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0
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John Calvin emphasized _________ the belief that God determined in advance who would be saved and who would not

A

Predestination

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Theologians of the reformation disagreed about how people could achieve _________ or acceptance into heaven

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Salvation

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2
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Characteristics of the renaissance

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Rebirth of ideas, city states

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3
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Who painted the figures on the Sistine Chapel?

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Michelangelo

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4
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Why did King Henry establish the Church of England

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So he could annul his current marriage to marry Anne Boleyn

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5
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3 Italian city states

A

Milan
Venice
Florence

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6
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He wrote The Prince

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Machiavelli

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7
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Trading route that connected Europe Africa and the Americas

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Triangle of trade

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8
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Main reasons for European expansion

A

God gold and glory

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9
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Nation controlling most of North America by the end of the 1600s

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Great Britain

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10
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Mercantilism

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Power= wealth

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11
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What caused most deaths to the Aztec and inca empires

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Smallpox brought by the Spanish

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12
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First to circumnavigate the globe

A

Magellan

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13
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Conquerer of the incas

A

Pizarro

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14
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Stuart rulers of England believed in the _________ right of kings

A

Divine

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15
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John lock called the right to life liberty, and property, _________ rights

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Natural

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16
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Absolutism

A

System In which one ruler has total power

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17
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What artistic movement replaced the renaissance

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Mannerism

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18
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Cultural changes made by Peter the Great

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Opened up to west
Increased military
Greater power

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19
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Queen Elizabeth was able to strengthen the British navy and defeat the Spanish ________

A

Armada

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20
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French king known for absolute rule

A

Louis XIV

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21
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Enlightened absolutism

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System in which rulers try to govern by enlightenment principles

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22
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Laissez-faire

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Let people do what they want

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23
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Sevens year war took place in what three regions

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North America
Europe
India

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24
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How many amendments are in the bill of rights

A

10

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25
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Example of checks and balances in US government

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President using veto

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26
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The church threatened to excommunicate ________ for his discovery that the earth was not the center of the universe

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Galileo

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27
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Systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence

A

Scientific method

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28
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Classes of French society before the revolution

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1- clergy
2- nobility
3- commoners

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29
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Coup d’état

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Overthrow of a government

30
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Principles of napoleonic code

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Equality of citizens
Choose your own profession
Religious freedoms
No serfdom

31
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What was the goal of the continental system

A

Weaken Great Britian

32
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Where was Napoleon defeated for the first time

A

Waterloo, Belgium

33
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Tax that neither the clergy mor the nobles had to pay

A

Taille

34
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Declaration of the rights of man and citizen was modeled after…

A

The Declaration of Independence

35
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Conservatism

A

Philosophy based on tradition obedience and religion

36
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Socialism

A

Government owns and controls means of production

37
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What did industrialism trigger a dramatic increase in

A

Social issues ex) child labor

38
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Largest problem in czarist Russia

A

Serfdom

39
Q

Why did factory owners work in shifts

A

Machinery could be used constantly

40
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Laws that allowed landowners to fence of common lands

A

Enclosure movement

41
Q

Principle of intervention designed by:

A

Clemens Von Matternich

42
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Karl Marx’s term to describe the working class

A

Proletariat

43
Q

Pioneer of the assembly line

A

Henry ford

44
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Collective bargaining

A

Negotiating between worker and boss on money, working conditions, and time.

45
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What social class made up the majority of the Europeans population by the end of the 19th century?

A

Working class (80%)

46
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What right did women win in order to improve the overall position of women

A

Suffrage or voting

47
Q

Invented the telephone

A

Alexander Graham Bell

48
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Invented the lightbulb

A

Thomas Edison

49
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Mobilization

A

Assembling of troops and supplies for war

50
Q

What did western countries do in order to increase size of their armies?

A

Drafts or conscription

51
Q

What resulted from the Balkan Crisis

A

WW1

52
Q

When was the archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated

A

June 28 1914

53
Q

The entente alliance

A

France
Great Britain
Russia

54
Q

Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire

A

Trenches

55
Q

He urged the Arab princes to revolt against the Ottoman Empire

A

Lawrence of Arabia

56
Q

Triple alliance

A

Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy

57
Q

Last czar of Russia

A

Czar Nicholas II

58
Q

What were Woodrow Wilson’s proposals for peace

A

14 points

59
Q

Whose assassination started WW1

A

Archduke of Austria

60
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Allied Powers

A

US
GB
USSR

61
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Axis powers

A

Japan
Germany
Italy

62
Q

Date that will live in infamy

A

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7 1941

63
Q

Holocaust

A

Mass slaughter of the European Jews

64
Q

Approximately how many Jews were killed

A

6 million

65
Q

D-Day

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Normandy, June 6 1944

66
Q

Where US dropped bombs

A

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

67
Q

He was denied freedom from Slavery by the Supreme Court because he was not a citizen of the US

A

Dred Scott

68
Q

Advantages of the North

A

Industrial

Greater population

69
Q

Advantages of the south

A

Their territory

70
Q

He made a failed attempt to start a slave revolt at harpers ferry

A

John brown

71
Q

Authored the Kansas Nebraska act, it said….

A

Douglas, popular sovereignty

72
Q

When was Lincoln assassinated

A

April 15 1865

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