AP WORLD HISTORY Flashcards
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| 13578745176 | Age of revolution: why it matters | 18th century saw rise and diffusion of revolutionary political ideas, based off the enlightenment and views on what rights man had against monarch. Inspired by scientific revolution ideas. Discontent with imperial rule. America, France, Haiti, Latin | 0 | |
| 13578745177 | Imperialism | Effects of expanding global trade on overseas colonies resulted in rebellions. USA and Haiti, India and China | 1 | |
| 13578745178 | Age of revolution: enlightenment, nationalism and revolutions: Enlightenment would grow out of which two movements? | Scientific revolution and humanism renaissance | 2 | |
| 13578745179 | Scientific Revolution brought about which thinkers? | Galileo, Newton, Copernicus | 3 | |
| 13578745180 | Philosophers admired newton why? | Used reason to explain the laws governing nature. Influenced people to look at different laws, went beyond science | 4 | |
| 13578745181 | Ideas of the scientific revolution paved the way for what? | Enlightenment; mid 1700 | 5 | |
| 13578745182 | Brought from two thinkers? | Hobbs and Locke( 1600s); polar opposite | 6 | |
| 13578745183 | Hobbs: creates the first what? | Leviathan; after civil war believed all humans were bad | 7 | |
| 13578745184 | Without government Hobbs believed what? | There would be a war of every man against every man and the world would be horrible | 8 | |
| 13578745185 | Social Contract | To escape a bleak life by giving up your rights to a strong ruler in exchange for law and order. People needed to be governed completely, absolute monarch | 9 | |
| 13578745186 | Locke: believed people could? | Learn and improve | 10 | |
| 13578745187 | Favored what idea? | Criticized absolute monarch wanted self government | 11 | |
| 13578745188 | All people are born? | Equal, with life liberty and property | 12 | |
| 13578745189 | Purpose of government? | To protect rights, if not done the people can overthrow the leader | 13 | |
| 13578745190 | Emphases on how society needs to promote what? | Education | 14 | |
| 13578745191 | Emergence of philosophes: new group of people called philosophy's were what? | Intellectual thinkers | 15 | |
| 13578745192 | What did they study, philosophers? | Social, political, and economic theories | 16 | |
| 13578745193 | Who was the biggest philosopher? | Voltaire, used satire against the clergy, aristocratic, government | 17 | |
| 13578745194 | New economic thinking: physiocratic claimed that their rational exinomic system was based on? | Natural law of economics | 18 | |
| 13578745195 | Rejected what and what did it do? | Mercantilism, required government regulation of economy | 19 | |
| 13578745196 | Laissez-faire | Allowing businesses to operate with little or no government | 20 | |
| 13578745197 | New religious thinking: deism | Based among intellectuals to establish the relationship of humans to god. God created the world but just say back. Thomas pain was famous | 21 | |
| 13578745198 | Stages of Revolution | 1: citizens became dissatisfied with the government 2. Moderates took over and caused terror 3. Radicals came in and took over 4. For a time there was peace Thermidorian reaction | 22 | |
| 13578745199 | American Revolution | European ideology of enlightenment, people needed representatives, manga carta, economic ideas no laissez faire. Mercantilism, economic system to increase a nations wealth by governments regulating all of the nations commercial interest | 23 | |
| 13578745200 | French Revolution | Inspired by the American revolution. Wanted equal representation, economic hardship, English law, inspired by enlightenment, individualism | 24 | |
| 13578745201 | Three Estates | First estate; clergy, taxation less than 1% Second estate; nobility, taxation less than 1% Third estate; commoners, taxation more than 98% | 25 | |
| 13578745202 | Stages | Creation of national assembly, third estate stay the same, a seizure of the Bastille, declaration of the rights of man(1789) equality, natural rights, social contract. Right to own property, wealthy we're no longer exempt from tax | 26 | |
| 13582888493 | Nationalism hurt Napoleon: how? | Propelled the French army to fight for their country, saw Napoleon as foreign oppressor. Imposed French culture, revolts against France, efforts to drive out french | 27 | |
| 13582888494 | Instead of Russia attacking what did they do? | Burned crops and housing, French are hungry and cold, retreated. Scorched earth policy | 28 | |
| 13582888495 | Haitian revolution: touasaint l' ouverture inspired by what? | American and French Revolution against slavery, enlightenment ideals, established independent government, produced a constitution | 29 | |
| 13582888496 | L' ouverture took control of who and made what? | Haiti, and produced the constitution that granted equality and citizenship( independence) 1804 | 30 | |
| 13582888497 | Haiti became the first what? | Latin American country to win independence, first post colonial to be led by black people, only country to become independent as a result of slave uprising | 31 | |
| 13582888498 | Creole revolutions in Latin America: who are the creoles? | Well educated people who were inspired by n America and France revolution. They were the offspring of the peninsular and felt superior to the mestizos. Peninsulars felt superior to all. African slaves indigenous and mix between the two bottom | 32 | |
| 13582888499 | Creoles tend to be what? | Wealthy landowners, mine owners and business people. Most vocal against mercantilism | 33 |