AP World ch. 21 – Flashcards
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The Enlightenment was the intellectual movement in which
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the methods and questions of the Scientific Revolution were applied to human society.
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Which of the following would John Locke have argued?
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People have the right to rebellion
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One of Rousseau's most radical ideas was that government
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authority rested on the consent of the governed.
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What were the goals of monarchs such as Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia in supporting the Enlightenment?
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Expalnsion of royal authority over localism, religious institutions, and the nobility.
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What two related problems did the British face after defeating the French in 1763?
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Limiting settlement in Amerindian lands and imposing taxes
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The Proclamation of 1763 was the British attempt to
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limit western expansion by colonists to land under their control.
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Which 1770 event radicalized public opinion throughout the American colonies?
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The "Boston Massacre"
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Common Sense, the pamphlet that stirred up anti-British sentiment on the eve of the American Revolution, was written by
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Thomas Paine
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The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 was crucial because it
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brought the French into the war.
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At Yorktown, the British general Cornwallis
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surrendered to General Washington
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In the Constitution, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person
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to give southern states more representatives.
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The French Revolution
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did not create an enduring form of representative democracy.
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As a result of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was
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beheaded.
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The system of social organization in France would have placed the clergy in
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the First Estate.
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Which French Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly?
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Third Estate
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The Tennis Court Oath was
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the declaration by the Third Estate that they would not convene again without a constitution.
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In response to economic depression, hunger, and high bread prices in 1789, a Parisian crowd
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attacked the Bastille.
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When the Parisian crowd marched to Versailles, it
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demanded the return of the royal family to Paris.
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The Reign of Terror
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made a new calendar without Sundays.
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The end of the Reign of Terror came in 1794 when
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Robespierre was arrested and executed by conservatives in the Convention.
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Napoleon's rise to power marked another modern form of government called
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popular authoritarianism
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Napoleon's invasion of ___ led to his decline.
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Russia
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After his escape from Elba, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of
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Waterloo.
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Saint Domingue was most important to France because
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it generated one-third of all French foreign trade.
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Aside from the brutal conditions on Saint Domingue, the island erupted in revolt because
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of the turmoil in revolutionary France.
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Who was Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture?
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The leader of a slave revolt in Saint Domingue
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Support for the Haitian revolution was found in the gens de couleur, who were
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free men and women of color in Haiti
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The Congress of Vienna was
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a meeting of delegates from Britain, Austria, Russia, and other European countries to restore order in post-Napoleonic Europe.
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In 1830, Greece won its independence from the
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Ottoman Empire.
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The revolutions of 1848 were widespread across Europe and were inspired by
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the desire for democratic reforms and national self-determination.
