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Humanities 313
Humanities 313
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Undergraduate 3
05/14/2013

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Third Estate
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The people of the country of France initially it had no voting power and was merely advisory the first estate is the clergy the second estate was the nobles nearly 98 percent of the population
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Oath of the Tennis Court Oath
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signed by the third estate June 20 1789 it was a meeting of the estates general after being locked out they met in an indoor tennis court sign a new constitution and Louis XVI is forced to make nobility and clergy accept the third estate
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Robespierre
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member of estates general and of the Jacobin party he was a dictator June 1793-July 1794
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Napoleonic Code
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the French Civil code established in 1804 it outlawed privileges based on bith, allowed freedom of religion and gave government jobs to the most qualified
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James Watt
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Scottish inventor improved the New Comen steam engine he came up with adding a separate condenser
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Friedrich List
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came up with the National System of Poiitical Economy (1841) he supported the formation of a customs union or Zolleverein this would allow goods to move between the German member stats without tariffs and would have tariffs against only other states
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Patience Kershaw
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testitiefied and helped explain the horrible conditions that these factories had put many families in to
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Klemens von Metternich
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the foreign minister of Austria met at the Congress of Vienna 1809 to 1848
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Johann Gottfried von Herder
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published treatise on the origin of language. He felt that language determined thought.
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Reform Bill of 1832
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major British political reform that increased the number of male voters by 50 percent and gave political representation to new industrial area.
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Louis Philippe
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French King 1830 to 1848 his father originally supported the French Revolution, but was later guillotined proclaimed king after King Charles X was forced to abdicate the throne Louis Phillipe took over as but what exiled to England and was the last king of France Emperor Napolean III was the last Monarch
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Louis Pasteur
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he created the vaccines fro Anthrax and Rabbies he also invented pasteurization strong proponent of germ theory
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Labor Aristocracy
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the highly skilled workers such as factory foreman and construction bosses who made up about 15 percent of the working classes from about 1850 to 1914
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Mrs. Beeton
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pubolished household management and was well knonw for her cookbooks
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Emile Zola
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he wrote in the naturalistic style and theatrical naturalism
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John Constable
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he was an English Romantic painter known for his landscapes and quote "I should paint my own places best"
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J. M. W. Turner
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was a British Romantic landscape painter commonly known as “the painter of light”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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American transcendentalist champion of individualism believed in inherent goodness of naturea and people
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Jacques-Louis David
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influential neoclassical painter known for history painting
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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he was a German poet one of the original Sturm and Drang movement
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George Sand
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French novelist and memorist
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Eugène Delacroix
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French Romantic artist prgfoundly influenced impressionists studied optical effects of color
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Ludwing van Beethoven
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German composer and pianist was imporatant in the transition from classical period to the Romantic period
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Richard Wagner
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German composer primarily known for his operas
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Karl Marx
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known for his critiques of capitalism was an influential German thinker
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Charles Dickens
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English writer and social critique wrote during the Victorian era in England
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Jean-François Millet
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French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in France known for his paintings of Peasant farmers naturalism and realism
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