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4024952776Tea Acttax on tea0
4024952777Boston Tea PartyBoycott where colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor1
4024952778Continental CongressCoordinated the colonies resistance to British policies2
4024952779Declaration of IndependenceA document that gave America its independence3
4024952780George WashingtonMilitary leader who led the war against British forces4
4024952781YorktownWhere British forces surrendered5
4024952782Ancien regime"The old order" existing society the French she wanted to replace6
4024952783Estates-generalAn assembly that represented the entire French popular through groups called estates7
4024952784Louis XVIUnable to raise more revenue from peasantry, increased taxes on French nobility8
4024952785Marie AntonietteQueen of France9
4024952786National AssemblyRepresentatives from the third estate that were the true representatives for the French people10
4024952787BastilleRoyal jail that was overtaken by a Parisian crowd11
4024952788The Conventionlegislative body elected by males that abolished monarchy & and proclaimed France a republic12
4024952789Maximilian RobespierreTrained lawyer, ruthless political radical for the Jacobin party, known as "the Incorruptible"13
4024952790The TerrorWhen Jacobins executed about forty one thousand people & imprisoned three hundred thousand for suspected of enemies of the revolution14
4024952791JacobinsRadical party that dominated the Convention15
4024952792The DirectoryGroup of conversation men who seized power & ruled France under this new institution16
4024952793Napoleon BonaparteOfficer in the army of King Louis XVI, French Republic emperor17
4024952794Civil CodeA revised body of law, political & legal equality of all adult men18
4024952795ElbaIsland where Napoleon was first sent to & escaped19
4024952796WaterlooThe location that Napoleon was defeated at20
4024952797St. HelenaThe second island Napoleon was sent to & lived out his days21
4024952798BoukmanVodou priest who organized a slave revolt22
4024952799Toussaint L'OuvertureBuilt an army then started a constitution that gave equality & citizenship to all residents of Saint-Domingue23
4024952800Miguel de HidalgoLed the most serious peasant rebellion in Mexico24
4024952801Simon bolivarLed the movement for independence for Mexico25
4024952802Jose de San MartinCreole leader from Argentina who helped Bolivar26
4024952803ConservatismIdeology that viewed society as an organism that changed very slowly over the generations27
4024952804LiberalismTook change as normal & welcomed it as the agent of progress28
4024952805Olaudah EquianoFree slave who wrote about his story29
4024952806Abolitionismthe acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters30
4024952807Mary WollstonecraftBritish writer who published the influential essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women31
4024952808A Vindication of the Rights of WomenAn influential essay that argued the right of women having an education, occupations, & participation in political life32
4024952809Elizabeth Cady StantonAn American feminist who built a movement for women's rights33
4024952810NationalismIdeology of being apart of a whole country together instead of divided34
4024952811Johan Von HerderSang praises of the German Volk "people" and their powerful, expressive language35
4024952812Giuseppe MazziniNationalist activist that formed a group called Young Italy that promoted independence from Austrian and Spanish rule and the establishment of an Italian national state36
4024952813Anti-semitismHostility against Jews37
4024952814ZionismA movement founded in the 19th century to establish a Jewish state in Palestine38
4024952815Congress of ViennaConservative political leaders that came together as representatives of the "great powers" that defeated Napoleon39
4024952816Klemens Von MetternichForeign minister of Austria40
4024952817Camillo di CavourPolitical leader who brought unification to Italy41
4024952818Giuseppe GaribaldiA soldier & nationalist who led the unification movement42
4024952819Otto Von BismarckPrime minister of King Wilhelm I who was a master of "realpolitik", the politics of reality43
4024952820Manifest destinySomething that many Americans to occupy all of North America from the Alantic and the Pacific ocean44
4024952821Trail of TearsThe path Native Americans were forced to take to Oklahoma which resulted in thousands of deaths from disease, starvation, and difficulties of relocation45
4024952822Mexican-American WarThe war where America won Texas from Mexico46
4024952823Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoUnited States paid Mexico $15 million for Texas north of the Rio Grande, California, & New Mexico47
4024952824Abraham LincolnSigned the Emancipation Proclamation which was to abolish slavery48
4024952825U.S. Civil WarThe fight between the North & South over slavery49
4024952826Dominion of CanadaThe new independent states of Canada, which are Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, & New Brunswick50
4024952827CaudillosRegional military leaders51
4024952828Antonio Lopez Santa AnnaCaudillo who is was later able to rule52
4024952829Porfirio DiazA dictator who was overthrown in the Mexican Revolution53
4024952830Emiliano ZapataAgrarian rebel who became a revolutionary leader who organized massive armies fighting for tierra y liberad (land & liberty), with his partner Francisco Villa54
4024952831Dawes Severalty ActThe act that allowed Indians to have their own land and gain US citizenship55
4024952832Louis RielCanadian politician who was a métis, lead two resistance movements against the Canadian government56

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