UNIT 6 Flashcards
three Enlightenment thinkers
John Locke: contractual government (gets power from the people)
Voltaire: freedom of expression
Rousseau: political equality for all!
French Declaration? Written by whom? 3 values
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, Lafayette, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
French Revolution power progression
National Assembly and constitutional monarchy (89) –> republic with Convention (92) –> Robespierre and Jacobins (92) –> Directory (94) –> Napoleon (99/1802)
Convention reforms & actions
declare war on various European powers
levee en masse (major military draft)
secular alternative to church
Napoleon changes & actions
Concordat of 1801: peace with church
Civil Code: religious and political freedoms
limits free speech
causes of Latin American revolutions + dates
1810-25
- other revolutions
- instability in Iberia
- creoles vs. peninsulares
Mexican independence
Father Miguel Hidalgo –> 1823 republic after two-year dictatorship
Brazil independence
1822 Prince Pedro grants independence after he is exiled from Portugal when Napoleon invades.
Greek independence date?
1830, from Ottomans
Italian independence
Young Italy movements
Camillo and Vittore Emmanuele combine forces with Garibaldi combine forces
independence by 1870
German independence
Otto von Bismarck built German sentiment into a new nation by 1871.
German independence
Otto von Bismarck built German sentiment into a new nation by 1871.
German independence
Otto von Bismarck built German sentiment into a new nation by 1871.
social changes due to industrialization
demographic transition (lowering fertility rates) population increase affordable goods increased standard of living new social class changing family role child labor --> education
socialism ideas (Marx)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1860s
promoted proletariat revolution against the bourgeoisie
“dictatorship of the proletariat”