chapters 19, 20 and 21
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| French military officer who served with George Washington in the American WAr for Independence and returned home with republican ideals. | ||
| an attempt to curtail the sale of military offices to members of the rising French middle class in order to prevent the noblility from growing. | ||
| the French middle class, which in the eighteenth century was growing in economic worth but not in political power | ||
| the name the Third Estate assumbed after taking the Tennis Court Oath not to adjourn until it had given France a constitution | ||
| the "prison" in central Paris taken and "liberated" by a mob on July 14, 1789, signaling the beginning of the popular phase of the French Revolution | ||
| first symbol of oppression and later of freedom | ||
| the governing body of France during the radical phase of the revolution, the members precipitated the reign of terror | ||
| the name given to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, signifying that France had been dechristianized | ||
| the Civil Code of the Emperor Napoleon, who granted to France and its empire many of the rights demanded by the French revolutionaries | ||
| liquid assets which can readily be moved from place to place and invested in new forms of enterprise | ||
| inventor of the power loom, which increased the production of cloth and precipitated the British industrial revolution | ||
| thr first locomotive used on the first public railway line, invented by George Sterphenson and in full operation by the 1830s | ||
| the first "world's fair," held in Kensington in 1851 to demonstrate the industrial might and superiority of Great Britain | ||
| the human tragedy in Ireland when in 1845 the potato crop failed and over a million people starved | ||
| secretary of the British Poor Law Commission who headed a study of living conditions in urban slums | ||
| factory owners and utopian reformer who created cooperative rather than competitive working communities | ||
| skilled craftsmen of the British midlands who physically attacked the machines they frelt were taking away their jobs | ||
| the British movement that petitioned Prliament in the 1840s to grant universal male suffrage and the elimination of property qualifications for Parliamentary membership | ||
| Their restoration fulfilled Metternich's principle of legitimacy | ||
| Spokesman for evolutionary conservatism | ||
| Party that attracted moneyed industrial groups | ||
| Argued that population growth mitigated against human progress | ||
| Argued that wages rise only as population declines | ||
| Advocated cooperative socialism to solve economic problems | ||
| Resulted in the overthrow of Charles X | ||
| Resulted in the overthrow of Louis-Philippe | ||
| Created London's Metropolitan Police Force | ||
| Romantic artist with passion for color and exotic themes | ||
| most famous Romantic composer, who broke with classical forms to adopt uncontrolled rhythms, dramatic struggles, and uplifted resolutions | ||
| the early nineteenth century's cultural challenge to the Enlightenment's preoccupation with reason, shifting the emphasis to emotion | ||
| founder of Young Italy and intellectual guide to the movement toward nationalism in the Italian states |