APWH Unit 5 1750 - 1870 "Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World" "The
Early Industrial Revolution" "Nation Building & Economic Transformation in the
Americas" "Africa, India, & the New British Empire" "Land Empires in the Age of
Imperialism" "The New Power Balance" "The New Imperialism"
Seven Years War 1756-1763 - ✔✔-England vs. France
England wins India and midwest territories in the US
Both countries raised taxes
The Englightenment - ✔✔-liberal movement that applied Scientific Revolution to everyday life; most
philosophers were French
John Locke - ✔✔-most influential to Revolutions/Declarations; believed people are born good, have
natural rights, limited government, citizens have duty to overthrow bad governments
Jean Jacques Rousseau - ✔✔-believed in minimum government control, collective good, hated
oppression, valued the majority
Thomas Hobbes - ✔✔-not as liberal; wrote Leviathan; believed in social order because people were born
bad
Montesquieu - ✔✔-believed in division of government powers
Voltaire - ✔✔-inspired 1st Amendment: freedom of religion, speech, and press; was against monarchy,
brought ideas from China
despots - ✔✔-Catherine the Great of Russia & Frederick of Prussia; patronized the Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin - ✔✔-believed in earning opportunity through merit not heredity
,English colonial problems post-1763 - ✔✔-conflict with Natives over fur trade / taxation without
representation / Proclamation of 1763 & Quebec Act 1774
new colonial taxes - ✔✔-Stamp Act: on everyday products
Townshend Act: on goods from Europe used in small businesses
Tea tax: East Indian Company had monopoly on Indian tea
Sons of Liberty - ✔✔-at front of protests against British
Boston Massacre 1770 - ✔✔-colonial propaganda against the British; 5 civilians killed by British soldiers
"Common Sense" - ✔✔-written by Thomas Paine to spur revolution among colonists
Intolerable Acts - ✔✔-punishment for NE colonies after Boston Tea Party.
1- Boston harbor shut down/regulated by British
2- Marshall law (British military runs government)
Continental Congress - ✔✔-1775; formed army with General Washington; tried to implement colonial
currency
loyalists - ✔✔-supported by slaves & Amerindians
American allies - ✔✔-France (navy, training, resources)
Spain & Netherlands (weapons)
Battle of Yorktown - ✔✔-1778, Washington defeats Cornwallis
, Treaty of Paris 1783 - ✔✔-officially ended the American Revolution, Britain recognized US as
independent
Articles of Confederation - ✔✔-aimed at keeping national government weak, short term president, no
taxes; accomplished nothing
Constitutional Convention 1787 - ✔✔-formed new and improved US Constitution: taxes, majority vote,
centralized
Estates General - ✔✔-First Estate: clergy
Second Estate: nobles
Third Estate: peasants, merchants, artisans, bourgeoisie 98% of population
National Assembly - ✔✔-collectively unifies Third Estate, wrote up Declaration of Rights of Man, was
called for arrest
"French disease" - ✔✔-Austria and Prussia threatened to interfere in French Revolution, National
Assembly declared war on them in 1971
Storming of Bastille - ✔✔-July 14, 1789:
beginning of French Revolution
guillotine - ✔✔-"humane" execution method, symbol of violent French revolution
The Terror - ✔✔-1793-1794: Robespierre's ruthless, bloody, dictatorial rule of the French Revolution
National Convention - ✔✔-radical liberal group (Jacobins & Girondists & more extreme Mountain
faction), hated the Church