Age of Absolutism
This belief was used to justify the privilege of kings to have absolute control over their country and its people.
What is "divine right"?
Most thinkers during the Enlightenment argued that society could be improved if people used this brain-based method to solve problems.
What is "reason"?
Before the French Revolution, inequality existed in French society and citizens were broken up by this class system.
What was the Ancien Regime or the Estates System?
The term for seizing lands like the Netherlands, Italy and Germany.
What is annex?
This former slave helped Haiti to free itself from France.
Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?
Type of housing that most factory workers lived in during the 1800s.
What were tenements?
This individual promoted the arts in their country, but also bankrupted the economy through oversees wars and building a lavish palace.
Who was Louis XIV?
This thinker was against all types of monarchies and thought that life would be better if all people in society were educated.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
Before 1789, the tax burden largely fell upon this overworked group.
What was the 3rd Estate?
In 1814, this group worked to redraw the map of Europe and rebuild a balance of power in Europe.
What was The Congress of Vienna?
Nicknamed "the Liberator, this LA revolutionary freed countries including Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela from Spanish rule.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
3 primary factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.
What are population increases, agricultural revolution, advancements in technology, geography, stable government, wealth, educated citizenry and natural resources?
Louis XIV was not limited in his power (like the kings of England), because this advisory group had not met in decades.
What was the "Estates General"?
This thinker, who influenced the American Revolution believed that citizens could revolt if their government broke the social contract.
Who was John Locke?
This document, finally signed by Louis XVI after women stormed Versaille, created a social contract where men were guaranteed basic rights.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Under this set of laws women lost rights they had gained during the Revolution.
What were the Napoleonic Codes?
The three regions that make up Latin America.
What is South America, Central America and the Caribbean?
The primary argument of Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto.
What is to revolt against the capitalists who owned the factories and oppressed them?
This Monarch brought western ideas and technology to their country, brought the church under their control and executed those who opposed their rule (even the palace guards)
Who was Peter the Great?
This thinker argued that having separate branches of government reduced the chance of tyranny.
Who was Montesquieu?
The primary reason why monarchs outside of France were against the Revolution.
What is that they were afraid France's ideas of freedom would spread to their countries, thereby threatening their rule?
2 economic reforms that Napoleon put in place.
What were building roads and canals to increase trade, price controls and fair taxation across the various groups in society?
The vast majority of revolutions in Latin America were completed by this decade in the 1800s.
What is the 1830s?
Three characteristics of the living conditions for working class citizens living in British cities in the mid-1800s.
What are cramped, dirty, dangerous, not well ventilated?
This revolution in England rever resulted in bloodshed.
What was the Glorious Revolution?
This pre-Enlightenment thinker argued that people were naturally selfish and greedy and that an absolute monarch was the only way to control people.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
The two primary reasons why France had serious economic problems in 1789.
What is expense of war, lavish spending and borrowing too much money?
2 positive social reforms that Napoleon put in place.
What were religious tolerance, merit based jobs, public education, reduction of class differences?
Two of the five major reasons why people in LA decided to revolt.
What are Enlightenment ideas, the weakening of Spanish power, nationalism, strong leaders and discontent with class differences?
2 ways that life improved for the people living in British cities by the end of the 1800s
What are the increase of wages, child labor laws, labor unions and workplace laws, new products, new technology, better medicine?
In this degree, the Protestants of France were given religious freedom.
What was the "Edict of Nantes"?
Which basic right was Voltaire supporting in his quote, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?
What is the right of free speech?
The main purpose of this group, led by Robespierre, was to eliminate all opposition to the Revolution.
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
In this final battle, Napoleon suffered his final defeat before abdicating the throne for the last time.
What was the Battle of Waterloo?
The correct order of the Spanish Castas from low to high.
What is... enslaved Africans, Mestizos/Mulattoes, Creoles and Peninsulares?
Another word for the group of elites in British 19th Century society who industrialized British cities, took advantage of workers, bought up the farmland and greatly increased their own wealth
Who were the bourgeoisie?