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55 Cards in this Set
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Democracy
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Government by the people
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Monotheism
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Belief in one God
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Spread of Christianity
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Persecution
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Magna Carta
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Monarchs are not above the law
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Declaration of Independence
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Protects the rights of citizens
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Seneca Falls 1848
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Declaration of sentaments for women's rights
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Dynamo
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Machine used to generate electricity
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Assembly line
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Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks
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Realism
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19th century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as is
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John Dalton
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Modern Atomic Theory
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Sparta
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City- state in Ancient Greece
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France- social orders
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Clergy
Nobles Peasants |
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Battle of Saratoga
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Convinced the France to side with America in the American revolution
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Cotton gin
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Separated the cotton for the seed
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Luddites
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Group of workers who rioted against industries
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Thomas Mathus
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Tried to understand the staggering changes taking place in the early Industrial Age
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Temperance movement
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A campaign to limit/ ban the use of alcoholic beverages
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Urban renewal
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The process of fixing up the poor areas of the city
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Alfred Nobel
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Dynamite
Awarded the first Noble Peace Prize for the dynamite |
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Louis Pasteur
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Chemist who developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound
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Women's suffrage
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Right of women to vote
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Stocks
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Shares in a company
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Habeas corpus
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Person can't be held in prison with out being charge with a specific crime first
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Jury
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Group of people sworn to make a decision in a legal case
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Clergy
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1st estate in the French society
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Moses
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Led the Israelites out of persecution
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Republic
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System of government In which the officials are chosen by the people
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Abraham
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Lived in Ur, Mesopotamia
2000 BC migrated to Canaan |
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Tyrant
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Ruler who gained power by force in Ancient Greece
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Justinian
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Ruled from 527-565
Reform of the Roman law |
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Apostles
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Jesus' helpers to spread the gospel
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Salon
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Informal social gathering
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Jefferson
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Author of the Dec. of independence
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Diderot
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Wrote a 28 volume set if encyclopedias
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George III
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Imposed taxes of the 13 colonies
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Baroque
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Greeek/ roman tradition in a grand ornate state
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Montesquieu
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3 branches
Judicial Legislative Executive |
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Rococo
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Moved away from religion, classical and elegant
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George Washington
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Commander in the revolutionary war
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Adam smith
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Free market should be able to regulate business without the government getting in the way
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Popular sovereignty
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All power from the government comes from the people
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Turnpike
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Privately owned sections of road that you had to pay to get through
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Enterprise
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A business organization in shipping, mining, railroads, and factories
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Tenement
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Multistory building divided into crowded apartments
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James watt
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Made an engine
Key power source |
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Proletariat
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Working class
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Robert Owen
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Set up new model community in New Lenark, Scottland to put his own ideas to practice
Utopia |
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Anesthetic
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Pain killer
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Urbanization
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Population shifts into the city
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Entrepreneur
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Person who assumes financial risks in the hope of making a profit
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Population growth
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Reduced the risks of famine
Better food----> better hygiene and health |
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Claude monet
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Painter
Romanticism |
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Guglielmo marconi
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Invented radio in 1901
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English common law
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Legal system based on custom and court rulings
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