Whap key term 4 Flashcards

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Estates-General

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France traditional National Assembly with 3 groups of people clergy, nobility and commoner(biggest but have the least power)

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National Assembly

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The commoners self declared government of France

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Declaration of the right of man

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Declaration of the National Assembly’s political rights

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Jacobins

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Violent advocates during the French Revolution lead by Maximilian Robespierre

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Enclosure

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Communal land divided into farm plots

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Urbanization

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Significant growth of cities

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Domestic system

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Merchants would send materials to producer who worked in their homes to make goods.

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Flying shuttle

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Industrialized the weaving process

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Spinning jenny

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It spun cloth to help speed up cotton manufacturing

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Cotton gin

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Sped up textile production by separating cotton fibers from their seeds

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Steam engine

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Used steam to power boats

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Interchangeable part

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Parts made uniform so easily replaced

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Assembly line

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A system of production were one person had one job

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Free market system(capitalism)

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The means of production are privately owned and supply and demand would determine prices

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Laissez-faire capitalism

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Government doesn’t regulate the economy

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Socialism

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Production and distribution of goods is controlled by the government

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Communism

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Everything is shared equally among everyone

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Labor unions

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A organization of workers fighting for good work conditions

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Social mobility

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Being able to move from one social class to the next

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Communist manifesto

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A book by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that says capitalism will fail

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Proletariat

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The worker class that has no control

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Bourgeoisie

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The ruling class in capitalist society

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Natural rights

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Rights that everyone has

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Suffrage

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The right to vote, commonly connected with woman.

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Abolition
The campaign to eliminate slavery
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Social contract theory
The government has complete authority over the people and the people get protection and people get the right rebel if the government is mean
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Declaration of Independence
Made by founding fathers
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French and Indian war
A global war mainly between France and England
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Thomas Paine
Wrote the Common Sence which urged Americans to revolt against the British
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Maximilian Robespierre
A leader of the French Revolution who led the most radical and violent phases
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Napoleon Bomaparte
French military leader and empire who won the revolution
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Reign of terror
The period when Robespierre ruled and used terror to solidify his rule
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Congress of Vienna
An assembly that happened after Napoleon’s rule to prevent it from happening again
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Toussaint L’Ouvertuture
Led the slave Revolution that took control of Haiti from france
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Simon Bolivar
Statesman who led the revolt of South American colons against Spanish rule
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Miguel Hidalgo
A Mexican priest who initiated an unsuccessful revolution against the Spanish but is still a national hero
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Eli Whitney
Inventor who made the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
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Adam Smith
Made foundations of capitalism in “The Wealth of Nations”
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Karl Marx
Established basis of Marxism in “The Communist Manifesto”
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Luddites
Workers who destroyed equipment and got in trouble from the government because of this
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John Locke
Enlightenment thinker: natural rights
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Voltaire
Enlightenment philosopher who advocated for religious, political, and social liberties
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enlightenment thinker who formulated the social contract theory and advocated for the power of the people and laid foundations for American and French Revolutions