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Cabinet

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Hight ranking government leader who advise the head of the state

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Huguenots

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French Protestants whose freedom were protected by Henry IV

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Dissenters

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English Protestants who differed with the Church of England

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Indendants

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Royal officials who carried out the policies of Louis XIV

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Elector

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German princes who chose the Holy Roman emperor

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What type of government was created in England by the Glorious Revolution?

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Limited monarchy

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The Tories were an English political party that

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Supported religious toleration

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What was a major threat to the empire of Charles V

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Ottomans advancing across Europe

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Louis XIV appointed royal officials from the middle class to his bureaucracy because

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They helped to check the power of the nobles and church

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The long parliament met when Charles I requested funds to

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Suppress a Scottish rebellion

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When the Huguenots left France in the 1680s the departure

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Seriously hurt the French economy

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In 1598, the Edict of Nantes helped to ensure

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That French Protestants would not be persecuted

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Finance minister Jean Baptiste Colbert helped to make France the wealthiest stage in Europe by

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Imposing mercantilist policies to bolster the economy

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What was a major cause of conflict within the empire of King Charles V

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Ottoman forces overran much of southern France

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An important goal of Philip II of Spain was to

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Defend the Catholic church

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El Greco

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A Greek painter who was a master of the Spanish style

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Divine right

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The belief that a monarchs authority comes directly from God

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Which group consisted of dissenters who sought to change Catholics practices in the Church of England

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Puritans

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Under the rule of Philip II, which of these events helped to increase Spanish power

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The ottomans were defeated at Lepanto

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How did Louis XVI govern France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister

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He took complete control of the government

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Proposed the idea of separation of powers in government

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Montesquieu

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Grand ornate style of art and architecture popular during the age of Louis XIV

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Baroque

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The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which enlightenment thinker

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A Montesquieu

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What statement best describes Voltaire's novel Candide

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Exposes corruption and hypocrisy

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Enlightenment writes sometimes tried to avoid censorship by

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Disguising their ideas as fiction

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Elegant compositions by Handel, Hayden, and Mozart reflected a new musical style of the enlightenment known as

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Classical

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During the Enlightenment, what argument did government and church officials use to justify their war of censorship

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A strict class system ensures social justice

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The idea of separation of powers in the constitution was borrowed from enlightenment thinker

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Montesquieu

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The storming of the Bastille occurs on this date

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July 14 1789

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Who made up the 1st estate second estate third estate

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Clergy/ church Nobility Everyone that was lower

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The reason for the storming of the Bastille

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was that they felt like they needed to find themselves

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The minder ate political party were

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The Girondists

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The murder of Marat was committed by

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Charlotte Corday

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The first victim of extreme violence was

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The caption of the guard of the Bastille the mans home was Bernard

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The era of the great terror begins with the execution of this man

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Danton

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Robespierre replaces the Catholic God with his deity

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Godet of reason

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Napoleons first wife was

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Josephine

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The napoleons can code was a reform of the nations

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Legal system

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When Napoleon abdicates following the battle of nations, a new King is placed on the throne. Who is the king of France

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Louis XVIII

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Napoleons victory at this battle is considered one of the finest in military history

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Austerlitz

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Under the Napoleonic code men

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Regained complete authority over their wives

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Napoleons overthrow of the government was referred as to the

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Brumaire coup

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The congress of Vienna promoted the principle of legitimacy by

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Restoring hereditary monarchies

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After overthrowing the directory in 1799, Napoleon and his followers set up a three man governing board called

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Consulate

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What war tactic helped the Russians defeat Napoleon

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Scorched earth policy

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The French intellectual responsible for deciphering the Rosetta Stone was

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F. Champollion

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Napoleon is exiled to this island following his defeat of the battle of nations

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Elba

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The two generals that did more than anyone else to defend the French grand army of more than 600,000 soldiers were

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Famine and Winter

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A major goal of the decisions makers at the Vienna was to

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Suppress revolutionary uprisings throughout Europe

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Popular vote by ballot

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Plebiscite

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The leader of Russia during the napoleonic code era was

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Alexander I

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The continental system was a form of

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Economic warfare

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Which country was able to remain outside napoleons European empire

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Britain

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At the battle of Waterloo the British and Prussian armies were led by these commanders

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Wellington/Blucher

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In 1813 an alliance of Russia, Britain, Austria, and Prussia defeats Napoleon at the battle of

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Leipzig

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Napoleons final defeat was at the

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Battle of waterloo

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Guerrilla warfare

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War tactic involving hit and run raids

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Continental system

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War tactic in which Napoleon closed european ports to British goods

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Turnpike

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A private toll road

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Enterprise

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A business organization in areas such as shipping, mining, or factories

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Tenement

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An apartment building for the working class

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James watt

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Improved the steam engine in the late 1700s

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Proletariat

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The working class

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Robert Owen

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Utopian socialist who set a model community in new Lanark, Scotland

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Anesthetic

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A drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist

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Urbanization

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The movement of people to cities

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Entrepreneurs

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Those who manage and assume the financial risk of new businesses

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Jeremy Bentham

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British philosopher and economist who advocated utilitarianism

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During the industrial revolution, life changed in what basic way

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People migrated from rural areas to cities

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The Botton gin was a machine that could

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Separate seeds from raw cotton

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The Luddites were a

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Labor organisation

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The greatest happiness for the greatest number was a goal of

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utilitarianism

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Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it

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Created prosperity for a few and poverty for many

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Abraham Darby mad better quality iron by

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Using coal to smelt the iron

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Steam became a efficient power source because of improvements made by

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James watt

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The development of steam power enabled the growth of

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Railroads

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In what way were railroads an improvement over canals

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Railroads did not have to follow a course of a river

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The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the

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Working class

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Which of the following was a long term result of the industrial revolution

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A general rise in the standard living

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The first factories developed in what industry

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Textiles

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Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because

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Vaccinations were not yet effective enough to yo control disease

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Germany formed a social democracy in the 1860s

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Change gradually from capitalism to socialism

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Land enclosed in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in

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Large farms

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The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in

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Britain by proving cheap labor

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The putting out system was a method of

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producing cloth in Individual homes

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Which of the following was a long term result of the industrial revolution

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A garner all rise in the standard of living

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Recession

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A period of time in which economic activity slows

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Mulattoes

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Latin Americans of African and European heritage

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Radicals

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People who favor extreme change

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Ideology

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A system of thought and belief

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Napoleon III

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Seized power in France using a plebiscite to win public approval

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Louise Kossuth

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A journalist who led a nationalist push for reform in Hungary

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Peninsulares

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Spanish born Latin Americans of the highest social class

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Autonomy

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Self rule

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Mestizos

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Latin Americans of narrative American and European heritage

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Louis Philippe

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France's citizen king

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Father Miguel Hidalgo's el Grito de Delores was a

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Call to fight for Mexican independence

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What was the result of the 1830 revolt in Poland

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Russian forces crushed the revolt

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Conservatives of the early 1800s believed in

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restoration monarchies

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Louis Philippe was called citizen King because

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He owned his throne to the people

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Creating a homeland for people who shared a common heritage was a major goal of

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Nationalists

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The concert of Europe was a agreement to

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Support the old odder

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What event in Europe in 1808 encourage widespread rebellion in Latin America

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Napoleon ousted the Spanish King

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Uprisings sparked by the dismantling of the Charter of French Liberties forced the addiction of

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Charles X

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Toussaint L' Ouverture led a revolt the eventually resulted in independence for

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Haiti

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What event spurred Simon Bolivar and his followers to begin the struggle for independence

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Napoleons occupation of Spain

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The second republic France ended when

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Louis Napoleon became emperor

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What major event occurred fury get February Days I francs in 1848

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Louis Philippe abdicated

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Milos Obrenovic was able to win Russian support for Serb independence because

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shared a common language and religion

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Which revolutionary leader helped Argentina win freedom from Spain

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Jose de San Martin

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In the 1700s Latin American political and social life was dominated by the

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Peninsulares

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By 1750 Prussia and Austria

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Wee competing to develop their overseas empires

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One effect of the Thirty years war was

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The severe depopulation of Europe

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How did Peter the Great gain territory for Russia along the Baltic Sea

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He won a long war with Sweden

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What did Maria Theresa do to strengthen the Hapsburg empire

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She drive the Prussians out of Silesia

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Peter the Great waged war against the Ottoman Empire to

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Gain a warm water port on the Black Sea

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What was the result of the treaty known as the Peace of Westphalia in 1648

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Poland was divide amount Russia, Prussia, and Austria

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Under the rule of Catherine the Great

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Conditions improved for sustain peasants

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How did Fredrick William I help to unify Prussia after the death of his father in 1713

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He promoted religious tolerance throughout Prussia

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Divine right

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The belief that a monarch's authority comes directly from God

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Boyars

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Landowning Russian nobles under Peter the Great

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Partition

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The division of Poland among Russia, Prussia, and Austria

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Mercenaries

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Soldiers for hire

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Electors

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German princes who chose the a Holy Roman emperor

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Romanov

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Russia

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Bourbon

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France

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Hapsburg

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Austria

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Hohenzollern

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Prussia

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Stuart

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England

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