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| 64349502 | Bourgeoisie | educated, middle class of France; provided force behind the Revolution | 0 | |
| 64349503 | Estates- General | The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime. | 1 | |
| 64349504 | Bastille | The political prison and armory stormed on July 14, 1789, by Partisian city workers alarmed by the king's concentration of troops at Versailles | 2 | |
| 64349505 | Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794. | 3 | |
| 64349506 | The Terror | the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed | 4 | |
| 64349507 | Napoleon | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) | 5 | |
| 64349508 | Vodoun (voodun) | a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti) | 6 | |
| 64349509 | Toussaint L'ouverture | was an important leader of the Haïtian Revolution and the first leader of a free Haiti. In a long struggle again the institution of slavery, he led the blacks to victory over the whites and free coloreds and secured native control over the colony in 1797, calling himself a dictator. | 7 | |
| 64349510 | Simon Bolivar | 1783-1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule. | 8 | |
| 64349511 | Miguel Hidalgo | Mexican priest who led peasants in call for independence and improved conditions | 9 | |
| 64349512 | US bill of Rights | first ten amendments to the constitution that explain some civil rights for citizens of America | 10 | |
| 64349513 | Manifest Destiny | a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God) | 11 | |
| 64349514 | Abolition | the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | 12 | |
| 64349515 | Gadsen Purchase | strip of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico for which the United States paid Mexico $10 million in 1853. | 13 | |
| 64349516 | Louisiana Purchase | territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million | 14 | |
| 64349517 | Declaration of the right of man | natural rights, religion, speech, property | 15 | |
| 64349518 | 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. | 16 | |
| 64349519 | King George III | king of England during the Revolutionary War | 17 | |
| 64349520 | Thomas Edison | American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. | 18 | |
| 64349521 | Karl Marx | German journalist and philosopher, founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III, 1867-1894). (p. 709) | 19 | |
| 64349522 | Proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | 20 | |
| 64349523 | Industrial Revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation, the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850. | 21 | |
| 64349524 | Britain | country besides the United States that had the strongest claims to the Oregon Territory | 22 | |
| 64349525 | Textiles | fabrics that are woven or knitted; material for clothing | 23 | |
| 64349526 | cotton gin | a machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 | 24 | |
| 64349527 | Working Conditions | machine noise could be deafening, poor lighting and ventilation, frequent fires and accidents were caused by fatigue, faulty equipment, and careless training | 25 | |
| 64349528 | Factory owners | led factory system, controled all aspects of workers' lives | 26 | |
| 64349529 | Labor unions | Organizations of workers who, together, put pressure on the employers in an industry to improve working conditions and wages. | 27 | |
| 64349530 | Spinning Jenny | A machine that could spin several threads at once | 28 | |
| 64349531 | Commodore | a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral | 29 | |
| 64349532 | Matthew Perry | Commodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan with the Treaty of Kanagawa | 30 |
