Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment
The theory explaining that the sun is the center of the universe.
What is the heliocentric theory?
A French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
The movement of people from farms to cities.
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
A mandatory financial charge or payment collected by a government from individuals and businesses to fund public services, goods, and government operations.
What are taxes?
A system where a single ruler, a monarch (king or queen), holds supreme, unrestricted power. Often justified by the "divine right of kings" to rule by God's will.
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
Where the Three Estates (The Clergy, the Nobility, the Commoners) would meet to act as advisories to the King.
What was the Estates General?
Worker-led organizations that began in the Industrial Revolution and collectively bargain with employers to improve wages, benefits, working conditions, and job security.
What is a Union?
Precious raw materials sought after by imperial powers in Africa.
What are diamond and/or gold?
A drawing (often including caricature) made for the purpose of conveying editorial commentary on politics, politicians, and current events.
What is a Political Cartoon?
Where social gatherings typically took place and people would discuss new Enlightenment ideas.
What were salons?
A phase of the French Revolution in which there were numerous executions. Led by Maximilien Robespierre.
What was the Reign of Terror?
An economic system that supports public ownership.
What is Socialism?
A series of negotiations in Berlin, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin in Central Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Representing the collective interest or common good of a community, distinct from the sum of individual desires.
What is General Will?
Philosopher who's core beliefs centered on natural rights (life, liberty, property), the social contract (government by consent), limited government with separated powers (legislative/executive), and religious toleration, arguing people are born as blank slates (tabula rasa) and gain knowledge through experience.
Who is John Locke?
A successful insurrection by rebellious self-liberated enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue. Resulting in Haitian victory, abolition of slavery, independence of Haiti, massacres of French civilians.
What was the Haitian Revolution?
Drafted by the National Assembly during the French Revolution, defines the natural and inalienable rights of man, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the presumption of innocence.
What is the Declaration of Right of Man?
A Native Indian that served for the British East India Company.
The machine used for beheading, primarily used during the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
Philosopher who's core beliefs centered on the separation of powers (legislative, executive, judicial) to prevent tyranny,
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
The vow "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the constitution of the kingdom is established" became a pivotal event in the French Revolution.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
A sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government.
What is a coup?
Proposed by the United States to make equal trade access to China for all nations and respecting its territorial integrity to prevent monopoly by a single power.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Money or assets (like equipment, buildings, or even skills) used to generate more wealth or produce goods and services, funding business operations, growth, and investment
What is Capital?