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italian peninsula

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a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south

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immigration

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a process through which individuals become permanent residents or citizens of another country

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conservatism

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promotes free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas

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Deism

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questioning of religion, the idea that God created the world and then left it

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romanticism

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emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual

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nationalism

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a feeling of intense loyalty to others who share one’s language/culture

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights

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Voltaire

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a French Enlightenment thinker that was famous for his wit and advocacy of civil liberties

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salons

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wealthy women’s living rooms where enlightenment ideas were discussed between women who weren’t allowed in coffeehouses

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liberals

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a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law

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Samuel Coleridge

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an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets

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Jose Hernandez

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creator of Martin Fierro, a poem that romanticized the Argentinian gaucho (cowboy)

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First, Second, Third Estates

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social classes in 1789 France, first estate was the clergy, second estate was the nobility, and third estate was the commoners and the bourgeoisie

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bourgeoisie

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a “middle class” between peasantry and aristocracy.

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Tennis Court Oath

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created by the third estate, gave them more representation in government and limited the king’s power

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Bastille

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a fortress in Paris used as a state prison by the kings of France

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Olympe de Gouges

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a French playwright whose works asserted that French women should be given the same political right as men

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primogeniture

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eldest son inheritance

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Maroons

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people who escaped slavery to create independent groups and communities on the outskirts of slave

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creoles

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born of european parents in the americas

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Mestizos

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born of european and indian parents

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Peninsulares

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born in spain or portugal

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Zionism

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the desire of Jews to reestablish an independent homeland where their ancestors had lived in the middle east

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Emile Zola

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a French novelist who took up Dreyfus’ cause

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Edmund Burke
english statesman who was the philosophical founder of conservatism
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John Locke
enlightened thinker that argued the the social contract implied the rights of people to revolt against unjust government
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social contract
agreement between people and their government
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Baron Montesquieu
enlightened thinker who praised the british government's use of checks on power by parliament
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
enlightened thinker who's work rebelled against the social/political privileges of the French aristocracy as well as scientific rationalism
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Thomas Paine
an enlightened thinker who was militant in his defense of Deism, wrote the Age of Reason and Common Sense
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The Age of Reason
written by thomas paine arguing in favor of deism
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Declaration of Independence
a US revolutionary document where Jefferson used "unalienable rights": life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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United States Consitution
a document that created a republic with a bicameral legislative branch, executive elected through electoral college and a judicial branch
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separation of powers
the division of a state's government into branches, each with separate, independent powers and responsibilities, so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with others
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checks and balances
principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power
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Declaration of the Rights of man
a statement declaring basic human rights
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Code Napoleon
part of Napoleon's reform, made all citizens equal and provided trial by jury and freedom of religion. it also became the law code on any other land he conquered
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balance of power
suggests that states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough military power to dominate all other
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philosophes
a new group of thinkers who explore social, political and economic theories in new ways
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Theodor Herzl
an austro-hungarian jew leading the zionist movement
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Napoleon Bonaparte
an enlightened ruler of France (1799-1814)
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King Louis XVI
the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
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Maximilien Robespierre
leader of commitee of Public Safety, quelled oppisition by execution before being executed himself
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Tsar Alexander I
Russian leader who refused to sign a peace treaty with Napoleon
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Toussaint L-Ouverture
former slave who joined US and French revolutions and led a general rebellion against slavery
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Miguel Hidalgo
a mexican village priest who called on indians and mestizo for support in mexican indpendence from spain in 1810
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Benito Juarez
an indian lawyer from a background of poverty
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Archduke Maximilian
an Austrian who was appointed emperor of Mcexico by the French
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Jose de San Martin
a creole in S. America who defeated royalists to establish an independent government
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Simon Bolivar
creole who continued to push for enlightenment ideals in latin america
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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
classic liberal prime minister of Piedmont-sardinia who helped to unify Italy as a constitutional monarchy
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Giuseppe Mazzini
italian nationalist who had been agitating for italian resurgence since early in the 19th century
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
an italian general who led the red shirts military force
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Otto van Bismarck
Prussian leader who used nationalist feelings to engineer three wars to bring about German unification
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levee en masse
mass male conscription into military service
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Congress of Vienna
European powers exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba
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Klemens von Metternich
leader of the European powers that exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba
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Haiti
rich French sugar and coffee colony on the western end of the island of st. domingue
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conservatives
a person favoring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.
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La Reforma
a liberal revolt which resulted in a new constitution for mexico in 1854
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realpolitik
the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises
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Dreyfus Affair
an 1894 scandal that increased support for zionism. it involved a jewish man named dreyfus and anti-semitic feelings
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socialism
a theory which advocates that the means of production, distribution, an exchange should be regulated by the community as a whole
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physiocrats
the new economic thinkers who often followed the ideas of adam smith
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Adam Smith
enlightement thinker who argued for abandoning mercatilism in favor for free trade and he coined the phrase "laissez faire"
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The Wealth of Nations
argued for abandoning mercantilism in favor of free trade. written by adam smith
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laissez faire
governments should minimize intervention in the country's economy
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utopian socialists
those who felt that society could be channeled in positive directions by setting up ideal communities
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Claude Henri de Saint-Simon
utopian socialist who advocated strongly for public works that would provide employment
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Charle Fourier
utopian socialist who would make work more enjoyable and workers less tired
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RObert Owen
utopian socialist who established utopian communities in Scotland and the US to provide education for child workers
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New Lanark
the town in Scotland where Robert Owen's utopian communities were established
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New Harmony
the town in the US where Robert Owen's utopian communities were established
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Louis Blanc
utopian socialist who worked to get France national workshops
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Fabian Society
a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.
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classical liberalism
belief in natural rights, constitutional government, laissez-faire economy, and less spending on standing armies and churches

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