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| 6217840487 | Nationalism | advocacy of political independence for a particular country | 0 | |
| 6217842903 | Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. | 1 | |
| 6217845741 | Olympe de Gouges | French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience | 2 | |
| 6217859063 | Voltaire | French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church | 3 | |
| 6217859064 | Salons | Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas | 4 | |
| 6217861212 | Liberals | Political viewpoint with origins in western Europe during the 19th century; stressed limited state interference in individual life, representation of propertied people in government; urged importance of constitutional rule and parliaments. | 5 | |
| 6217861213 | First Estate | made up of the clergy | 6 | |
| 6217863959 | Second Estate | made up of the nobility | 7 | |
| 6217863960 | Third Estate | made up of all the population who weren't clergy or nobility | 8 | |
| 6217865891 | Bastille | A prison that was attacked during the french revolution. The storming of Bastille is commonly thought of as the first event in the revolution. | 9 | |
| 6217865892 | Zionism | movement for Jews to return to the Promised Land | 10 | |
| 6217998681 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. | 11 | |
| 6217999958 | Social Contract | A book, written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in a commercial society | 12 | |
| 6218002330 | Baron Montesquieu | French enlightenment thinker; wrote "The Spirit of the Laws" talking of his ideas of government like checks and balances and the threes national branches | 13 | |
| 6218005576 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French man who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy | 14 | |
| 6218007362 | Seperation of Powers | the division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government | 15 | |
| 6218009128 | Checks and Balances | A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power | 16 | |
| 6218010935 | Code Napoleon | Civil code put out by Napoleon that granted equality of around male citizens before law and granted absolute security of wealth and private property. Napoleon also secured this creating Bank of France which loyally served interests of both state and financial oligarchy. | 17 | |
| 6218010936 | Philosophes | - for example: John Locke, Voltaire, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau - rarely challenged monarchical rule, but sought instead o make kings responsible to the people the governed - philosophical thinkers - called for freedom and equality and began to question long-standing notions of sovereignty - the intellectuals of the 18th century Enlightenment | 18 | |
| 6218014770 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French general who became emperor of the French; known for shortness; lost against Russians | 19 | |
| 6218016669 | King Louis XVI | King of France. In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793. | 20 | |
| 6218018847 | Maximilien Robespierre | one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. | 21 | |
| 6218022683 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Led a slave rebellion which took control of Haiti, the most important island of France's Caribbean possessions. The rebellion led Napoleon to feel that New World colonies were more trouble than they were worth, and encouraged him to sell Louisiana to the U.S. | 22 | |
| 6218027505 | Miguel Hidalgo | led a group of peasants in a revolt against the dominant Peninsulars under the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe. After clashes with the Creole people and other townspeople, the group disbanded. captured on 21 March 1811, and executed on 30 July. rebellion was the beginning of what would become the Mexican War of Independence | 23 | |
| 6218149733 | Jose de San Martin | South American general and statesman, born in Argentina: leader in winning independence for Argentina, Peru, and Chile; protector of Peru | 24 | |
| 6218149747 | Simon Bolivar | 1783-1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule. Founded Bolivia. Agreed to emancipation in order to draw slaves and freemen to his cause and to gain supplies from Haiti. | 25 | |
| 6218154057 | Otto Von Bismarck | Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871, when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist, he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire (714) | 26 | |
| 6218156185 | Congress of Vienna | Met in 1815 after the defeat of France to restore the European balance of power. | 27 | |
| 6218157613 | Conservatives | a person who believes government power, particularly in the economy, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom | 28 | |
| 6218159275 | Realpolitik | "realistic politics," practical politics, ends justified the means, power more important than principles | 29 | |
| 6218161009 | Socialism | A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. | 30 | |
| 6218161010 | Adam Smith | - Scottish philosopher - 1723- 1790 - held that society would prosper when individuals pursued their own economic interests - most important of the early apostles of capitalism - turned his attention to economic affairs and held hat laws of supply and demand determine what happens in the marketplace | 31 | |
| 6218165503 | Laissez-faire | A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. | 32 |
