UNIT 6 REVIEW

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UNIT 6 REVIEW

• WORLD HISTORY

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(1) How did the new ideas and scientific advances
challenge the church?
Superstition fear replaced w/ reason knowledge
(2) Instead of superstition, on what did people
focus during the Enlightenment?
Reason (rationalism)
(3) Who was the first to state that the sun was
at the center of the universe?
Copernicus
(4) What did Galileo observe about the heavenly
bodies?
Composed of material substance like Earth not
just orbs of light
(5) What did Newton develop?
Laws of Motion (incl. gravity, inertia)
(6) What were Montesquieus two major ideas?
Checks balances separation of powers
(7) Who believed that the govt should be created
by the will of the people?
Rousseau
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(8) What is laissez-faire?
Econ. sys. in which govt. regulate the economy
(9) How is laissez-faire more productive than a
govt.-controlled economy?
Allows NATURAL LAWS of SUPPLY DEMAND to operate
freely
(10) What did Britain become at the end of the
Seven Years War?
Britain gained control of India North America,
making it the greatest colonial pwr.
(11) The Scientific Revolution Enlightenment
led to what?
American Revolution
(12) The Boston Tea Party was a protest against
what?
A tax on tea imposed by the British Parliament on
American colonists
(13) What problem did American colonists have
with taxes?
The Colonies had no representation in British
Parliament
(14) What did France do to get revenge on the
British?
Aided the American colonies in struggle against
British during the Am. Revolution
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(15) Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
Superstition fear replaced w/ reason knowledge
(16) What is federalism?
Sharing of power b/w state governments the
national government
(17) What are the three branches of US govt.?
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
(18) What did Galileo observe about the heavenly
bodies?
RAPPS Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech
(19) Whose ideas about natural rights are found
in the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
(20) What were the causes of the French
revolution?
Inequality relics of feudalism, American
Revolution, financial problems (spent a lot of
money on Seven Years War), Enlightenment Ideas
(Rousseau Locke), Weak King (Louis XVII)
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(21) Which estate wasnt exempt from taxation?
Third (Bourgeoisie peasants)
(22) What was the issue with the voting structure
of the Estates-General?
Each estate got 1 vote, meaning 1st 2nd Estates
could always outvote the 3rd
(23) What did the Third Estate declare themselves?
National Assembly
(24) What did the Tennis Court Oath state?
Vowed to continue to meet until they create a new
French constitution
(25) Why did the people attack the Bastille?
They were looking for gunpowder
(26) What did the Declaration of the Rights of
Man proclaim?
Equal rights for all men, but no political rights
for women
(27) Who made Louis XVI accept the new National
Assembly?
Thousands of armed Parisian women descended on
the palace and captured him his family
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(28) Why did women of Paris march to Versailles
what were they upset about?
Price of flour too high lack of bread demanded
to see king
(29) What was the result of the womens march to
Versailles?
Force king to accept Declaration of Rights of
Man forced to move to palace in Paris
(30) Over what issue did the Girondin the
Mountain disagree?
Girondins leaned toward keeping king alive,
Mountain wanted king executed
(31) What happened to King Louis XVI?
Beheaded by guillotine
(32) What was the name of the new killing machine?
Guillotine
(33) Who was Jean-Paul Marat?
Leader of sans-culottes advocated for violence
in his newspaper
(34) Who were the sans-culottes?
Ordinary patriots wihout fine clothes (means
without breeches)
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(35) What was created to defend France from all
threats?
Committee of Public Safety
(36) Who was the brutal leader of the Committee
of Public Safety?
Robespierrre
(37) Time period in France where thousands were
arrested and killed
Reign of Terror
(38) What was the purpose of the Reign of Terror?
Arrest and kill people thought to be enemies of
the republic/revolution
(39) What brought an end to the Reign of Terror?
Execution of Robespierre
(40) What controversial policy did the Republic
of Virtue initiate?
Pursued a policy of dechristianization, going so
far as to adopt a new calendar
(41) Napoleon committed a coup detat against
what?
The Directory
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(42) Why did the people of France welcome
Napoleon?
He promised order after the chaos of the
Revolution
(43) What was Napoleons greatest achievement?
Napoleonic Code
(44) What did the Napoleonic Code do?
Made laws uniform (the same) across the nation
(45) What were the three parts of Napoleons
empire?
French Empire, Dependent States, Allied States
(46) What nation was Frances greatest enemy
during the Napoleonic Wars?
Great Britain
(47) What did the Continental System do?
Restricted trade with Great Britain
(48) What are three reasons why Napoleons empire
collapsed?
Invasion of Russia, nationalism, Great Britains
survival
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(49) Napoleons major mistake was his invasion of
which country?
Russia
(50) How did the Russians defeat Napoleons Grand
Army?
Retreating hundreds of miles burning their own
villages and countryside
(51) Napoleon was defeated in what battle?
Battle of Waterloo
(52) Who defeated Napoleon at that battle?
Duke of Wellington (led British troops)
(53) The peace settlement after the defeat of
Napoleon took place where?
Congress of Vienna
(54) What country did the Congress of Vienna try
to contain?
France
(55) Metternich and the Congress of Vienna wanted
to restore what?
Lawful monarchs
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(56) What was created to keep the peace
stability in Europe at the Congress of Vienna?
Concert of Europe
(57) What were the goals of the Congress of
Vienna?

1. REDRAW the map of Europe
2. RESTORE monarchies
3. STOP ALL revolutions
4. MAINTAIN peace stability

(58) What does the principle of legitimacy state?
Monarchs or families who had been in power prior
to Napoleon French Revolution were restored to
power
(59) What does the principle of intervention
state?
Great Powers have a right to send troops into
countries to put down revolutions and restore
legitimate monarchs