4024952776 | Tea Act | tax on tea | 0 | |
4024952777 | Boston Tea Party | Boycott where colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor | 1 | |
4024952778 | Continental Congress | Coordinated the colonies resistance to British policies | 2 | |
4024952779 | Declaration of Independence | A document that gave America its independence | 3 | |
4024952780 | George Washington | Military leader who led the war against British forces | 4 | |
4024952781 | Yorktown | Where British forces surrendered | 5 | |
4024952782 | Ancien regime | "The old order" existing society the French she wanted to replace | 6 | |
4024952783 | Estates-general | An assembly that represented the entire French popular through groups called estates | 7 | |
4024952784 | Louis XVI | Unable to raise more revenue from peasantry, increased taxes on French nobility | 8 | |
4024952785 | Marie Antoniette | Queen of France | 9 | |
4024952786 | National Assembly | Representatives from the third estate that were the true representatives for the French people | 10 | |
4024952787 | Bastille | Royal jail that was overtaken by a Parisian crowd | 11 | |
4024952788 | The Convention | legislative body elected by males that abolished monarchy & and proclaimed France a republic | 12 | |
4024952789 | Maximilian Robespierre | Trained lawyer, ruthless political radical for the Jacobin party, known as "the Incorruptible" | 13 | |
4024952790 | The Terror | When Jacobins executed about forty one thousand people & imprisoned three hundred thousand for suspected of enemies of the revolution | 14 | |
4024952791 | Jacobins | Radical party that dominated the Convention | 15 | |
4024952792 | The Directory | Group of conversation men who seized power & ruled France under this new institution | 16 | |
4024952793 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Officer in the army of King Louis XVI, French Republic emperor | 17 | |
4024952794 | Civil Code | A revised body of law, political & legal equality of all adult men | 18 | |
4024952795 | Elba | Island where Napoleon was first sent to & escaped | 19 | |
4024952796 | Waterloo | The location that Napoleon was defeated at | 20 | |
4024952797 | St. Helena | The second island Napoleon was sent to & lived out his days | 21 | |
4024952798 | Boukman | Vodou priest who organized a slave revolt | 22 | |
4024952799 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Built an army then started a constitution that gave equality & citizenship to all residents of Saint-Domingue | 23 | |
4024952800 | Miguel de Hidalgo | Led the most serious peasant rebellion in Mexico | 24 | |
4024952801 | Simon bolivar | Led the movement for independence for Mexico | 25 | |
4024952802 | Jose de San Martin | Creole leader from Argentina who helped Bolivar | 26 | |
4024952803 | Conservatism | Ideology that viewed society as an organism that changed very slowly over the generations | 27 | |
4024952804 | Liberalism | Took change as normal & welcomed it as the agent of progress | 28 | |
4024952805 | Olaudah Equiano | Free slave who wrote about his story | 29 | |
4024952806 | Abolitionism | the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters | 30 | |
4024952807 | Mary Wollstonecraft | British writer who published the influential essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women | 31 | |
4024952808 | A Vindication of the Rights of Women | An influential essay that argued the right of women having an education, occupations, & participation in political life | 32 | |
4024952809 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | An American feminist who built a movement for women's rights | 33 | |
4024952810 | Nationalism | Ideology of being apart of a whole country together instead of divided | 34 | |
4024952811 | Johan Von Herder | Sang praises of the German Volk "people" and their powerful, expressive language | 35 | |
4024952812 | Giuseppe Mazzini | Nationalist activist that formed a group called Young Italy that promoted independence from Austrian and Spanish rule and the establishment of an Italian national state | 36 | |
4024952813 | Anti-semitism | Hostility against Jews | 37 | |
4024952814 | Zionism | A movement founded in the 19th century to establish a Jewish state in Palestine | 38 | |
4024952815 | Congress of Vienna | Conservative political leaders that came together as representatives of the "great powers" that defeated Napoleon | 39 | |
4024952816 | Klemens Von Metternich | Foreign minister of Austria | 40 | |
4024952817 | Camillo di Cavour | Political leader who brought unification to Italy | 41 | |
4024952818 | Giuseppe Garibaldi | A soldier & nationalist who led the unification movement | 42 | |
4024952819 | Otto Von Bismarck | Prime minister of King Wilhelm I who was a master of "realpolitik", the politics of reality | 43 | |
4024952820 | Manifest destiny | Something that many Americans to occupy all of North America from the Alantic and the Pacific ocean | 44 | |
4024952821 | Trail of Tears | The path Native Americans were forced to take to Oklahoma which resulted in thousands of deaths from disease, starvation, and difficulties of relocation | 45 | |
4024952822 | Mexican-American War | The war where America won Texas from Mexico | 46 | |
4024952823 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | United States paid Mexico $15 million for Texas north of the Rio Grande, California, & New Mexico | 47 | |
4024952824 | Abraham Lincoln | Signed the Emancipation Proclamation which was to abolish slavery | 48 | |
4024952825 | U.S. Civil War | The fight between the North & South over slavery | 49 | |
4024952826 | Dominion of Canada | The new independent states of Canada, which are Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, & New Brunswick | 50 | |
4024952827 | Caudillos | Regional military leaders | 51 | |
4024952828 | Antonio Lopez Santa Anna | Caudillo who is was later able to rule | 52 | |
4024952829 | Porfirio Diaz | A dictator who was overthrown in the Mexican Revolution | 53 | |
4024952830 | Emiliano Zapata | Agrarian rebel who became a revolutionary leader who organized massive armies fighting for tierra y liberad (land & liberty), with his partner Francisco Villa | 54 | |
4024952831 | Dawes Severalty Act | The act that allowed Indians to have their own land and gain US citizenship | 55 | |
4024952832 | Louis Riel | Canadian politician who was a métis, lead two resistance movements against the Canadian government | 56 |
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