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| 271157213 | The Spirit of the Laws | Published in 1748 by Montesquie who wanted to compare and talk of the different types of political institutions | 0 | |
| 271157214 | Congress of Vienna | Lasted from 1814-1815. An international conference which congregated in Vienna in order to discuss how they were to reconfigure Europe's territory and to create peace between the great powers after the Napolionic era | 1 | |
| 271157215 | Revolutions of 1848 | Went on from 1848-1852 and was a series of revolutions which stared in France -people wanted universal suffrage- and continued on throughout Italy, Austria- when nationalism increased, riots began-, Prussia and the German confederation -people wanted to make a proposal for a unified Germany with a National Parliament. | 2 | |
| 271157216 | Simon Bolivar | (1783-1830)Also known as "The Liberator". He was the greatest leader of Latin America's independence movement from Spain. He drove the Spanish from the northern areas of South America. | 3 | |
| 271157217 | Estates General | Also known as the French Parliament, was a political organization which was created in the 14th century. Was made up of representatives of all the peoples -clergy, nobility and commoners. They wanted to be the ones who would approve matters of taxation. | 4 | |
| 271157218 | Olympe de Gouges | (1748-1793) Was a French playwright and political activist. she wrote of feminism -fought for women's rights to be equal to the frenchmen's rights-and abolition-about slave's working conditions. | 5 | |
| 271157219 | John Locke | (1632-1704) Also known as the "Father of Liberalism". Was a british philosopher who believed in natural laws. Where people should abide to life, liberty, and property, and if a monarch were to oversee these, people would have the right to argue and debate for a new monarch. | 6 | |
| 271157220 | Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | Married at very young ages, Louis (1754-1793) was king of France at a very young age and he inherited a country in debt with other financial issues, which he discussed on his first trip to the Estates General in 1792. Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) was a woman who couldn't seem to bear any sons for Louis and she went out partying and going to social events a lot, and there were rumors of her with many alleged lovers and of out of control spending which just increased with time. Eventually, the people's saw through the couple and what the WEREN'T doing for their country, so they were executed together. | 7 | |
| 271157221 | Maximilien Robespierre | (1758-1794)Also known as "Incorruptable", he was of Irish origin, but was born in France. He was elected the Estates General in 1789 and was on the extreme left wing. He was an activist for libertarians, though he killed thousands of people just because they thought differently than him and that they still believed in the monarchial system, so he was sent to the guillotine. | 8 | |
| 271157222 | Napoleon Bonaparte | (1769-1821) Was a military commander in the French revolution, he drove the Royal Navy out of Toulon and defended the Directory against the Royalist counter-revolutionaries with "Whiff of Grapeshot". | 9 | |
| 271157223 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | A very important document which defined all rights of all estates adopted by the French National Assembly. A famous quote: "men are born and remain free and equal in rights". | 10 | |
| 271157224 | Ancien Regime | Was used in France as a form of government during the French Revolution and it radicalized many participants in the National Assembly. | 11 | |
| 271157225 | National Assembly | Representatives of the 3rd estate which who organized themselves as this in 1789, and claimed the complete authority to make laws for their country. | 12 | |
| 271157226 | Jacobins | A politcal club formed in 1789 by Breton deputies, the name derives from the monastary of Jacobins where the members met. The purpose of the club was to be active politically and to secure thier support of other events outside of the Assembly. | 13 | |
| 271157227 | Directory | A body of 5 directories who held executive power in France. Was a system of government. Two eras were the 1st directory and 2nd directory. | 14 | |
| 271157228 | Civil Code | Was introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte at the beginning of the 19th century. A document which talked of a unified, logical system based on general principles of law. | 15 |
