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Unit 2 Test Flashcards

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Voltaire

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Promoted the idea of religious freedom and tolerance

• The idea of the separation of church and state

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Wrote of a “social contract” or government based on the general will of the people

• Robespierre’s committee of Public Safety

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Montesquieu

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Describe the ideal separation of powers in government that inspired the form of the US Constitution

• the form of the US government

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Emilie du Chatalet

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French noble woman wrote extensively about mathematics and physics

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Wrote that women deserve the same rights as men and that the key to gaining equality and freedom was better education

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John Locke

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English thinker who promoted the idea of natural rights and government responsible for its citizens

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Adam Smith

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Father of economics

Proposed a free market system

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Cesare Beccaria

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Italian reformer of the criminal justice system

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John Locke wrote that…

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If a ruler breaks the contract the people must rebel

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John Hobbes wrote that…

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Humans are selfish and need a strong ruler to whom they owe unbreakable allegiance

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote that…

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Wrote a “social contract.” I ruler could act under the laws that were created with the general will of the people

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How was the middle class exposed to enlightenment

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Through newspapers and magazines

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Denis Diderot

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Created the first encyclopedia

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Count Pierre de Beaumarchais

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Wrote a comedy “the marriage of Fígaro”

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Causes of the French Revolution

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  • Between the rich and the poor
  • Poor harvests and bread prices
  • Inept leadership- Louis XVI
  • Government debt
  • enlightenment ideas
  • desire for privileges
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Meeting of the states General

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Purpose was to solve the fiscal crisis

Failed because of the greed of the rich who refused to pay more taxes

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Jean Paul Marat

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• attacked opponents such as the Girondists in his paper, “friend of the people”

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Who killed Jean Paul Marat

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Charlotte Corday

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Cult of reason

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Adopted by the committee of Public Safety as an effort to reduce the influence of the church

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Napoleon

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  • born in Corsica
  • Led French soldiers to success in fighting Austrians in Italy
  • left troops in Egypt to seize power in France
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Mistakes of Napoleon

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1) Continental system of 1806/British blockade
2) Napoleon invaded Spain and replaced the Spanish king with his brother
3) broke peace agreement with Russia

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First island Napoleon is exiled

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Elba

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Battle of Waterloo

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Napoleon try to rebuild his army after escaping Elba

Defeated by British and Prussian forces

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2nd Island Napoleon was exiled to

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St. Helena

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Treaty of Paris

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Signed at the end of the Napoleonic wars

Restored the bourbon monarchy

Reset France’s borders

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Congress of Vienna

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Purpose was to place the rightful monarchs back on their thrones and to redraw the map

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Klemens de Metternich

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Austrian count

Played pivotal role at the Congress of Vienna

Goal was to restore the balance of power

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Concert of Europe

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Informal organization of the countries of Europe

Goals: 
•to contain France
•balance of power
•prevent another Napoleon
•keep territorial arrangements
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Holy alliance

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Coalition of Russia, Prussia and Austria

Established by Alexander I

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Touissaint L’Ouveture

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Freed slave

Joined Spanish army but switched sides

Could find openings in enemy lines

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

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Rekindled the rebellion

Led to the independence of Haiti

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Simon Bolivar

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Venezuela

Hated Napoleon’s betrayal of revolutionary ideals

Became president of gran Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia

Dreamed of a united Latin America

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Jose de San Martin

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Joined rebels in defeating the colonial rulers of Argentina

Led his army over the Andes to free chile

Went into self-exile to France

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Miguel Hidalgo

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Parish priest who began The revolution for Mexican independence by ringing the churchbell

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Santa Anna

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Caudillo who was 11 times president of Mexico

The war with Anglo – Texans against the Alamo

What’s the Mexican – American war

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Maximilian

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Austrian Archduke who was placed on the throne as emperor of Mexico by Napoleon III in 1861

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Benito Juárez

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1st Amerindian president of Mexico

Initiated La Reforma

Supporter fought against Mexican conservatives and a three-year Civil War and later against the French forces supporting Maximilian. Winning both times and assuming presidency

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La Reforma

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Called for land redistribution, separation of church and state, and increased educational opportunities for the poor

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Battle of atrafagar

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Napoleon wanted to invade Britain by sea but was stopped

Made Britain a Sea Power

Honors Modern World History (8 decks)

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