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1st prt.world history exam rev
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History
9th Grade
05/27/2008

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Denis Diderot

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editor of the encyclopedia
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Glorious Revolution
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William III gained the English throne
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Estates
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Prerevolutionary France was divided into these 3 groups
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Royalists
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delegates to the French national assembly who supported the king
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Reing of Terror
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period in which the Jacobins crushed their enemies
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Stamp Act
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colonial protest forced the repeal of this
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John locke
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author of the 2 treatises of government
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Galileo
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forced by the Catholich Church to recant his theories
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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advocated the beauties of nature and pleasures of community life
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Act of Settlement

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Parliament prohibited a Catholic from inheriting the English throne
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Robert Boyle
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established chemistry as a true science
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Deist
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denounced organized religion
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Rene Descartes
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he wrote the discoursed own method
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Saratoga

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American defeated the British, the French joined the American side

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Clarendon Code
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Anglicanism will be England's state religion
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Frederick II
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Prussian rule known for his reforms and enlightment beliefs
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Salons
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englightment era in intellectual gatherings
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Quebec Act
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Canadian Territory closed to American colonists
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divine right
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monarchs derive their power directly from God
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Antoine and Marie Lavoisier
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contributed to the study of oxygen
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John Wesley
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led the methodists movement
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estates General
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rarely called meeting of delegates from the 3 classes of France
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continental System
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prohibited the European countries from trading with the English
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Great Migration
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caused by the persecutions of the Purtians
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Olive Branch Petition
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2nd continental congress proposed a compromise to avoid war
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Tennis Court Oath
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promised by the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written
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Gregor Mendel
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genetics was based on his work
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Impressionists
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painters who sought to capture the impact a subject made on the senses
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Germany
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last European power to achieve political unity
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Maori
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original inhabitance of New Zealand
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Hungary
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Creation of the dual monarchy, restored his independence
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British Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800
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Band labor unions
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Ivan Pavlov

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examined the effect of stimuli on behavior
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Monroe Doctrine
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warned Europeans not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere
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karl Marx
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means of productions will be eventually seized by the proletarian
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov (Lenin)
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led the bolsheviks
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Auguste Comte
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contributed to the development of sociology
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Commune
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workers led socialists government of Paris
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Imperialism
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economic and political determination of one country by another.
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Blacklist
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factory owners used these to prevent the hightening of suspected union members
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Ferdinand Lasalle
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founder of  the universal German WMA
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Capital
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money to invest in labor, machinery, and raw materials
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mohandas Gandhi
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developed the boycott as an affectionment had of protecting British rule
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Isoruku Yamamoto
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developed plan to attack Pearl harbor
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Yalta
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss the post war era
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Augusto Cesar Sandino
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led the resistance to the Us invasion of Nicaragua
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Kristallnacht
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Nazi attak on Jewish homes and businesses
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Cash and Carry policy
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U.S. supplied British although they were neutral
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Commonwealth of Nations
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Great Britain and former colonies
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Juan Vincente Gomez
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put American and European companies controlled the Venezuelan oil industries
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Alsace-Lorraine
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dispute between the French and Germans over the area
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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created a separate peace between Prussia and Germany
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benito Mussolini
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fascist leader of the black shirts
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Tripartite Pact
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Italy and Germany declared war on the U.S. honoring this
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Albert Einstein
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developed the theory of relativity
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Muslim League(India)
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opposed the aim of an independent united India
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Carlos Menem
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brought Argentina's hyperinflation under control
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Douglas Mac Arthur
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head of the occupation government of Japan
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Willie Brandt
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tried to reduce tension between West Germany and Soviet
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Policy of Containment
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keep communism within its existing borders
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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negotiated British withdrawal from Suez canal
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Zapatista
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opposed NAFTA feared it would result in handover of Mexican land of large corporations
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Cultural Revolutin (china)
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called the end of the influence of the Pragmatists
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Jean Cretian
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opposed Quebec separation
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Middle Eastern fundamentalism
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caused by opostion to Western Influence
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Daila Lama
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led a worldwide campaign against communist chinese control of tibet
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Shining Path
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defeated by the government of Alberto Fugimont
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38th Parallel
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the dividing line between North and south Korea
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Genetic engineering
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alteration of cells to produce new life form
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Golant Heights
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Obstacle to the Israeli peace agreement
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apartheid
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black south Africans were forced to live in segregated townships
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In 1588 where did the Spanish Armada suffer a disastrous defeat?
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Entrance to English Channel
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For what was Peter the Great's rule notable?
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encourage the spread of Western Europe learning
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How did Frederick the Great reject the Pragmatic sanction?
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seized Hapsburg Territory
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What was long-standing goal of Russian Rulers?
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acquired greater access to the sea
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What was Louis XIV known as
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Sun King
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What did King James I's ascension to the English throne mark?

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the end of tudor rule1
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What did the French involvement in Thirty years' War stem from?
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to curb the power of Austrian Hapsburg
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What was the Cromwell's rule of England marked by?
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his imposition of Puritans rule's behavior
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What did the Puritans disapprove of ?

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symbols in Catholic Church
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Where did British forces and American colonists fight as allies?
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French and Indian War
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How did the Constitution of 1791 change the structure of the French government
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limited power of king
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did the 3rd estate include the clergy?
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NO!

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What influenced the Declaration of Rights of Man?
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English bill of rights, enlightened delusimy and declaration of independence
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Among which 3 branches of government did the U.S. Constitution split political authority?
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legislative, executive, judicial as suggested by Montesquieu
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What did Hobbes argue in Leviathan?
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absolute monarchy is best form of government
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Who governed France after the reign of Terror and before Napoleon's coup d'etat?
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directory
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What did the domestic system in Great Brtitian grow out of demand for?

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Woolens
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When did the reign of Napoleon III end?
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when he was captured by the Prussians
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