World History 2 Unit 4 Part 2

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Who is Tupac Amaru II

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led a large-scale rebellion in the Andes against Spanish rule. He was defeated and executed.

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Declaration of Independence

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Document written by Thomas Jefferson justifying the separation of Britain's North America colonies, declaring them free and independent states

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Constitution of the United States of America

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Agreement that created a more unified national structure for the United States, providing for a bicameral national legislature and independent executive and judicial authority, and incorporating a Bill of Rights

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Louis XVI

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King of France whose inability to adequately reform the French fiscal system laid the foundation for the French Revolution. After showing reluctance to rule as a constitutional monarch, Louis was arrested and beheaded by republican revolutionaries.

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Third Estate

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Before the Revolution, the order in French society that included most common people (the First Estate was aristocracy, the Second clergy, and the Third everyone else). Leaders of the Third Estate declared themselves a National Assembly in 1789, launching the French Revolution

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National Assembly

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Revolutionary assembly formed by members of the Third Estate after the failure of the Estates-General. They agreed on the "Declaration of the Right of Man and the Citizen, " forcing the king to sign the assembly's constitution

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Jacobins

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Radical republican faction in the French Revolution. They organized a military force that save the republic, but their leader Maxmilien, head of Committe of Public Safety, ruled by decree and set in motion The Reign of Terror.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Military commander who gain control of France after the French Revolution. Declared himself emperor in 1804 and attempted to expand French territory, but failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Died in exile after a brief return to power in 1815.

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

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Leader of the Haitian Revolution. Under his military and political leadership, Haiti gained independence and abolished slavery, becoming the first black-ruled republic in the Americas. He died in exile in France.

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Congress of Angostura

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Congress that declared Venezuelan independence after Simon Bolivar gave an opening address arguing for a strong central government with effective executive powers.

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Miguel de Hidalgo y Costilla

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Mexican priest who launched the first stage of mexican war for independence. Hidalgo appealed to Indians and mestizos and was thus viewed with suspicion by Mexican criollos. In 1811, he was captured and executed. The Spanish publicity displayed his severed and mutilated head in Guanajuato as a warning to other rebels.

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Why is Shay's Rebellion

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a crisis that brought about negotiations for a more centralized federal constitution

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What is Shay's Rebellion

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A rebellion that incldued war veterans who is mad over taxation without representation. also mad about the debt after the war. Brought about negotiations for a more centralized federal constitution

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Articles of Confederation

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first law of the United States. (States were responsible for debts remaining from the war, and they used taxes to meet those obligations (these taxes made many farmers give up there land--> they cant vote)

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Estates General

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Forcefully made by King Louis XVI. Each of the three orders of French Society would send representatives. Catholic Church, Nobility, Everyone Else(Third Estate)

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

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Document in which the National Assembly declared equality between nobility, church, and everyone else.

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Declaration of the Rights of Women

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Statement in which Women of the National Assembly declared equality with men. Though women were important to the Revolution, men ignored these appeals.

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S. agalactiae (group B) causes what?

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pneumonia
meningitis
sepsis
(mainly in babies; because it can be found in the vagina)

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Reign of Terror

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Period in the French Revolution in which The Committee of Public Safety quashed all its enemies--> 40,000 people died. Also the guillotine became the symbol of the Revolution.

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Saint- Domingue

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France's richest colony, generated incredible wealth for French merchants and sugar planters. (Modern- Day Haiti)

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Gens de couleur

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free men and women, mostly mixed race, who were about equal in number to the whites in Haiti. Having followed the American and French Revolutions, they wanted liberty and equality themselves.

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Simon Bolivar

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Latin American Revolutionary: looked to the ideals of the Enlightenment and the examples of the US, France, and Haiti revolutions,

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juntas

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ruling groups for local Latin American elites.

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criollos

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American born Spaniards

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llaneros

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tough frontier cowboys of mixed Spanish/ Amerindian descent