Vocab Flashcards

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Tyrant

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Gained power by force

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Republic

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Government that means thing of the people

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Jury

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Citizens who have authority to make final judgement in trial

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Habeas Corpus

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Cannot be jailed without being charged a specific crime

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English common law

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Custom and court rulers

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Baroque

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Grand complex style of art

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Adam Smith

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Supply and demand

Laissez faire

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Salon

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Social gathering to exchange ideas

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Popular sovereignty

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All government power comes from the people

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Montesquieu

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Separation of powers

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Robespierre

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Leader who wanted to get rid of nobility. Committee of public safety and led reign of terror

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Napoleonic Law

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French law that represented equality

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Bourgeoisie

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Middle class

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Marquis de Lafayette

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Led national government and stood up against royals

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Continental system

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Blockade against people (Britain)

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Recession

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Period of reduced economic activity

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Peninsularies

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Highest class of the Spain colony

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Mulattoes

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People of African, American, and European descent

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Mestizos

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Native American and European descent

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Radicals

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Person who wants to make extreme changes

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Urbanization

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Movement of people to cities

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Tenement

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Buildings divided into apartments

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James watt

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Invented steam engine

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Robert Owen

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Society based on cooperation instead of competition

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Jeremy Bentham

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All laws or actions should be judged by their utility and individual freedom

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Temperance movement

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Banning alcoholic beverages

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Alfred Nobel

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Nobel peace prize maker and dynamite

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Standard of living

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More products available at lower prices

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered germs can cause disease

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Woman’s suffrage

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Women’s right to vote. Expanded voting rights

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Zemstvo

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Assemblies that handled public matters

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Pogrom

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Violent mob attacks against Jews

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Duma

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Elective national legislature in Russia

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Led Red Shirt Army and took over Sadine

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Francis Joseph

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King of Austria (18 years old)

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Zionism

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Movement to rebuild Jewish state (major result of Dreyfuss Affair)

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Manifest Destiny

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Idea of U.S. expanding across continent

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Louisiana Purchase

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Doubled the size of U.S.

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Segregation

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Legal separation of races

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Abolition movement

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Campaign against slavery

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Trade deficit

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Buy more than you sell

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Balance of trade

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Balance of how much you import and export

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Ram Mohun Roy

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Founder of Indian nationalism

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Protectorate

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Let them rule but actually people are in charge

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Sun Yixian

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Leader of Chinese Republic

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Liliuokalani

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Hawaiian queen who tried reducing foreign influence

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Zaibatsu

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Powerful banding and industrial families

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Diet

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Assembly or legislature of Japan

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Benito Juarez

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Liberal reformer of Zapolec Indian Heritage

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Caudillos

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Local strongmen