Review Questions for 1750-1914 era
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
1750-1914 [9]
1750-1914 Review
• Political Philosophy of the Enlightenment:
-challenged regimes that did not grant full religious freedom or that insisted on aristocratic privilege
• Causes of American Revolution:
-“taxation without representation”
-restriction on free movement into frontier areas
• American Rev. Dates
-1765: Stamp Act
-1775-1783: American Rev.
-1776- Declaration of Independence signed (?)
• Causes of French Rev.
-French govt. debt
-social inequality
-Enlightenment ideas
• ID SIG: Bastille
-Political prison.
-Parisians attacked itFrench Rev.
-symbol of French Rev
• Final phases of French Rev
-Victory of Napolean Bonaparte (1799)
• Conference @ Vienna
-territorial adjustments
-returned monarchy to France
• Steam Engine:
-Inventor- James Watt