Abeka 10th Grade World History Unit 5 (Chapters 17-23) Review
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kk167 on March 7, 2012
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Abeka World History, World History, History
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This a review for the third-quarter nine-week exam over Abeka World History and Cultures Unit 5 (Chapters 17-23).
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Louis XIV | the "Sun King" who said "L'etat cest moi" (I am the state.") |
| bureaucracy | term meaning "men who sit at desks" |
| Samuel de Champlain | the "Father of New France" |
| Palace of Versailles | palace built by Louis XIV for nobility |
| Quebec | the first permanent French colony in America |
| Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet | men who explored the central Mississippi River |
| War of the Spanish Succession | the most costly war of Louis XIV's reign |
| Treaty of Utrecht | treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession |
| Age of Enlightenment | time when men attempted to apply unaided human philosophy to all areas of man's life in order to establish a new social order |
| Voltaire | the "Father of the Enlightenment" who advocated rationalism |
| rationalism | the belief that man's reason is the sole criterion for truth |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French Enlightenment philosopher known as the "Father of French Romanticism" |
| romanticism | the belief that man's emotions and imagination are the basis of truth, and that "Man is naturally good, but society is bad." |
| Denis Diderot | editor of the "Encyclopedia" |
| Louis XIV | French king who said "Apres moi le deluge" ("After me the deluge" |
| clergy | made up the "First Estate" |
| nobility | made up the "Second Estate" |
| Tennis Court Oath | oath in which the National Assembly vowed to continue meeting until a national constitution had been written |
| July 14, 1789 | date when the Bastille was stormed |
| Jacobin Club | radical French club who met in a monastery |
| Right | conservative side of the Constituent Assembly |
| Left | radical side of the Constituent Assembly |
| Center | side of the Constituent Assembly without set principles |
| Maximilian Robespierre | prominent and influential member of the Jacobin Club and leader of the Committee of Public Safety |
| guillotine | a device for chopping off human heads |
| Deism | belief that God is an impersonal being Who is revealed only in nature |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | powerful French leader born in Corsica who conquered much of Europe for the French |
| plebiscite | an election in which the people express their will |
| "Code Napoleon" | Napoleon's law codes |
| Battle of Trafalgar | naval battle in which the British navy destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet |
| Lord Horatio Nelson | the greatest naval hero the world has ever known |
| Battle of Austerlitz | the greatest victory of Napoleon's career |
| Marie Louise | Napoleon's second wife |
| Czar Alexander I | Russian leader who withdrew his country from the Continental System |
| Battle of Leipzig | "Battle of Nations" in which the combined forces of Europe defeated Napoleon's new army |
| Elba | first island to which Napoleon was executed |
| Waterloo | city in Belgium where Napoleon met his final defeat |
| Duke of Wellington | British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo |
| St. Helena | final island to which Napoleon was executed |
| 1815 | date at which Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo |
| James I | English king who believed in the "divine right of kings" |
| Pilgrims | group of Separatists who fled to Holland and eventually America due to persecution under James I in England |
| 1611 | date when the King James Version Bible was completed |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement in the New World |
| 1620 | date when Plymouth was established |
| 1630 | date when Massachusetts was established |
| Roundheads | those who supported Parliament during the reign of Charles I |
| Cavaliers | those who supported the king during the reign of Charles I |
| Oliver Cromwell | Puritan leader of the Roundheads |
| Rump Parliament | parliament that executed Charles I for treason |
| Protectorate | type of government under Oliver Cromwell |
| Treaty of Dover | treaty that obtained tolerance for English Catholics |
| Charles II | king who issued the Treaty of Dover and became a Catholic |
| Philipp Spener | Lutheran leader of the Pietists |
| Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf | leader of the Moravians |
| Hernhut | Moravian "headquarters" |
| George Whitefield | the best known Great Awakening evangelists |
| empiricism | the belief that experience is the only source of knowledge |
| David Hume | promoted skepticism |
| skepticism | the idea that to know truth is impossible |
| Charles Wesley | invented the Methodists |
| Robert Raikes | "Father of the Sunday School Movement" who started the first Sunday school |
| John Howard | worked to improve prison conditions |
| William Carey | "Father of Modern Missions" |
| Edmund Burke | "Father of Modern Conservatism" |
| Sir William Blackstone | leader authority on English law during the eighteenth century |
| Samuel Johnson | greatest literary figure of the eighteenth century |
| Captain James Cook | discovered New Zealand, New Guinea, Australia, and the Hawaiian Islands |
| George I | began the Hanoverian line of kings |
| Robert Walpole | the first true prime minister of Britain |
| George III | king who colonized Georgia, the thirteenth English colony |
| revolutionary nationalism | a desire to break loose from established government and rule one's self |
| anarchy | political disorder and violence; lack of government |
| Immanuel Kant | advocated idealism |
| idealism | basing one's action upon what one wishes were true rather than on reality |
| G.W.F. Hegel | introduced dialectic thinking |
| dialectic thinking | the idea that one fact or idea works against a contradictory fact or idea to create a "new fact" |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher | the "Father of Theological Liberalism" |
| modernists | religious liberals |
| "higher criticism" | the idea of questioning the Bible and its authority |
| Czar Alexander I, Lord Castlereagh, Comte de Talleyrand, and Prince von Metternich | the key diplomats at the Congress of Vienna |
| Prince von Metternich | the "Prince of Diplomats" |
| Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain | the countries in the "Quadruple Alliance" |
| Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, Great Britain, and France | the countries in the "Quintuple Alliance" |
| Creoles | Spaniards born in the colonies |
| mestizos | Latin Americans of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry |
| Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins | won Chilean independence |
| Simon Bolivar | "The Liberator" |
| Treaty of Adrianople | treaty recognizing Greek independence |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | organized "Young Italy" |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | member of "Young Italy" who organized the "Red Shirts" |
| Victor Emmanuel II | first king of a united Italy |
| Otto von Bismark | chancellor of Prussia |
| Prussia | won the Franco-Prussian war |
| France and Russia | countries in the Dual Alliance |
| France and Great Britain | countries in the Entente Cordial |
| Britain, France, and Russia | countries in the Triple Alliance |
| Louis Blanc | advocated democratic socialism |
| Ernest Rutherford | the "Father of Nuclear Science" |
| Max Planck | proposed the quantum theory |
| Albert Einstein | German who proposed the theory of relativity |
| Henry Ford | invented the Model-T and the assembly line |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | invented the dirigible |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | made the first successful airplane flight |
| KDKA | first commercial broadcasting station |
| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | assassinated Austrian heir |
| July 28, 1914 | date when World War I began |
| Verdun | fortress-city defended by the French |
| "tommies" | nickname for British soldiers |
| T.E. Lawrence | led the Arabs against the Turks |
| Battle of Jutland | most important naval battle of World War I |
| Manfred von Richthofen | "Red Baron" |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | American ace |
| Zimmerman note | note proposing an alliance between Mexico and Germany at the expense of the U.S. |
| 1917 | year when Congress declared war on Germany |
| John J. Pershing | commander of the American Expeditionary Force |
| "doughboys" | nickname for American soldiers |
| November 11,1918 | date when World War I ended |
| Gross National Product | total output of goods and services |
| capitalism | free enterprise system |
| Thomas Alva Edison | the greatest inventor in history |
| John Dalton | proposed the atomic theory |
| George Washington | first President of the U.S. |
| Jethro Tull | invented the seed drill |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the reaper |
| Robert Fulton | invented the first practical steamship |
| Cyrus Field | laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable |
| Samuel Morse | perfected the electric telegraph |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
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