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UCOR Exam #2 Flashcards

1
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The timeline for exam #2 is what years?

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1690-1898

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2
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Who can be seen as the fathers of the Enlightenment?

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John Locke and Isaac Newton

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3
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Who published the Essay on Human Understanding?

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John Locke

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4
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Who divided power 3 ways?

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Montesquieu

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5
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Who legitimated slavery by saying ‘if they’re fully free like us, then we’re not Christian’

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Montesquieu

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6
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By 1898 the West owns how much of the world land?

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85%

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7
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What were the two political revolutions?

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America and France

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8
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What was the economic revolution?

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Industrialization

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9
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Who wrote Candide?

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Voltaire

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10
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Race is a human invention driven by ________.

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economics

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11
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1707, British people die where?

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Scilly Islands

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12
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7 B’s: Breakthrough in time

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GMT and John Harrison’s H-4

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13
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7 B’s: It’s Back

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Haley’s Comet

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14
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7 B’s: Book

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Candide

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15
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7 B’s: Brothers

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John and Charles Wesley conversion

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16
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7 B’s: Baptism

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Olaudah Equiano

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17
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7 B’s: Bishop’s ban

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John Newton, former slave trader, author of amazing grace.

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18
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7 B’s: Births

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Wilberforce and Wallstonecraft

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19
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What year was the glorious revolution?

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1688-1689

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20
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Who found out how to measure longitude?

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John Harrison

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21
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John Wesley wrote his last letter to whom?

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Wilberforce

22
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Thomas Paine, who called the revolutions good, was in conflict with whom?

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Edmund Burke

23
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National Assembly in France, when?

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1789

24
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Who were the Jacobin?

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Radical revolutionary party

25
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What changes did political secular France try to make?

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Rename chess pieces, play cars, go from 7 to 10 day weeks (which founded the metric system), and started at year 1.

26
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Who offered security in a time of French insecurity?

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Napoleon.

27
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In 1798, Napoleon invades what?

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Egypt

28
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1790 is to be seen as what?

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The transition to imperialism!

29
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Jefferson and John Adams both die in 1826, how many years after Dec. of Ind.?

A

50

30
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Name some latin american revolutionaries

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Bolivor, de san martin, Hidalgo, Tousan deauxuato

31
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When and What was the Monroe doctrine?

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1823, A warning for Europe to stay out of West.

32
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Who was Lord Canning?

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A British guy who thought markets would allow British to assert control.

33
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name the 3 important inventions in 1769

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steam engine, watts. water frame, arkwright. locomotive, cugnot.

34
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Name 3 non-western revolutions

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South Africa, Shaka. Nigeria, Fodio. Ali in Egypt against French.

35
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How to connect Industrialization to imperialism: Name the 2 motives, 3 myths, and 6 means.

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Motives: Raw materials and consumers (markets), Myths: Moral (Bible), Biological (Race), and Mechanical (immortal watt steamboat). Means: Weapons, Steamboat, Railroad, Suez Canal, Telegraph, and Quinine (cinchona tree).

36
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Name three important means of imperialism from 1869:

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Martini Rifle, Steamboat, and Railroad.

37
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What is charcoal made from?

A

Wood.

38
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What is the problem with pure coal?

A

Impurities

39
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Who turned coal into coke?

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Abraham Darby

40
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Thomas Newcomen invented what?

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Steam Machine

41
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What pushes people to the factories?

A

Agricultural revolution

42
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What date, if any, can be seen as the beginning of the Indust. Rev.

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1769

43
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Name there important guns.

A

Gattling, Maxim, and Martini

44
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What years were the Opium wars?

A

1839-42

45
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Sir John Hawkins

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also spelled as Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English shipbuilder, naval administrator and commander, merchant, navigator, pirate and slave trader.

46
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Nicolas de Condorcet,

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was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.

47
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

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German mathematician and philosopher. He occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy.

48
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore Robespierre

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was a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. As a member of the Estates-General, the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club, he advocated against the death penalty and for the abolition of slavery, while supporting equality of rights, universal suffrage and the establishment of a republic. He opposed war with Austria and the possibility of a coup by the Marquis de Lafayette. As a member of the Committee of Public Safety, he was an important figure during the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended a few months after his arrest and execution in July 1794.

49
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Olympe de Gouges

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was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. As political tension rose in France, de Gouges became increasingly politically involved. She became an outspoken advocate for improving the condition of slaves in the colonies as of 1788. At the same time, she began writing political pamphlets.

50
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François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture

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was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. His military genius and political acumen transformed an entire society of slaves into the independent state of Haiti.[2] The success of the Haitian Revolution shook the institution of slavery throughout the New World.[3]

51
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Simón Bolívar

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was a military and political leader. Bolívar played a key role in Latin America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians in the history of the Americas.

52
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Miguel Hidalgo

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was a Jesuit-trained, Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.

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