322837193 | Age of revolution | A period of political upheaval beginning roughly with the American revolution in 1775 and continuing through the French revolution in 1789. | 0 | |
322837194 | Population Revolution | A 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 | |
322837195 | Proto-industrialization | The 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 | |
322837196 | Stamp Act | In 1765 the British began taxing documents and pamphlets in American colonies. | 3 | |
322837197 | Louis XVI | The King of France at the beginning of the French revolution. | 4 | |
322837198 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the citizen | French equivalent to the declaration of independence. | 5 | |
322837199 | Riot of Bastille | Riot on a French prison; Signaled the beginning of the revolution. | 6 | |
322837200 | Guillotine | A device introduced by enlightened French thinkers to provide a more humane form of execution. It later became a symbols or revolutionary bloodthirst. | 7 | |
322837201 | Maximilien Robes pierre | (1758-1794) Leader of the radical party. Ironically he later met death by guillotine. | 8 | |
324723773 | Nationalism | Love 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 | |
324723774 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) Fixated on expanding France and French rule. | 10 | |
324723775 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon | 11 | |
324723776 | Conservatives | Those against revolutionary goals | 12 | |
324723777 | Liberals | Sought economic reform including better education and the promotion of industry. | 13 | |
324723778 | Radicals | Accepted all demands being made by the liberals but also wanted more voting rights. | 14 | |
324723779 | Greek revolution | Rebellion in Greece against the Ottoman Empire in 1820; key step in gradually dismantling the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. | 15 | |
324723780 | Chartist movement | Attempt 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 | |
324723781 | Louis Pasteur | French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895) | 17 | |
324723782 | Benjamin Disraeli | Granted working glass men n Britain the right to vote (1867) | 18 | |
324723783 | Camillio Di Cavour | Italian member of parliament who extended parliaments powers to the common man | 19 | |
324723784 | Otto Von Bismark | The Prime minister of Prussia who gave all men the right to vote. | 20 |
French and American revolution I Flashcards
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