 | Term | Definition |
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Louis XVI |
king in France from 1774-1792 executed during French Revolution |
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Marie Antonette |
Queen of France from 1774-1792 also executed during the French Revolution |
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Napoleon Bonparte |
26 yr. old general |
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Versailles |
where the Kings palace was |
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Paris |
capital of France |
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Bastille |
big stone prison fortress |
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Toussaint L' Ouverture |
a non-slavery group that believed slavery was wrong |
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Miguel Hidalgo |
Mexican prie. and revolutionary who led a revolt that started the Mexican War of independence. |
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Jose Maria Moreles |
a prie. and revoloutionary after Hidalgo |
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Augustin de Iturbide |
officer in Spanish army |
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Simon Bolivar |
leader that struggled in life ofver war |
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Jose de San Martin |
liborator who lead revolutions in Argentina and Chile |
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Hispaniola |
large Caribean island settled in by Spaniards in 1493 present day island of Dominican Republic and Haiti |
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Delores |
twn in Central Mexico where Miguel Hidalgo began Mexico's independence movement. |
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Venezuela |
country in northern south America on the Caribean Sea |
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John Kay |
invented the "flying shuttle" (allowed workers to work twice as fast as with the hand loom) |
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James Hargreaves |
invented the "spinning jenny" (allowed workers to spin 16 spidles at once) |
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Richard Arkwrite |
invented the "water frame" (waterproofed device for making thread) |
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Edmund Carturight |
invented the "power loom" (speeded up production of textiles tremendously) |
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James Watt |
invented the "steam engine" (gave a boost to industrial revolution) |
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Karl Marx |
German philosopher and economist; his ideas began to be known as Marxism |
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Mathew C. Perry |
Commodore who commanded 4 war ships to Japan in 1853 |
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Meiji |
emperor who had long been powerless then regained his power |
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Tokyo |
replacing name for Edo, Tokyo means "eastern capital" in Japanese, Tokyo became the new capital of Japan |
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Maximilien Robepierre |
a revolution leader that became the most powerful man in the new government |
