreme courts and other lesser courts (chosen by Congress)
What were the 3 distinct branches of government James Madison called for in the Virginia Plan?
A law that allowed the Montagnards to jail and execute anyone, at any time, who wasn’t a Montagnard. This marked the beginning of the Reign of Terror.
What was the Law of Suspects?
The Second Continental Congress appealed directly to King George III in this document asking him to intervene with Parliament on the Colonies’ behalf. King George III rejected the petition and instead issued the Proclamation of Rebellion, declaring that the colonies were in “open and avowed rebellion” against the crown.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?