332116708 | Revenue Act | (1764) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations. | 0 | |
332116709 | Stamp Act | (1765) A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies. | 1 | |
332116710 | Tea Act | Tax on tea; made the east india company the only tea company allowed to colonists; reason for Tea Party (1773). | 2 | |
332116711 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | A document recognizing the natural rights and ideas of the Enlightenment. | 3 | |
332116712 | Committee of Public Safety | An all-powerful enforcer of the revolution and murderer of anyone suspected of anti-revolutionary tendencies. | 4 | |
332116713 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821). | 5 | |
332116714 | Napoleon Code | (1804) Recognized the equality of French citizens and institutionalized some of the Enlightenment ideas. | 6 | |
332116715 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon. | 7 | |
332116716 | Jose de San Martin | An American-born Spaniard who served as an officer in the Spanish army. | 8 | |
332116717 | Miguel Hidalgo | Led a revolt against Spanish rule. | 9 | |
332116718 | What was one of the consequences of the Napoleonic era? | It intensified nationalism, or feelings of connection to one's own home, region, language,and culture. | 10 | |
332116719 | What happened during the nineteenth century? | Italy and Germany unified. | 11 | |
332116720 | Peace of Westphalia | The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648. | 12 | |
332116721 | Franco-Prussian War | A war, once won, consolidated the German Catholic regions under Prussian control. | 13 | |
332116722 | Emancipation Edict | The plan created by Alexander II in 1861 that freed the serfs but eventually had negative effects. | 14 | |
332116723 | Russification | The process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian empire. | 15 | |
332116724 | The People's Will | A revolutionary group that plotted to kill the czar and assassinated officials. They succeeded in bombing the czar's carriage in March of 1881, killing him. | 16 | |
332116725 | Bloody Sunday | 1905, peaceful protest to czar Nicholas II palace, led by Father Gapon, fired on by palace guards, 100s died. | 17 | |
332116726 | Duma | Russian national legislature. | 18 | |
332116727 | Panama Canal | A ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914). | 19 | |
332116728 | Spanish-American War | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence. | 20 | |
332116729 | Monroe Doctrine | An American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers. | 21 | |
332116730 | Otto von Bismarck | Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871, when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist, he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire. | 22 | |
332116731 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule. | 23 | |
332116732 | Duke of Wellington | Leader of the combined British and Prussian army; would defeat Napoleon at Waterloo. | 24 | |
332116733 | Waterloo | A final crushing defeat. | 25 | |
332116734 | Directory | Group of five men who served as liaisons between Robespierre and the Assembly. Overthrown by Napoleon. | 26 |
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