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26 Cards in this Set
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Radical |
A person who will break the law to maje politixal or social change |
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Aristocracy |
A group of noble families |
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Conservative |
A person who doesn't want to change the current political or social climate |
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Liberal |
A person who seeks political change by working with in the law |
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Enlightenment |
A movement In the 18th century that advocated |
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Napoleonic Code |
A set of laws in 1804 that guaranteed certain freedoms for France's people. |
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Voltaire |
French writer who believed in the freedom of speech and the separation of religion and government |
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Abdicate |
Renounce, give up a throne formally |
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Locke |
Enlightenment thinker who explained hay all men have natural rights, which are life, liberty and property |
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Estates General |
Representative body made up of three classes of French society: clergy, nobles, and commoners |
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Opium War |
Chinese war with Great Britain to rid China of British influence |
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Revolutionary |
An extreme supporter of complete political or social change. Often but not always achieved through Violence |
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Natural Law |
Pattern in the behavior of the universe, including laws of motion and gravity; observed during the European enlightenment by thinkers such as Isaac Newton |
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Montesquieu |
Philosophy who proposed in on the spirit of the laws that the separation of powers keeps any individual or group from gaining total control of government |
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Hobbes |
English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by selfishness of human beings |
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Rousseau |
French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; beloved that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution |
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Bourgeoisie |
The social class between the lower and upper classes |
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Coupe d' tat |
The overthrow of a government |
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Social contract |
People give up their individual sovereignty to state in exchange for peace and order |
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Guerrilla warfare |
Spanish word for little war |
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Despot enlightenment |
Idealized monarch that takes on the ideas of the enlightenment |
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Proletariat |
A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages |
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Nationalism |
The doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior |
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Commodore |
Naval officer who opened trade with Japan by taking a fleet of warships into Tokyo harbor |
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Divine right |
Political theory that a ruler derives his or her power directly from God |
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Limited Monarchy |
A gov in which the Monarchs power is limited by law |
