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11/26/2005

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Bastille
Definition
-a prison where there was rumored to be guns and gunpowder
-the revolters threw down the Bastille as a symbol of destroying the power of the monarchy
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Bill of Rights
Definition
-the first 10 amendments of the constitution
-give people natural rihgts and protect them
-part of Great Compromise of ratifying the constitution
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Committees of Correspondence
Definition
a committee that tried to unite the Colonies in their hatred for Britain
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Constitution
Definition
a document stating the laws, rules, regulations, and restrictions of the US government
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Definition
a document stating the laws, rules, regulations, and restrictions of the French government
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Nationalism
Definition
pride and devotion to one's country
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Secular
Definition
non-religious
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Sufferage
Definition
the right to vote
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National Assembly
Definition
the group created by the third estate when they broke away from the estates general, they claimed to represent the French people
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Federalism
Definition
belief that the fed. gov't should be stronger and more powerful than the state gov'ts
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Boston Tea Party
Definition
when Bostonians, in an act of defiance of the British government's unfair taxes threw all the tea off a docked tea ship into Boston Harbour
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
began in England because they had
-natural resources (coal and iron)
-money from their colonies
-workers
-strong navy -> protection
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Marbury v. Madison
Definition
a supreme court case that ultimatley resulted in the supreme court having the power to declare a law unconstitutional
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the Battle of Waterloo
Definition
fought between Napoleon (France) and the allied Duke of Wellington (Britain) and Blucher (Prussia). this battle ended Napoleon's power, and resulted in his exile to Elba, and a new monarch on France's throne.
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Stamp Act of 1765
Definition
when parliament placed a tax on all official documents in the colonies
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Stamp Act of 1765
Definition
when parliament placed a tax on all official documents in the colonies
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Proclamation of 1763
Definition
a document stating that all land west of the Appalachains were reserved for the Native Americains and closed for all settlers
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Northwest Ordinance
Definition
continetal congress frorm the AofC got the NWTerritory, which was accepted as part of the US, and given the same rights as the people in the other 13 colonies. teh boundaries were:
-ohio river to the south
-Missippi river top the west
-Great Lakes/ Canada to north
-Appalachian mts/ ohio river to the east
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manifest destiny
Definition
belief that god wanted the Americans to expand America’s borders from ocean to ocean. This lead them to purchase “barren” Alaska from Russia in 1867 and annex Hawaii in 1898. America continued to expand, applying the manifest destany to their expansionist values.
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Temperance
Definition
Moderation in or total abstinence from the use of alcoholic beverages. This movement became one of the first organized reform movements in the United States when alcohol was blamed for crime, insanity, and the breakdown of the family.
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Alien & Sedition Acts
Definition
1798 - America gained power to expel aliens. Sedition Act - frobade publishing anything bad about the president. Signed by Adams
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Reconstruction
Definition
Amnesty granted to anyone who would pledge loyalty to union; military occupation of the south; civillians can't be tried in military courts.
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13th Amendment
Definition
Abolition of slavery
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14th Amendment
Definition
1) penalized southern states that prevented blacks from voting 2) stopped former confederate leaders from serving in government 3) forbid fed. gov't from paying confederate debt 4) insured payment of debts owed to fed. gov't
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15th Amendment
Definition
1) replaced sect. 2 of 14th amendment; did not let black votes be left up to the state 2) congress could enforce amendment
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Compromise of 1850
Definition
Allowed California to join the union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico could vote on whether to be free or slave, slave trade was banned in DC, and fed. marshalls had to help capture fugitive slaves.
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Missouri Compromise
Definition
Missouri was admitted as a slave state; Maine broke off of Mass. as a free state. Slavery not allowed north of 36 30 lattitude line.
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Kansas and Nebraska Acts
Definition
1854: Kansas and Nebraska, allowed citizens of territories to vote to be slave or free. Repealed the no slavery north of the line passed in Missouri Compromise.
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External Tax
Definition
Regulate trade outside the colonies. Colonists thought Britain had a right to tax this way.
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Internal Tax
Definition
A tax on internal affairs within the colonies. Colonies thought that Britain had no right to tax this way.
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Open Door Policy
Definition
The United States believed that anyone who wanted to should be allowed to trade with China. This was in response the the spheres of influence being established in China. The US was ignored.
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Spheres of Influence
Definition
A form of imperialism where foriegn power gains exclusive economic rights within another country.
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
Document passed by President Monroe that forbids any European colonies in America.
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
TR's addition to the Monroe Doctrine that gave the US the right to police the Western Hemisphere.
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Sepoys
Definition
Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India
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Boer War
Definition
Fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization in South Africa.
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Triple Entente, Allied Powers
Definition
World War I alliance involving Britain, France, and Russia
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Triple Alliance, Central Powers
Definition
World War I alliance involving Germany, Austria - Hungary, and Italy (who eventually switched powers and went to the Triple Entente)
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Boxer Rebellion
Definition
1900, a group of boxers assaulted foreign communities across China
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imperialism
Definition
domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
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MAIN resons for WWI
Definition
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
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militarism
Definition
build up of ones army
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nationalism
Definition
a feeling of pride for your country
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opium war
Definition
conflict between Britain and China in 1839 over the opium trade
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westernization
Definition
process of adopting western ideas or ways
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Estates General
Definition
The official name for the French Parliment.
called to resolve the French Revolution.
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Reign of Terror
Definition
Lead by Danton and Robespierre, it was caused by the act of executing all those suspected of opposing the revolution.
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Reform Bill of 1867
Definition
The Conservative party passed the Reform Bill of 1867, which gave middle-class men the right to vote.
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19th Amendment
Definition
gave women the right to vote
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Louisiana Purchase
Definition
-In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France, which doubled the size of the United States.
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Annexation of Texas
Definition
-annexed by congress from Mexico in 1845
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Purchase of Alaska
Definition
-purchased from Russia in 1867
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WWI (Causes of)
Definition
M- Militarism- build up of ones army
A- Alliances- Triple Entente
-World War I alliance involving Britain, France, and Russia
- Triple Alliance
-World War I alliance involving Germany, Austria - Hungary, and Italy (who eventually switched powers and went to the Triple Entente)
I- Imperialism- imperialist and economic rivalries among European powers
N- Nationalism- pride and devotions to ones country
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Zollverein
Definition
-An economic union created by Prussia
-It dismantled tariff barriers between many German states
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Duma
Definition
-an elected national legislature in Russia.
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Pogroms
Definition
-a violent mob attack on a Jewish community.
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Realpolitik
Definition
-Realistic politics based on the needs of the state
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Zaibatsu
Definition
-industrial leaders in the Meiji Restoration in Japan
-owned major companies etc.
-> new class in Japan
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Social Darwinism
Definition
-survival of the fittest in human society
-excuse for imperialism, racism, sexism, corporations, etc.
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Assembily Line
Definition
-Ford invented it to make the cars
-sped up mass production and helped cause the industrial revolution
-> cheaper goods (supply and demand)
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Second Reich
Definition
(Reich is german for empire)
-Second German Empire
-lead by Bismarck
-> made powerful by nationalism, had many colonies, industrialization, strong government, and strong army (best army in the world)
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Third Republic
Definition
-was in France
-happened after the Revolution of 1848
-Napoleon 3 was the leader before the republic
*Thought he would bring back nationalism and Nap. Bonaparte
*Not a good leader and becomes a dictator
-Industrial revolution is occuring -> life is bad
-foreign affairs
*lost land in Italian unification
*lost Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war
*Napoleon is captured by the Prussians during the war
-> 3rd Republic is set up by Germany
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Problems of the third republic
Definition
-Paris Commune
*Ppl want to create a new, radical gov't
-> ppl revolt and are squashed by the gov't
-Can't set up the new gov't
*create a 2-house legislature that elects the president
*also had a prime minister
-Dreyfus Affair
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Serfdom
Definition
-really bad peasantry
-usually farmers that work on the nobels land
-have to pay taxes and give nobels crops
-are bound to land
-> like sharecropping but different
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