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What does Renassiance mean
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Re-birth
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What are the 3 ideals associated with the renissaince
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faith in the human intellect, reverence for physical beauty, spiritual perfection
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dates of batlle of hastings, magna carta, declaration of independence, rise of napoleon
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1066, 1215, july 4 1776, 1799-1815
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John adams
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lawyer, second president, boston, obnoxious
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thomas jefferson
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wealthy landowner, VA, third president
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Benjamon Franklin
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writer, inventor, electricity, PA
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How did Ben Franklin compare americans to the british
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rougher, simpler, more enterprising, more violent, and less refined
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what are your natural rights
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life, liberty, and property
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who was on the committe to write the decleration of independence
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john adams, ben franklin, thomas jefferson, livingston, sherman
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first estate
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made up of clergy, provided social services, no taxes
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second estate
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made up of nobility, absolute power, no taxes
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third estate
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the vast majority of the population, bourgeises
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who made up the bourgeoisie
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middle class, banker, merchants, doctors, manufactures, and lawyers
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three reasons why france was in debt
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lavish parties, funding in the american revolution, no ability to tax the first and second estate
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king and queen at the start of the french revolution
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louis xvi, marie antornette
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where did the queen come from
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austria
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How did voting work at the estates general
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one vote per delegation oppose to delagate
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what did the revolution do to feudalism in france
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abolish it
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what groups led a counterrevolution
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first and second estate
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who sat on the two wings of the national assembly
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left-jacobins
right- girodinots |
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what were the tow political beliefs of the two wings
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jacobins- liberal, changes
girodinotes- reactionaries, to go back to the way things were |
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what political position allowed napoleon to rise
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consul
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napoleon believed quality in all who
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men
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napoleon said everyone shall recieve
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in public education
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how did napoleon get support from the various factions
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common people- cheap food and prices
nobility- told them to come back and your safe and offered pardons to all emigras bourgeoisie- placed taxes on imported goods |
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the battle of the nile
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mediterrian sea, british and french, british won, nelson let it
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austerlitz
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frozen lake, retreated then shot cannons in the lake and they drowned
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waterloo
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napoleons last battle, lost
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purpose of decleration of independence
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to break away from britian
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puropose of magna carta
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the monarch has limited powers, King john signed
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english bill of rights
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people have rights that the government must protect 1689, william and marie
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decleration of rights of man
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all men were bron and remain free and qual rights
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us constitution
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seperation of powers, legislative, executive, judicial
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who were the primary players in the reformation
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john calvin, martin luther, louis vIII
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what government came after the national assembly
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committee of public safety
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what political group was in charge after the national assembly
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jacobins
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what was the period called after the national assembly and who ran it
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regin of terror and maximillion
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battle for russia
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600,000 troops left and less than 100,000 came back, napoleon, winter, vicotry
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simon bolivar
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brought the principles of enlightment to latin america
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power of the purse
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is the power to tax
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Rousseau
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people were corrupted by property, agriculture, buisness, and science
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voltaire
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his job is to say what he thinks, freedom of speech
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montesquieu
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seperation of powers, checks and balances
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hobbes
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monarchy, brutish, nasty, and cruel
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locke
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natural rights, life liberty and property
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