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Question 1

Declaration of Independence

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Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries, listed grievances the colonies had with Great Britain and declared themselves as an independent

Question 2

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite

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liberty, equality, brotherhood

Question 3

Philosophes

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Writers during the Enlightenment period who applied reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, science, politics economics, and social issues

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bastille

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Medieval fortress that was converted to prison stormed by peasants for ammunition during the early stages of the French Revolution

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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Adopted August 26, 1789, created by the National Assembly declaring basic human rights

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Reign of Terror

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(1793-94) during the french revolution when thousands were executed as opponents of the revolution for “disloyalty”

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Haiti

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Port-au-Prince; French colony on the island of St. Domingue

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Maroons

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Runaway African Slaves

Question 9

ToussaintL’Ouverture

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Important leader of the haitian revolution and the first leader of free haiti; in a long struggle again the institution of slavery, he led the blacks to victory over the whites and free coloreds and secured native control over the colony in 1797, calling himself a dictator

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Creoles

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Descendants of Europeans but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, and economic status

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Mestizos

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people of Native American and European descent

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Peninsulares

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people living in the new world, but born in Spain or England

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Mulattoes

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People of African and either European or indigenous ancestry

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Simon Bolivar

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Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; outlined his goals and concerns for Latin America in his “Jamaica Letter”

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Lola Rodriguez de Tio

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Puerto Rican who wrote patriotic poems that supported Cuban independence

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Propaganda Movement

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Revolutionary group in the Philippines led by Jose Rizal; distributed magazines, pamphlets, and other publications that agitated for greater autonomy for the Filipino people from Spain

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Italian peninsula

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A long peninsula in Southern European which Italy is located

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Realpolitik

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Political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than ideals

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Giusseppe Mazzini

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“the soul” of italian unification; carbonari that created young italy in 1831; agitated for Risorgimento

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Risorgimento

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“Renewal, to be born”; movement in italy to recreate a strong unified italian nation-state

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Giusseppe Garibaldi

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“the sword” of italian unification; italian general that gathered nationalistic volunteers and formed red shirts to fight against the austrians and italian monarchs that did not want the italian states to unify

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Otto von Bismarck

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Prime minister of Prussian that intentionally provoked three wars to provide the people with the sense of nationalism; used realpolitik and “blood an iron” to form German unification

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Ottomanism

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an ideology that was developed by the ottoman government in order to strengthen their subjects loyalty an create a more modern and unified state; sought to minimize ethnic, linguistic, an religious across the empire; conversely intensified people’s desire for independence

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immagration

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the movement of people into a country or region, from another country or region