AP World History Revolutions Flashcards

9577466292	Enlightenment	an intellectual movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century. The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and came to advance ideals such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state	0
9577466295	Declaration of Independence	July 4, 1776; the document that America used to claim its independence from Britain while still at war; listed enlightenment ideas and what the colonies wanted from their independence versus what they had	1
9577466296	Thomas Jefferson	wrote the draft of the declaration of independence; founding father and third president	2
9577466297	George Washington	military leader during the Revolution and became the first president of the United States, which set precedents for the future of america	3
9577466300	Constituiton	written by the founding fathers when US was granted its freedom; serves as the national laws and as the framework for the country	4
9577466301	Bill of Rights	the name of the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution; written to protect the rights of every American citizen	5
9577466302	American Revolution	war that took place in the united states that forced Britain to give the US independence and the right to stop being a colony; inspired other countries to rebel against monarchies and being colonies	6
9577466303	ancien regime	the monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the latter part of the 18th century	7
9577466304	estates general	the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm; king called meeting to ask for help with debt and taxes; in the end the third estate called its own meeting which signaled the start of the french revolution	8
9577466305	tennis court oath	third estate took the tennis court oath to promise to band together and fight against the monarchy	9
9577466306	storming of the bastille	paris; lots of people were angry so they went into this big artillery shin dig and stole all the weapons; symbolized the revolution and the cruelty of the monarchy	10
9577466307	declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen	fundamental document of the french revolution; cited natural right and the equality between all people in france	11
9577466308	reign of terror	period in france when executions of the enemies of the rebellion were killed; robespierre led revolution which created a lot of violence and bloodshed	12
9577466310	Robespierre	a french lawyer and politician that ruled led the reign of terror after the revolution was somewhat successful and executed enemies of the revolution	13
9577466311	maroon societies	african people who escaped american slavery and formed settlements independently	14
9577466313	saint domingue	French colony in the Caribbean where the slaves began to overthrow the French authority	15
9577466314	sugar plantations	sugar was the main crop from the Caribbea which helped build the slave game in the area	16
9577466315	Toussaint Louverture	leader of the Haitian revolution; first fought for spain against france, and then for france against spain and britain and then against napolean to abolish slavery in present day haiti	17
9577466316	napolean	a general that rose to lead france through his military prowess; reigned after reign of terror, and at first provided fair government but became greedy and spread too far; haitian revolution beat napolean's troops; defeated in a small country between italy and spain and was exiled	18
9577466317	haitian independence	Louverture led slaves through a brutal rebellion until another leader claimed the island to be Haiti, an independent country with slavery abolished within it	19
9577466319	peninsular	spanish born spaniard	20
9577466320	creole	white european in latin america	21
9577466321	peninsular war	a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars	22
9577466322	simon bolivar	el libertador; created gran colombia; letter from jamaica; exiled from venezuela; created bolivia; dictator of peru; wanted latin america to have an english style parliament	23
9577466327	grito de delores	the beginning of the mexican war for independence (think shot heard around the world)	24