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| 63431336 | Bourgeoisie | educated, middle class of France; provided force behind the Revolution | 0 | |
| 63431337 | Estates-General | The legislative assembly in France before the Revolution | 1 | |
| 63431338 | Bastille | Medieval fortress that was converted to a prison stormed by peasants for ammunition during the early stages of the French Revolution. | 2 | |
| 63431339 | Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794. | 3 | |
| 63431340 | The Terror | the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed | 4 | |
| 63431341 | Napoleon | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) | 5 | |
| 63431342 | Vodoun | A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. | 6 | |
| 63431343 | Toussaint | Began the revolt that eventually led to Haitian independence. Haiti becomes the first successful assault on colonial gov't. | 7 | |
| 63431344 | L'Ouverture | started revolution on Santo Domingo and Haiti | 8 | |
| 63431345 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 9 | |
| 63431346 | Miguel Hidalgo | Mexican priest who led peasants in call for independence and improved conditions | 10 | |
| 63431347 | US Bill of Rights | First ten amenments to the Constitution guaranteeing individual liberties and due process of law. | 11 | |
| 63431348 | Manifest Destiny | a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God) | 12 | |
| 63431349 | Abolition | the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | 13 | |
| 63431350 | Creole | a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States (especially Louisiana) | 14 | |
| 63431351 | Mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | 15 | |
| 63431352 | Gadsen Purchase | strip of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico for which the United States paid Mexico $10 million in 1853. | 16 | |
| 63431353 | Louisiana Purchase | territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million | 17 | |
| 63431354 | Texas | Aquired 1845 when Texas declared independence from Mexico and entered the Union | 18 | |
| 63431355 | French Declaration of the Rights of Man | French version of the declaration of independence | 19 | |
| 63431356 | National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General, the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. | 20 | |
| 63431357 | King George III | King of England during the American Revolution | 21 | |
| 63431358 | Thomas Edison | Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations | 22 | |
| 63431359 | Enclosure Acts | any of the acts of Parliament passed from 1709 to 1869, requiring that private lands be fenced off from common lands. | 23 | |
| 63431360 | Suffrage | The right to vote | 24 | |
| 63431361 | Karl Marx | founder of modern communism | 25 | |
| 63431362 | proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | 26 | |
| 63431363 | Otto von Bismarck | German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire | 27 | |
| 63431364 | Industrial Revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation | 28 | |
| 63431365 | Britain | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles | 29 | |
| 63431366 | Textiles | fabrics that are woven or knitted; material for clothing | 30 | |
| 63431367 | Cotton Gin | a machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 | 31 | |
| 63431368 | Working Conditions | machine noise could be deafening, poor lighting and ventilation, frequent fires and accidents were caused by fatigue, faulty equipment, and careless training, long hours, child labor was used often | 32 | |
| 63431369 | Factory Owners | Forced workers to work long hours under horrible conditions in shifts for maximum profit | 33 | |
| 63431370 | Labor Unions | Organizations of workers who, together, put pressure on the employers in an industry to improve working conditions and wages. | 34 | |
| 63431371 | Spinning Jenny | an early spinning machine with multiple spindles | 35 | |
| 63431372 | Commodore | a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral | 36 | |
| 63431373 | Matthew Perry | Commodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan with the Treaty of Kanagawa | 37 | |
| 63431374 | Berlin Conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa | 38 | |
| 64427261 | Sepoy Rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. | 39 | |
| 64427262 | Henry Morton Stanley | British journalist and explorer; discovered origin of the Congo River and explored Congo territory of King Leopold II | 40 | |
| 64427263 | Nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 41 | |
| 64427264 | William I of Prussia | Prussian king who became emperor of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. | 42 | |
| 64427265 | Alfred Dreyfus | French army officer of Jewish descent who was convicted of treason | 43 | |
| 64427266 | Zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine | 44 | |
| 64427267 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | 45 | |
| 64427268 | Crimean War | a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia | 46 | |
| 64427269 | Opium Wars | a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking | 47 | |
| 64427270 | Extraterritoriality | Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation. | 48 | |
| 64427271 | Taiping Rebellion | The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. | 49 | |
| 64427272 | Boxer Rebellion | A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country. | 50 | |
| 64427273 | Boers | Dutch settlers in south Africa | 51 | |
| 64427274 | Shaka Zulu | leader of the Zulu people; good military; created Zulu state | 52 | |
| 64427275 | Young Turks | a member of a Turkish reformist and nationalist party that was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and was the dominant political party in Turkey in the period 1908-18 | 53 | |
| 64427276 | Muhammad Ali | Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849) | 54 | |
| 64427277 | David Livingstone | Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) | 55 | |
| 64427278 | Maji-Maji Revolt | a violent African resistance to colonial rule in the German colony of Tanganyika, an uprising by several African indigenous communities in German East Africa against the German rule in response to a German policy designed to force African peoples to grow cotton for export, lasting from 1905 to 1907 | 56 | |
| 64427279 | Nabob | Very wealthy, influential or powerful person | 57 | |
| 64427280 | Sati | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. | 58 | |
| 64427281 | Meiji Restoration | The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism. | 59 | |
| 64427282 | Foot Binding | practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 60 | |
| 64427283 | India | republic in southeast Asia, capital is New Delhi. | 61 | |
| 64427284 | Ottoman Empire | Centered in Constantinople, the Turkish imperial state that conquered large amounts of land in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans, and fell after World War I. | 62 | |
| 64427285 | French Indochina | the French colonies of Cambodia and Laos and Vietnam were formerly organized as French Indochina | 63 | |
| 64427286 | Pogroms | Government supported attacks against Jews in Russia | 64 | |
| 64427287 | Egypt | a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971 | 65 | |
| 64427288 | Germany | a republic in central Europe | 66 | |
| 64427289 | Brazil | the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world | 67 | |
| 64427290 | Haiti | a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola | 68 | |
| 64427291 | France | a republic in western Europe | 69 | |
| 64427292 | Tokugawa | a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603-1867 | 70 | |
| 64427293 | Shogunate | government established by a shogun's family and followers in feudal Japan | 71 | |
| 64427294 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon I. | 72 |
