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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

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The campaign to eliminate slavery

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Social contract theory

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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

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Made by founding fathers

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French and Indian war

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A global war mainly between France and England

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Thomas Paine

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Wrote the Common Sence which urged Americans to revolt against the British

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Maximilian Robespierre

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A leader of the French Revolution who led the most radical and violent phases

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Napoleon Bomaparte

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French military leader and empire who won the revolution

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Reign of terror

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The period when Robespierre ruled and used terror to solidify his rule

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Congress of Vienna

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An assembly that happened after Napoleon’s rule to prevent it from happening again

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Toussaint L’Ouvertuture

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Led the slave Revolution that took control of Haiti from france

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Simon Bolivar

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Statesman who led the revolt of South American colons against Spanish rule

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Miguel Hidalgo

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A Mexican priest who initiated an unsuccessful revolution against the Spanish but is still a national hero

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Eli Whitney

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Inventor who made the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

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Adam Smith

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Made foundations of capitalism in “The Wealth of Nations”

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Karl Marx

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Established basis of Marxism in “The Communist Manifesto”

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Luddites

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Workers who destroyed equipment and got in trouble from the government because of this

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John Locke

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Enlightenment thinker: natural rights

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Voltaire

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Enlightenment philosopher who advocated for religious, political, and social liberties

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Enlightenment thinker who formulated the social contract theory and advocated for the power of the people and laid foundations for American and French Revolutions

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