vocab quiz on friday
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| 312448794 | Bourgeosie | middle class | 0 | |
| 312448795 | National assembly | members of the third estate, represented at least 96% of the nation, decided to frame a constitution restricting the powers of the king | 1 | |
| 312448796 | Declaration of the rights of man | Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789, similar to our constitution and bill of rights (freedom of speech, men are born equal, etc) | 2 | |
| 312448797 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | The slave who defeated napoleon. new how to read and write, 1803 signed a treaty with Napoleon saying they would recognize Haiti's independence | 3 | |
| 312448798 | Simon Bolivar | (1783-1830) a Venezuelan military leader, After Napoleon named Bonaparte king of Spain's colonies in the New World he joined and eventually led the resistance movement. Under his leadership, the country of Bolivia was created, He united much of South America | 4 | |
| 312448799 | Jose de san Martin | helped lead the revolutions against rtín who Spanish rule in Argentina (1812), Chile (1818), and Peru (1821), educated, began his military career as a cadet in the Murcia infantry regiment. For the next 20 years he was a loyal officer of the Spanish monarch. | 5 | |
| 312448800 | Benito Juarez | helped to institute a series of liberal reforms that were embodied into the new constitution of 1857, refused to accept the rule of the Monarchy or any other foreign nation, and helped to establish Mexico as a constitutional democracy, promoted equal rights for indians. | 6 | |
| 312448801 | congress of vienna | international conference that was called in order to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon, Many territorial decisions had to be made in the conference that was held in Vienna, Austria, The main goal of the conference was to create a balance of power that would preserve the peace. | 7 | |
| 312448802 | nationalism | the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation, viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations. | 8 | |
| 312448803 | adam smith | an enlightened philospher who wrote the wealth of nations in 1776 | 9 | |
| 312448804 | crystal palace | a huge glass and iron structure originally built in 1851, was home to displays, festivals, music shows and over one hundred thousand soldiers during the First World War, | 10 | |
| 312448805 | telegraph | invented my Samuel Morse in 1837 | 11 | |
| 312448806 | railroads | faster way of transportation and communication, spread quickly in the us with urban sprawl, created am economy in the west and boosted the economy in the east (of the US) | 12 | |
| 312448807 | abolitionist | a person who wanted to do away with slavery. In the 1830's abolitionists began to speak out in public | 13 | |
| 312448808 | marx | 1818-1883, philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, German, many countries throughout the 20th century followed his philsophies | 14 | |
| 312448809 | darwin | Charles Darwin is the most famous evolution scientist and often gets credit for the Theory of Evolution (1809-1882) | 15 | |
| 312448810 | immigration | coming to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence. | 16 |
