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Final Exam 2- Vocabulary
Vocabulary Review
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History
9th Grade
05/15/2012

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Huguenots
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French Protestants of the 1500s and 1600s
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divine right
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belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from God
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intendant
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official appointed by French king Louis XIV to govern the provinces, collect, & recruit soldiers
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dissenter
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Protestant whose views are opinions differed from those of the Church of England
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cabinet
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parliament advisors to the king who originally met in a small room or "cabinet"
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elector
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1 of 7 German princes who would choose the Holy Roman emperor
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mercenary
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solider serving in a foreign power for pay
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boyar
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landowning noble in Russia under the tsars
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partition
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a division into pieces
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Napoleonic Code
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French civil laws introduced in 1804; it gave equality of all citizens before the law, religious toleration and abolition of feudalism
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ancien regime
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an old social system that controlled France and had emerged in the Middle Ages
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bourgeoisie
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the middle class; at the tope of the third estate
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republic
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a government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarch
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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guillotine
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a falling blade used during the Reign of Terror; cut the person's head off
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plebiscite
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popular vote by ballot
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continental system
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Napoleon's boycott of British goods
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stock
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shares in a company; sold to investors to pay for companies
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urban renewal
Definition
rebuilding of the poor areas of a city
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standard of living
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a measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society
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temperance movements
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a campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
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women's suffrage
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the right to vote
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neutrality
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a policy of supporting neither side in a war
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militarism
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glorification of the military
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zeppelins
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large gas-filled balloons used to bomb other countries during WWI
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propaganda
Definition
the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
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reparations
Definition
payments for war damages
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proletariat
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the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners
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Fourteen Points
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a list of President Wilson's terms for resolving WWI and future wars
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total war
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the channeling of a nation's entire sesources into the war effort
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Dardanelles
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a vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean
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