World History Exam 2 Flashcards
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Thomas Paine
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- Thomas Paine was an English-American writer and political pamphleteer.
- His “Common Sense” pamphlet and Crisis papers were important influences on the American Revolution.
- He was known as one of America’s founding fathers.
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John Adams
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- John Adams married Abigail Smith, with whom he had six children.
- Adams attended the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia as a Massachusetts delegate.
- He was one of the names signed on the Declaration of Independence, and became the second president of the United States of America.
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Thomas Jefferson
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- Thomas Jefferson is credited with writing the Declaration of Independence.
- He was an American founding father and the third president of the USA. - - He also served in the Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia.
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George III
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- George III was married to Charlotte, with whom he had fifteen children. - - He was a controversial British monarch known for his long reign and struggle with mental illness.
- He was the third Hanoverian monarch, and the first one to be born in England and to use English as his first language.
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Lord North
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- He grew up in a wealthy aristocratic family.
- He was the prime minister of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. - His failure to suppress the American colonies gave him a reputation for incompetence that is still debated among historians today.
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Maximilian Robespierre
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- He was elected to the Estates-General in 1789, and was a French lawyer who became one of the primary leaders of the French Revolution.
- He led the Committee of Public Safety.
- He played an important role in the abolition of slavery.
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King Louis XVI
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- Upon coming to the throne in 1774, King Louis inherited a kingdom beset with serious problems.
- The outbreak of the French Revolution occurred during his reign.
- His ruling over France also contained the end of the Versailles’ royal era.
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Marie Antoinette
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- Originally she was an Austrian princess.
- She married King Louis XVI at the age of 14 and became queen of France.
- She is famous for being overthrown by revolutionaries and publicly guillotined following the abolition of monarchy in France.
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Lord Cornwallis
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- Lord Charles Cornwallis participated in the first British expedition against Charleston and fought in the New York and Philadelphia campaigns.
- He surrendered at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.
- His postwar career demonstrated the resilience and power of the British Empire.
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National Assembly
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- This was any of various historical French parliaments or houses of parliament.
- From June 17 to July 9, 1789, National Assembly was the name of the revolutionary Assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate, during the French Revolution.
- The name has also often been used when referring to any constituent assembly.
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Reign of Terror
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- This was a period of the French Revolution from September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794.
- The Revolutionary government decided to make “Terror” around the world as a response to civil war spreading everywhere.
- They took harsh measures of all those who were suspected of being enemies of the Revolution during this time.
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Thermidorian Reaction
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- This is the parliamentary revolt which was initiated on July 27, 1794.
- This resulted in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre.
- It also resulted in the collapse of revolutionary fervor and the Reign of Terror.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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- He was one of the most successful generals of the French Revolution armies.
- He was the first emperor of France, and held this title from 1804 - 1814, and again in 1815.
- Eventually he was exiled 5000 miles away from Europe, on the island of St. Helena, where he lived until his death on May 5, 1821.
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Adam Smith
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- Scottish economist and philosopher, often known as the “Father of Economics / Capitalism”
- Wrote during early stages of Industrial Revolution (the physical outgrowth of the Scientific Revolution)
- The Wealth of Nations (1776) → pointed out weaknesses of mercantilism systems, advocated for cleared divisions of labor and for a free market economy, and suggests that market forces with lead to more efficient and effective production – benefiting both state and consumer
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Karl Marx
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- His theories led to the development of Marxism, and his ideas also served as the basis for communism
- Two of his works, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, are well remembered as his most famous.
- Born in Germany in 1818, and died in London England in 1883
