AP World History Chapter 21 Flashcards
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| 300026346 | Enlightenment | Scientific Revolution methods/questions applied to study of human society. Leaders were John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire to name a few | 0 | |
| 300026347 | Benjamin Franklin | writer, inventor. Publisher writing, public affairs, Continental Congress's ambassador to Paris. | 1 | |
| 300026348 | George Washington | Virginia planter, led revolutionary war, America. | 2 | |
| 300026349 | Joseph Brant | Mohawk loyalist leader. Moved between European and Amerindian cultures.Defeat, move to Canada | 3 | |
| 300026350 | Constitutional Convention | "second" revolution. May 1787, George Washington presided over/ Created executive, legislative, judicial branches of govt. and debated representation, electoral procedures, relationship w/states, executive powers | 4 | |
| 300026351 | Estates General | French national legislature. Called together for the first time in 1788 since 1614. Needed for the king to raise taxes | 5 | |
| 300026352 | National Assembly | Third Estate expanded with priests from First Estate. | 6 | |
| 300026353 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | National Assembly manifest. Liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. Free ideas, equality in law and representative govt. | 7 | |
| 300026354 | Jacobins | National Convention middle class uncompromising democrates. Moderate. | 8 | |
| 300026355 | Maximilien Robespierre | young lawyer on "the Mountain" radicals side. Took over Paris and executed 40,000 in Reign of Terror before own execution | 9 | |
| 300026356 | Napoleon Bonaparte | young general in French army who seized power. Popular with many for reforms (Civil Code of 1804) giving equality in law and protection of property. Empire building led to exile, death | 10 |