Final Exam Flashcards by grace steil

This man’s main cause was for religious freedom

Voltaire

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This man came up with economics

Adam Smith

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Composer that lived in Austria, and was a child prodigy

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Time when the world was increasing education and the world coming out of the dark ages

Enlightenment

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wealthy person who supported the work of an artist or musician

Patron

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idea that God created the world and had no connection to it after it was created

deism

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How did Voltaire affect American Government

religious freedom people have the right to do what they want with their life

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What did John Locke mean by tabula rosa

that every person is born with a blank slate

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What disability did Mozart have which explains why he died in poverty

mental illness and he was a drunk

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Mistress to Louis the XV

Madame Pompadour

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Prime Minister of England while the kings George the I and II didn’t want to rule England

Robert Walpole

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Queen of Russia who killed her husband to gain control of Russia, and tried to make reforms but couldn’t do to the nobility resisting her

Catherine the Great

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Unchangeable privileges that every person is born with and can’t be taken away from them

Natural Rights

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monarchy that applied enlightened principles

Enlightened Absolutism

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No one country has more power than another

Balance of Power

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Why did England change its name to the United Kingdom of Great Britain

because they united with Scotland and Wales

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What was unusual about English Kings George I and George II

they were German and didn’t speak English

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How was Russian society different form the rest of Europe

they had nobles with large estates and serfs

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This person used the idea of natural rights of the people for the Basis of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

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black slave who lead revolt of slaves for the freedom of Haiti

Toussaint L’Ouverture

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French General who became Emperor of France and lost his empire because he got stuck in a Russian Winter

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Part of French Society made up of Nobility and land owners 2-3% of population

Second Estate

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Middle age Castle - Prison - army supply depot that the french military used and their was an attack on

Bastille

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overthrow of a govt

coup d’etat

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Why did the colonies form a weak central government Articles of Confederation

because they didn't want a strong natl govt and paranoid of too much power

What was the Tennis Court Oath

where the 3rd Estate created a new govt where everyone had a say

What hurt Napoleon when he was in Russia

Winter

Invented the Steam Engine

James Watt

Investor willing to take a risk

Entrepreneurs

Where did the Industrial Revolution Begin

Britain

Invented the Locomotion

George Stephenson

taxes on imported goods

tariff

How did the arsenal at Harper's Ferry change Manufacturing

interchangeable parts

Sought elimination of poverty through govt building housing and govt helping the people

Edwin Chadwick

middle class person

bourgeoisie

What was the purpose of the Poor Law act of 1834 in Britain

make being poor illegal

Leader of Austria who also helped created the Quadruple Alliance

Prince Metternich

Descendants of European Elite in Latin America

Creoles

What was Thomas Malthus' theory on population growth

population would grow to a point and then fall off because we wouldn't be able to produce enough food

man best known for supporting women's rights

John Stuart Mills

communities where people lived and worked together

phalansteries

How did the America's reform prisons

the reformed the prisoners and reintroduced them into society

leader of Italy that tried to reunite them

Giuseppe Manzzini

horror Stories

Gothic Literature

What did Romantic writers emphasize

emotions over reality Freedom/heroics

Elected to be leader of France

Louis Napoleon

What European Nation tried to gain control of much of the Ottoman Empire

Russia

nurse in Crimean War, also created Red Cross

Florence Nightingale

Genius Political leader of Germany

Otto Van Bismarck

Prussian Legislature

Reich-stag

What was the basis of the Republican Party

elimination of slavery

book written by Karl Marx

Communist Manifesto

industrial working class

proletariat

How did Realism differ from Romanticism

they wanted to deal with the real problems in the world

Made the Model T car and came up with the assembly line

Henry Ford

businesses that worked together to control prices and production in order to reduce competition

Cartel

piece worker paid by the piece made workers could work from home

sweating

Why did many European emigrate from their homes

to work in the factories

founder of the boy scouts

Robert Baldwin-Powell

What was the purpose of boy scouts

to toughen up the boys

sensationalism - curiosity pieces feature news stories to get people's attention

Yellow Press

Irish Representative in British Parliament

Charles Parnell

How did Bismark Steal the thunder of the radical socialists

changed before it could be made an issue out of

Discovered Radium which gave off radiation and the atom

Marie Curie

This person became a leader in the world of psychology

Sigmund Freud

application of Darwin's theory's that one race is better than another and they should dominate other races

Social Darwinism

Impressionist painter

Claude Monet

What was the first goal of the women's rights movement

protections for themselves in the case of divorce and death of the husband

belief that Jews should return to Palestine

Zionism

Dutch people who lived in South Africa

Boers

Why was Russia embarrassed after the Japanese Russian War

they lost

What did Germany take that France had after the Franco-Prussian War

the Alsace-Lorraine

nephew of the Emperor of Austria who was assassinated, which started WWI

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

A British Military officer that convinced the people in the Middle East to Revolt against the Ottoman Empire

Lawrence of Arabia

Radical communist party that revolted against the Czar of Russia

Bolsheviks

Leader of the Bolsheviks

Vladimir Lenin

How did WWI change the Status of women

women had to step up and take the men jobs and do what was needed to help the war effort

Fourteen things that should be done in order to prevent another world conflict

14 Points

the bill that Germany had to pay after WWI

reparations

What happened to the Russian Tzar's Family

they were murdered

European Nations joined together to try and prevent another world conflict

League of Nations

Why did agriculture price drop sharply in the late 1920's

because the USA no longer needed to feed the world

govt takes over everything and is Authoritarian extreme right winger

Fascism

Social leader who wanted India to be free

Mohandas Gandhi

Hitler's Autobiography

Mein Kampf

What made the Nazis appealing

they told the people what they wanted to hear

What was Hitler's Main philosophy

racism

Russian committee of communists that lead Russia

Politburo

Midwestern architect that built streamlined buildings

Frank Lloyd Wright

writing in the 1st person

Stream of Consciousness

Great Britain's Prime Minister that didn't want another world war and appeased Hitler

Neville Chamberlain

Germany decided they needed more land in WWII

Lebensraum

Hitler gave western Europe Guarantee that he just wanted Czechoslovakia

Munich Conference

How did the Great Depression Hurt Japan

they could no longer trade with anyone and depended on the natural resources

Prime minister of Britian during WWII

Winston Churchill

U.S. General in Europe during WWII

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First city we dropped the atomic bomb on

Hiroshima

Killed Himself after Loosing WWII

Hitler

Worst of the Nazi prison camps

Auschwitz

USA will help anyone who is threatened by communism

Truman Doctrine

we offer financial aid to any country that wants to rebuild after WWII

Marshal Plan

Why did North Korea attack South Korea

because it needed South Korea to feed it's people

severe segregation rules against native Africans in South Africa

Apartheid

WI senator that went after anyone who was thought to be a communist

Joseph McCarty

African minister who lead peaceful civil rights movement

Martin Luther King Jr.

Catholic Council that made changes to the Church

Vatican II

Famous painter who painted common household objects

Andy Warhol