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23 Cards in this Set
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Marie Gouze/ Olympe de Gouges
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campained to raise standing of women in France, published Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
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Two effects of the revolutions
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spread Enilightenment ideas and helped consolidate national states
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Enlightenment ideas
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freedom, equality, and popular sovereignty
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What did revolutionaries want their government to be like?
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popular soverienty...consent of the governed
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What did philosophes oftenb refer to government as?
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contract between rulers and the ruled
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Locke's view on popular soverienty
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promoted it; if people didn't like the ruler they could replace him/her; power should be in the people
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Voltaire's view on freedom (mainly religious)
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resented persecution of religious minorities and censorship by royal officials
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Jean Jacques Rousseau thoughts of equility
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condemned legal and social of aristocrats (they didn't make a bigger contribution to society and the common); members of society are collectively sovereign
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What caused Americans to dislike Bitish rule?
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financial problems from the 7 years war; heavy taxes; enforment of navigation laws
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What did Americans do to rebel against British rule?
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boycotted British products; physically attacked British officials; protests (Boston Tea Party)
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What did colonists think they should have the right to do?
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govern themselves; "no taxation without representation"
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Continental Congress
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coordinated the colonies' resistance to British policies
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What begun the Revolutionary war?
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British troops and colonial militia fighting at Lexington
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What did the Declaration of independence assert?
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all men are created equal; Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness; gave people power to insitute a new government if needed
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Battle at Yorktown
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Last Battle; Washington vs. Cornwallis; 20 days
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Peace of Paris
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treaty with US and Britian where America was recognized as independent
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What was the goal of the French Revolution
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expel the ancien regime and replace it with new political, social, and cultural structures.
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What was one of the reasons the French Revolution started (taxes)?
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King Louis XVI raised taxes on the nobility instead of the already heavily taxed peasantry
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Estates General
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French assembly that represented all the people in groups known as estates; three estates: clergy, nobles; common
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What happened when King Louis called the Estates General into session?
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common representatives demanded political and social reform
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What did the third estate of the common people do after weeks of debate with the other two estates?
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seceded; declared themselves a National assembly; wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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Convention
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legislative body elected by universal manhood suffrage; abolished the monarchy and proclaimed France a republic
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What did the Convention do to enforce their rule?
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used the guillotine to kill anybody who didn't agree with them (aristocrats and monarchs)
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