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| 149040000 | Enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions | 0 | |
| 149040001 | Benjamin Franklin | printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics Ex: he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is | 1 | |
| 149040002 | George Washington | 1st President of the United States Ex: commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799) | 2 | |
| 149040003 | Joseph Brant | Mohawk leader who supported the British during the American Revolution. (p. 581) | 3 | |
| 149040004 | Constitutional Convention | The meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution. | 4 | |
| 149040005 | Estates General | The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime. | 5 | |
| 149040006 | 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. (p. 585) | 6 | |
| 149040007 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. (p. 586) | 7 | |
| 149040008 | Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794. | 8 | |
| 149040009 | Maximilien Robespierre | "The incorruptable;" the leader of the bloodiest portion of the French Revolution. He set out to build a republic of virtue. | 9 | |
| 149040010 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile. | 10 | |
| 149040011 | gens de couleur | Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution. (See also L'Ouverture, Fran?ois Dominique Toussaint.) (p. 593) | 11 | |
| 149040012 | Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Overture | (1743-1803) Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French. | 12 | |
| 149040013 | Congress of Vienna | conservative, reactionary meeting, led by Prince Metternich, restore Europe to Prerevolution time | 13 | |
| 149040014 | Revolutions of 1848 | Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary the revolutions failed. (p. 595) | 14 |
