History Ch. 17&18

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Light, colorful, and joyful artistic style popular during the reign of Louis XV

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Rococo

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Principle that all governement power comes from the people

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Popular sovereignty

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King of england whose policies that helped bring about the American Revolution

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George III

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Argued that he forces of supply and demand in a free market can regulate business activity

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Adam Smith

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Informal social gathering where enlightenment thinkers exchanged ideas

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Salon

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Helped spread enlightenment ideas by compiling articles by leading thinkers into a 28-volume work

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Denis Diderot

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Chosen to command the American forces during the American Revolution

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George Washington

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Principle author of the declaration of independence

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Thomas jefferson

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Grand, ornate style of art and architechture popular during the age of Louis XIV

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Baroque

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French wealthy middle class

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Bourgeoisie

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War tactic in which napoleon closed Europeon ports to British goods

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Continental system

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Head of the French National Guard who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution

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Marquis de Lafayette

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One of the main leaders in the rain of terror

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Maximilien Robespierre

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Method for carrying out executions during the rain of terror

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Guillotine

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Wife of king Louis XVI known for her luxurious lifestyle

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Marie Antoinette

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Storming of this began the French Revolution

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Bastille

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Group of laws that reflected enlightenment principles and preserved most of the rights of the people gained by the revolution

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Napoleonic Code

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What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenement thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?

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Natural Laws

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In a vindiction of the rights of woman, mary wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal...

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Education

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Physiocrafts supported a government economic policy of...

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Laissez Faire

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Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they

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Challeneged the old order of society

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Which enlightenment despot successfully incorporated enlightnment ideas into the country

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Joseph II of Austria

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An enlightenment despot was a ruler who...

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Influenced political and social change

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Because the american colonies were home to diverse religious and ethnic groups...

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Social distinctions were more blurred than in Europe

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The battle of saratoga marked a turning point for the american revolution because..

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The american victory convinced france to support the Revolution

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American leaders gathered in philadelphia in 1787 to revise the countrys first constitution known as..

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The articles of confederation

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Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

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Scientific revolution

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According to Thomas Hobbes the best form of government is

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An absolute monarchy

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The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which enlightenment thinker?

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Montesquieu

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Diderot's Encyclopedia was important because it's purpose was...

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To change the general way of thinking

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Economist Adam Smith argued that in the free market business activity would be regulated by the forces of

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Supply and demand

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What enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people?

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John Locke

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In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of a social contract

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An entire society agrees to be governed by its general wil

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Enlightenment writers sometimes try to avoid censorship by...

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Disguising their ideas as fiction

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Elegant compositions by Bach handle and Mozarts reflected a new musical style of the enlightenment known as

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Classical

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In the 1700s British merchants gained enormous wealth by dominating what type of trade with Spanish America

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Slave trade

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Which British law imposed taxes on such items as newspapers pamphlets in any other printed material in the American colonies

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Stamp act

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Which of the following was an advantage of the colonists in the American revolution

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Knowledge and familiarity with the terrain

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The constitution create a federal republic which divides power between..

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National and state government

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The idea of separation of powers in the constitution was borrowed from enlightenment thinker...

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Montesquieu

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In France's old order who are the members of the first Eastate second Eastate third Eastate

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Clergy, nobility, everyone else/middle class

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Louis X VI was forced to dismiss his financial advisor when Necker proposed

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Taxing the first and second Estates

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One important result of the estates general was?

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The formation of the national assembly

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The national assembly voted to pay off the huge government debt by...

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Selling church lands

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The declaration of the rights of man in the citizen was modeled on the

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American Declaration of independence

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When the new French national convention 1792, what form of government did the radicals create

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Republic

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Which country was able to remain outside Napoleon's European empire

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Great Britain

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What were tactics helped the Russians defeat Napoleon

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Scorched earth policy

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The Congress of Vienna promoted to principal of legitamacy by

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Restoring hereditary monarchies

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In 1789 the delegates to the estate general that broke away in declared themselves to be the national simply we're from which Estate

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Third estates

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Participants in the tennis court oath swore to continue meeting until they were able to

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Establish a sound and just Constitution

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The women who marched on Versailles refused to leave until the king agreed to

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Return to Paris

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Robespierre Believe that France could achieve the republic of virtue only through

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The use of terror

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During the reign of terror trials and executions were carried out under the story of what group

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Committee of public saftey

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After overthrowing the directory in 1799 Napoleon and his followers set up a three-man governing board called the

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Consulate

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The continental system was a form of

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Exonomic warfare

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Napoleon's final defeat was at the

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Battle of waterloo

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A major goal of the decision makers at the Congress of Vienna was to

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Maintain peace in order and suppress revolutionary uprisings throughout Europe

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The declaration of the rights of man in the citizen proclaimed

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Equal rights for all man but no political rights for women

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_________ was the brutal head of the the comittee of punlic saftey

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Maximilien Robespierre

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The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to

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Defend France from threats

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The Russians defeated Napoleon superior grand Army by

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Destroying crops and villages as they pass them so the French could not utilize them