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-a prison where there was rumored to be guns and gunpowder
-the revolters threw down the Bastille as a symbol of destroying the power of the monarchy |
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-the first 10 amendments of the constitution
-give people natural rihgts and protect them
-part of Great Compromise of ratifying the constitution |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| a committee that tried to unite the Colonies in their hatred for Britain |
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| a document stating the laws, rules, regulations, and restrictions of the US government |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen |
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| a document stating the laws, rules, regulations, and restrictions of the French government |
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| pride and devotion to one's country |
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| the group created by the third estate when they broke away from the estates general, they claimed to represent the French people |
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| belief that the fed. gov't should be stronger and more powerful than the state gov'ts |
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| when Bostonians, in an act of defiance of the British government's unfair taxes threw all the tea off a docked tea ship into Boston Harbour |
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began in England because they had
-natural resources (coal and iron)
-money from their colonies
-workers
-strong navy -> protection |
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| a supreme court case that ultimatley resulted in the supreme court having the power to declare a law unconstitutional |
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| fought between Napoleon (France) and the allied Duke of Wellington (Britain) and Blucher (Prussia). this battle ended Napoleon's power, and resulted in his exile to Elba, and a new monarch on France's throne. |
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| when parliament placed a tax on all official documents in the colonies |
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| when parliament placed a tax on all official documents in the colonies |
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| a document stating that all land west of the Appalachains were reserved for the Native Americains and closed for all settlers |
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continetal congress frorm the AofC got the NWTerritory, which was accepted as part of the US, and given the same rights as the people in the other 13 colonies. teh boundaries were:
-ohio river to the south
-Missippi river top the west
-Great Lakes/ Canada to north
-Appalachian mts/ ohio river to the east |
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| belief that god wanted the Americans to expand America’s borders from ocean to ocean. This lead them to purchase “barren” Alaska from Russia in 1867 and annex Hawaii in 1898. America continued to expand, applying the manifest destany to their expansionist values. |
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| Moderation in or total abstinence from the use of alcoholic beverages. This movement became one of the first organized reform movements in the United States when alcohol was blamed for crime, insanity, and the breakdown of the family. |
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| 1798 - America gained power to expel aliens. Sedition Act - frobade publishing anything bad about the president. Signed by Adams |
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| Amnesty granted to anyone who would pledge loyalty to union; military occupation of the south; civillians can't be tried in military courts. |
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| 1) penalized southern states that prevented blacks from voting 2) stopped former confederate leaders from serving in government 3) forbid fed. gov't from paying confederate debt 4) insured payment of debts owed to fed. gov't |
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| 1) replaced sect. 2 of 14th amendment; did not let black votes be left up to the state 2) congress could enforce amendment |
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| Allowed California to join the union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico could vote on whether to be free or slave, slave trade was banned in DC, and fed. marshalls had to help capture fugitive slaves. |
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| Missouri was admitted as a slave state; Maine broke off of Mass. as a free state. Slavery not allowed north of 36 30 lattitude line. |
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| 1854: Kansas and Nebraska, allowed citizens of territories to vote to be slave or free. Repealed the no slavery north of the line passed in Missouri Compromise. |
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| Regulate trade outside the colonies. Colonists thought Britain had a right to tax this way. |
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| A tax on internal affairs within the colonies. Colonies thought that Britain had no right to tax this way. |
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| The United States believed that anyone who wanted to should be allowed to trade with China. This was in response the the spheres of influence being established in China. The US was ignored. |
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| A form of imperialism where foriegn power gains exclusive economic rights within another country. |
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| Document passed by President Monroe that forbids any European colonies in America. |
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| TR's addition to the Monroe Doctrine that gave the US the right to police the Western Hemisphere. |
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| Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India |
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| Fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization in South Africa. |
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| Triple Entente, Allied Powers |
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| World War I alliance involving Britain, France, and Russia |
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| Triple Alliance, Central Powers |
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| World War I alliance involving Germany, Austria - Hungary, and Italy (who eventually switched powers and went to the Triple Entente) |
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| 1900, a group of boxers assaulted foreign communities across China |
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| domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
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| Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
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| a feeling of pride for your country |
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| conflict between Britain and China in 1839 over the opium trade |
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| process of adopting western ideas or ways |
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The official name for the French Parliment.
called to resolve the French Revolution. |
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| Lead by Danton and Robespierre, it was caused by the act of executing all those suspected of opposing the revolution. |
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| The Conservative party passed the Reform Bill of 1867, which gave middle-class men the right to vote. |
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| gave women the right to vote |
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| -In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France, which doubled the size of the United States. |
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| -annexed by congress from Mexico in 1845 |
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| -purchased from Russia in 1867 |
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M- Militarism- build up of ones army
A- Alliances- Triple Entente
-World War I alliance involving Britain, France, and Russia
- Triple Alliance
-World War I alliance involving Germany, Austria - Hungary, and Italy (who eventually switched powers and went to the Triple Entente)
I- Imperialism- imperialist and economic rivalries among European powers
N- Nationalism- pride and devotions to ones country |
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-An economic union created by Prussia
-It dismantled tariff barriers between many German states |
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| -an elected national legislature in Russia. |
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| -a violent mob attack on a Jewish community. |
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| -Realistic politics based on the needs of the state |
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-industrial leaders in the Meiji Restoration in Japan
-owned major companies etc.
-> new class in Japan |
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-survival of the fittest in human society
-excuse for imperialism, racism, sexism, corporations, etc. |
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-Ford invented it to make the cars
-sped up mass production and helped cause the industrial revolution
-> cheaper goods (supply and demand) |
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(Reich is german for empire)
-Second German Empire
-lead by Bismarck
-> made powerful by nationalism, had many colonies, industrialization, strong government, and strong army (best army in the world) |
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-was in France
-happened after the Revolution of 1848
-Napoleon 3 was the leader before the republic
*Thought he would bring back nationalism and Nap. Bonaparte
*Not a good leader and becomes a dictator
-Industrial revolution is occuring -> life is bad
-foreign affairs
*lost land in Italian unification
*lost Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war
*Napoleon is captured by the Prussians during the war
-> 3rd Republic is set up by Germany |
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| Problems of the third republic |
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-Paris Commune
*Ppl want to create a new, radical gov't
-> ppl revolt and are squashed by the gov't
-Can't set up the new gov't
*create a 2-house legislature that elects the president
*also had a prime minister
-Dreyfus Affair |
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-really bad peasantry
-usually farmers that work on the nobels land
-have to pay taxes and give nobels crops
-are bound to land
-> like sharecropping but different |
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