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332116708Revenue Act(1764) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations.0
332116709Stamp Act(1765) A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies.1
332116710Tea ActTax on tea; made the east india company the only tea company allowed to colonists; reason for Tea Party (1773).2
332116711Declaration of the Rights of ManA document recognizing the natural rights and ideas of the Enlightenment.3
332116712Committee of Public SafetyAn all-powerful enforcer of the revolution and murderer of anyone suspected of anti-revolutionary tendencies.4
332116713Napoleon BonaparteFrench general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821).5
332116714Napoleon Code(1804) Recognized the equality of French citizens and institutionalized some of the Enlightenment ideas.6
332116715Congress of ViennaMeeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon.7
332116716Jose de San MartinAn American-born Spaniard who served as an officer in the Spanish army.8
332116717Miguel HidalgoLed a revolt against Spanish rule.9
332116718What was one of the consequences of the Napoleonic era?It intensified nationalism, or feelings of connection to one's own home, region, language,and culture.10
332116719What happened during the nineteenth century?Italy and Germany unified.11
332116720Peace of WestphaliaThe peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648.12
332116721Franco-Prussian WarA war, once won, consolidated the German Catholic regions under Prussian control.13
332116722Emancipation EdictThe plan created by Alexander II in 1861 that freed the serfs but eventually had negative effects.14
332116723RussificationThe process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian empire.15
332116724The People's WillA revolutionary group that plotted to kill the czar and assassinated officials. They succeeded in bombing the czar's carriage in March of 1881, killing him.16
332116725Bloody Sunday1905, peaceful protest to czar Nicholas II palace, led by Father Gapon, fired on by palace guards, 100s died.17
332116726DumaRussian national legislature.18
332116727Panama CanalA ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914).19
332116728Spanish-American WarIn 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence.20
332116729Monroe DoctrineAn American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers.21
332116730Otto von BismarckChancellor 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.22
332116731Simon BolivarVenezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.23
332116732Duke of WellingtonLeader of the combined British and Prussian army; would defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.24
332116733WaterlooA final crushing defeat.25
332116734DirectoryGroup of five men who served as liaisons between Robespierre and the Assembly. Overthrown by Napoleon.26

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