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322837193Age of revolutionA period of political upheaval beginning roughly with the American revolution in 1775 and continuing through the French revolution in 1789.0
322837194Population RevolutionA notable increase in most European populations (after 1730). As people better policed disease carrying animals, ate more nursing foods such as the potato both children and adults lived longer.1
322837195Proto-industrializationThe production of textiles and metals by full or part-time merchants working from home. Ex. a cooper, a shoemaker. Ultimately this encouraged new technologies in America to expand production.2
322837196Stamp ActIn 1765 the British began taxing documents and pamphlets in American colonies.3
322837197Louis XVIThe King of France at the beginning of the French revolution.4
322837198Declaration of the Rights of Man and the citizenFrench equivalent to the declaration of independence.5
322837199Riot of BastilleRiot on a French prison; Signaled the beginning of the revolution.6
322837200GuillotineA device introduced by enlightened French thinkers to provide a more humane form of execution. It later became a symbols or revolutionary bloodthirst.7
322837201Maximilien Robes pierre(1758-1794) Leader of the radical party. Ironically he later met death by guillotine.8
324723773NationalismLove of country and willingness to sacrifice for it. These ties were important during the revolution because loyalty to ones country came to replace loyalty to religion.9
324723774Napoleon BonaparteFrench general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) Fixated on expanding France and French rule.10
324723775Congress of ViennaMeeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon11
324723776ConservativesThose against revolutionary goals12
324723777LiberalsSought economic reform including better education and the promotion of industry.13
324723778RadicalsAccepted all demands being made by the liberals but also wanted more voting rights.14
324723779Greek revolutionRebellion in Greece against the Ottoman Empire in 1820; key step in gradually dismantling the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.15
324723780Chartist movementAttempt by artisans and workers in Britain to gain the vote during the 1840s; demands for reform beyond the Reform Act of 1832 were incorporated into a series of petitions; movement failed.16
324723781Louis PasteurFrench chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)17
324723782Benjamin DisraeliGranted working glass men n Britain the right to vote (1867)18
324723783Camillio Di CavourItalian member of parliament who extended parliaments powers to the common man19
324723784Otto Von BismarkThe Prime minister of Prussia who gave all men the right to vote.20

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