World History AP Flashcards

4024952776	Tea Act	tax on tea	0
4024952777	Boston Tea Party	Boycott where colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor	1
4024952778	Continental Congress	Coordinated the colonies resistance to British policies	2
4024952779	Declaration of Independence	A document that gave America its independence	3
4024952780	George Washington	Military leader who led the war against British forces	4
4024952781	Yorktown	Where British forces surrendered	5
4024952782	Ancien regime	"The old order" existing society the French she wanted to replace	6
4024952783	Estates-general	An assembly that represented the entire French popular through groups called estates	7
4024952784	Louis XVI	Unable to raise more revenue from peasantry, increased taxes on French nobility	8
4024952785	Marie Antoniette	Queen of France	9
4024952786	National Assembly	Representatives from the third estate that were the true representatives for the French people	10
4024952787	Bastille	Royal jail that was overtaken by a Parisian crowd	11
4024952788	The Convention	legislative body elected by males that abolished monarchy & and proclaimed France a republic	12
4024952789	Maximilian Robespierre	Trained lawyer, ruthless political radical for the Jacobin party, known as "the Incorruptible"	13
4024952790	The Terror	When Jacobins executed about forty one thousand people & imprisoned three hundred thousand for suspected of enemies of the revolution	14
4024952791	Jacobins	Radical party that dominated the Convention	15
4024952792	The Directory	Group of conversation men who seized power & ruled France under this new institution	16
4024952793	Napoleon Bonaparte	Officer in the army of King Louis XVI, French Republic emperor	17
4024952794	Civil Code	A revised body of law, political & legal equality of all adult men	18
4024952795	Elba	Island where Napoleon was first sent to & escaped	19
4024952796	Waterloo	The location that Napoleon was defeated at	20
4024952797	St. Helena	The second island Napoleon was sent to & lived out his days	21
4024952798	Boukman	Vodou priest who organized a slave revolt	22
4024952799	Toussaint L'Ouverture	Built an army then started a constitution that gave equality & citizenship to all residents of Saint-Domingue	23
4024952800	Miguel de Hidalgo	Led the most serious peasant rebellion in Mexico	24
4024952801	Simon bolivar	Led the movement for independence for Mexico	25
4024952802	Jose de San Martin	Creole leader from Argentina who helped Bolivar	26
4024952803	Conservatism	Ideology that viewed society as an organism that changed very slowly over the generations	27
4024952804	Liberalism	Took change as normal & welcomed it as the agent of progress	28
4024952805	Olaudah Equiano	Free slave who wrote about his story	29
4024952806	Abolitionism	the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters	30
4024952807	Mary Wollstonecraft	British writer who published the influential essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women	31
4024952808	A Vindication of the Rights of Women	An influential essay that argued the right of women having an education, occupations, & participation in political life	32
4024952809	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	An American feminist who built a movement for women's rights	33
4024952810	Nationalism	Ideology of being apart of a whole country together instead of divided	34
4024952811	Johan Von Herder	Sang praises of the German Volk "people" and their powerful, expressive language	35
4024952812	Giuseppe Mazzini	Nationalist activist that formed a group called Young Italy that promoted independence from Austrian and Spanish rule and the establishment of an Italian national state	36
4024952813	Anti-semitism	Hostility against Jews	37
4024952814	Zionism	A movement founded in the 19th century to establish a Jewish state in Palestine	38
4024952815	Congress of Vienna	Conservative political leaders that came together as representatives of the "great powers" that defeated Napoleon	39
4024952816	Klemens Von Metternich	Foreign minister of Austria	40
4024952817	Camillo di Cavour	Political leader who brought unification to Italy	41
4024952818	Giuseppe Garibaldi	A soldier & nationalist who led the unification movement	42
4024952819	Otto Von Bismarck	Prime minister of King Wilhelm I who was a master of "realpolitik", the politics of reality	43
4024952820	Manifest destiny	Something that many Americans to occupy all of North America from the Alantic and the Pacific ocean	44
4024952821	Trail of Tears	The path Native Americans were forced to take to Oklahoma which resulted in thousands of deaths from disease, starvation, and difficulties of relocation	45
4024952822	Mexican-American War	The war where America won Texas from Mexico	46
4024952823	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	United States paid Mexico $15 million for Texas north of the Rio Grande, California, & New Mexico	47
4024952824	Abraham Lincoln	Signed the Emancipation Proclamation which was to abolish slavery	48
4024952825	U.S. Civil War	The fight between the North & South over slavery	49
4024952826	Dominion of Canada	The new independent states of Canada, which are Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, & New Brunswick	50
4024952827	Caudillos	Regional military leaders	51
4024952828	Antonio Lopez Santa Anna	Caudillo who is was later able to rule	52
4024952829	Porfirio Diaz	A dictator who was overthrown in the Mexican Revolution	53
4024952830	Emiliano Zapata	Agrarian rebel who became a revolutionary leader who organized massive armies fighting for tierra y liberad (land & liberty), with his partner Francisco Villa	54
4024952831	Dawes Severalty Act	The act that allowed Indians to have their own land and gain US citizenship	55
4024952832	Louis Riel	Canadian politician who was a métis, lead two resistance movements against the Canadian government	56