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
All laws or actions should be judged by their utility and individual freedom
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Temperance movement
Banning alcoholic beverages
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Alfred Nobel
Nobel peace prize maker and dynamite
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Standard of living
More products available at lower prices
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Louis Pasteur
Discovered germs can cause disease
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Woman's suffrage
Women's right to vote. Expanded voting rights
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Zemstvo
Assemblies that handled public matters
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Pogrom
Violent mob attacks against Jews
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Duma
Elective national legislature in Russia
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Led Red Shirt Army and took over Sadine
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Francis Joseph
King of Austria (18 years old)
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Zionism
Movement to rebuild Jewish state (major result of Dreyfuss Affair)
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Manifest Destiny
Idea of U.S. expanding across continent
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Louisiana Purchase
Doubled the size of U.S.
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Segregation
Legal separation of races
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Abolition movement
Campaign against slavery
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Trade deficit
Buy more than you sell
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Balance of trade
Balance of how much you import and export
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Ram Mohun Roy
Founder of Indian nationalism
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Protectorate
Let them rule but actually people are in charge
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Sun Yixian
Leader of Chinese Republic
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Liliuokalani
Hawaiian queen who tried reducing foreign influence
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Zaibatsu
Powerful banding and industrial families
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Diet
Assembly or legislature of Japan
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Benito Juarez
Liberal reformer of Zapolec Indian Heritage
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Caudillos
Local strongmen