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| 7600845002 | Principles of the Enlightenment | (1) Governments of the people. (3) The "natural rights" of individuals (including the right to self government) (4) The progressive improvement of society. | 0 | |
| 7600845007 | American Declaration of Independence | Embodied the ideas of John Locke and justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of revolution. "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." | 1 | |
| 7600845008 | The Estates General | The first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate). Summoned by King Louis XVI to propose solutions to his government's financial problems, the Estates-General sat for several weeks in May and June 1789 but came to an impasse over the first item on the agenda: whether they should vote by estate, giving the first two estates an advantage, which was the King's choice, or vote all together, giving the Third Estate the advantage. It was brought to an end when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, inviting the other two to join, against the wishes of the King, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution. |  | 2 |
| 7600845009 | Storming of the Bastille | The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. Signified the the official start of fighting for French Revolution. | 3 | |
| 7600845010 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | French declaration of independence | 4 | |
| 7600845011 | The Reign of Terror (French Revolution) | s a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in executions across France. The guillotine became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité (Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans), lost their lives under its blade. Robespierre played an important role in leading the terror. | 5 | |
| 7600845012 | Napoleon's reforms | the introduction of the Napoleonic Code throughout the continent increased legal equality, established jury systems and legalized divorce, and seigneurial dues and seigneurial justice were abolished, as were aristocratic privileges in almost all places | 6 | |
| 7600845016 | First Industrial Revolution | time period that led to the growth of industries, such as coal, iron, railroads and textiles, | 7 | |
| 7600845017 | Second Industrial Revolution (features) | the Second Industrial Revolution witnessed the expansion of electricity, petroleum and steel. | 8 | |
| 7600845021 | Problems of Urbanization (industrial revolution) | Problems created by urbanization include, increased crime rates, poverty, deforestation, and the formation of slums (considered to be one of the worst effects of urbanization). -Class divide -Decline in standard of living -Change in family structure -Catalyst for socialist revolution | 9 | |
| 7600845023 | Conservatism (key ideas) | Conservatism (or conservativism) is any political philosophy that favours tradition (in the sense of various religious, cultural, or nationally-defined beliefs and customs) in the face of external forces for change, and is critical of proposals for radical social change. Pragmatism, libertarianism, human imperfection, property, hierarchy, authority, organic, family & nation, tradition. | 10 | |
| 7600845024 | Liberalism (key ideas) | Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. Liberalism espouses a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, and can encompass ideas such as free and fair elections, free trade, private property, capitalism, constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free press, and the free exercise of religion. | 11 | |
| 7600845025 | Marxism/ Communism (key ideas) | It views economics as the primary motivating and guiding factor for people and governments. The focus on private property creates a class system between wealthy and poor groups, always generating conflict. They believed in using violence to force equality | 12 | |
| 7600845026 | Nationalism (key ideas) | Extreme pride and devotion to your country and your cultural heritage. It leads to the unification of common nationalities (like Italy and Germany) into countries and the division of multinational empires | 13 | |
| 7600845031 | Berlin Conference (1884) | a meeting between European nations to create rules on how to peacefully divide Africa among them for colonization. | 14 | |
| 7600845033 | The Meiji Restoration | restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under the Japanese Emperor . The This was significant because it shifted political power from the shogun to the emperor, a shift which helped Japan modernize swiftly. This swift modernization allowed Japan to become an economic and military rival of the Western colonial powers. | 15 | |
| 7600845036 | The Schlieffen Plan | the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilize her forces near the German border. The execution of this plan led to Britain declaring war on Germany on August 4th, 1914. | 16 | |
| 7600969981 | Impact of the scientific revolution | Enlightenment | 17 | |
| 7600980156 | Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau all agree that | governments should be people-centered | 18 | |
| 7600986685 | how did Enlightenment promote revolution in the colonies | inspired revolution by giving people new ideas about government | 19 | |
| 7600997224 | Causes of the French Revolution | Age of Enlightenment, influence of the American Revolution, ineffective leadership in France, Economic problems , Inequality | 20 | |
| 7601012823 | Outcomes of the French Revolution | Monarchy is abolished | 21 | |
| 7601023365 | Napoleon's reign ended and power of the monarchs was restored by the | Congress of Vienna | 22 | |
| 7601027361 | Principles of the congress of vienna | legitimacy, balance of power, making France pay reparations | 23 | |
| 7601039145 | Why did the Industrial revolution start in England | They had resources, entrepreneurs, money to invest in the start of business, a large labor force | 24 | |
| 7601051032 | Causes of the industrial revolution | agricultural revolution. population explosion, new technology | 25 | |
| 7601062764 | How did the agricultural revolution lead to industrialization | caused the population to grow and freed up farm workers to move to the cities for jobs, proving labor for the factories | 26 | |
| 7601068891 | effects of industrialization | urbanization, growth of corporations, growth of communism and socialism | 27 | |
| 7601079480 | Germ theory led to | cleanliness, cleaning up urban pollution, population growth | 28 | |
| 7601087087 | Reactions to industrialization | rise of communism, socialism, reform movements | 29 | |
| 7601096864 | what was the role of capitalism in the industrial revolution | its the dominant economic system of that time | 30 | |
| 7601103742 | the ultimate goal of communism and socialism | equality | 31 | |
| 7601111655 | why were wages so low during industrialization | unskilled labor | 32 | |
| 7601115355 | why did workers organize into labor unions? | improve working conditions, get higher wages | 33 | |
| 7601120018 | Social impacts of the industrial era | improved education, laws that improved worker's lives, increased demands for women's suffrage | 34 | |
| 7601131925 | What drove imperialism? | need for raw materials and markets for products, ideological ideas about others, the desire to westernize and Christianize nations throughout the world | 35 | |
| 7601141979 | Japan | this nation became an imperialist power after they modernized and westernized in less than 50 years | 36 | |
| 7601153034 | how did colonized people respond to imperialism? | Many resisted but some, such as Ethiopia, modernized and westernized | 37 | |
| 7601160464 | WWI | War to end all wars | 38 | |
| 7601164694 | An example of how nationalism caused WWI | Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 39 | |
| 7601172658 | How did imperialism cause WWI | Competition for colonies was causing conflict | 40 |
