history

French Revolution causes

resentment by the third state, enlightenment, no money, king louis SUCKS

Storming of the Bastille

Third-estate revolutionaries let all the prisoners out of the Bastille,

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Tennis Court Oath

The third estate established a "national assembly"

Said they won't give up until they get a new constitution

Declaration of the Rights of Men and the Citizen

Stated that the government was supposed to protect people

REIGN OF TERROR

Everyone DIES

Maximillion Robespierre (a Jacobin) leads the committee of "public safety"

Says that anyone who doesn't agree dies

Just starts chopping everyone's heads off

Rein ended once all of his friends decided he was going too CRAZY (his head \= was chopped)

Coup d'etat

Overthrow the state!

Napoleon becomes 1st "console"/ leader

Napoleonic Code

Napoleon's "greatest achievement"

List of Laws (a little good but mostly bad)

No freedom of speech/press

Slavery in Caribbean

Napoleons Empire COLLAPSES

Continental System

Supposed to make Europe self-sufficient (didn't work at ALL)

Peninsular War

Napoleon tried to go to Portugal and ends up giving the Portuguese throne to his brother

Guerrilla fighters are better than Napoleon's army and Napoleon gets overthrown (his brother LEFT)

Battle of Waterloo

Final Defeat

Loses to British and Prussian army

Napoleon is EXILED

Congress of Vienna

Meeting to fix Europe

Alliances were made and Europe is "fixed"

Conservatives were happy (everyone else wasn't)

Radicals

Wanted BIG changes to government and social structures

Basically what the French revolutionaries wanted

Conservatives

The wealthy, property owner

Wanted monarchies

Liberals

Middle-class businessman

Limited democracy (parliament)

Only educated/landowners vote

Industrial Revolution

-Agricultural Revolution

New tools were made

Not as many people are needed, so they go to factories

More crops were produced

More money was made (economic boost)

-England is the first country to industrialize

-Textiles

What the factory workers produced

-Cottage Industry

People making things in their homes

You put the legs on the doll I put on the head, etc, etc.

-George Stephenson

Ultimate train guy! (invented them)

-Urbanization

No more farms! NYC!

-Industrialization spreads

People see it works and adapt

-Industrialization shifts power

America and Britain are now AMAZING

Asia and Africa don't do ANYTHING and get left in the DUST

Laissez-faire

People were saying gov. Shouldn't control the economy

Want capitalism

Adam Smith

Professor who fought for liberalism

Capitalism

People control economy

socialism

Gov. controls the economy

People make money for their country not themselves

Karl Max

Marxism/communism

Wrote the communist manifesto

All history is the history of class struggle

Frederich Engles

Basically Karl Marx

Bourgeois/Proletariat

-UNIONS

Protect worker rights

-COLLECTIVE BARAGINING

EVERYONE wants one thing

We vs I

-STRIKES

People don't go to work because they are in BAD conditions

Nationalism

-INDEPENDENCE OF GREECE

Russia, France, and Britain supported the Greek people's plea for democracy

France & Britain supported customs

Russia supported the Greek Christians

The first group to gain independence through a nationalist movement

Revolutions in the '30s

Nationalists tried to revolt but conservatives crushed them because they were unorganized.

Belgium succeeded (broke from Netherlands)

Risorgimento

United Italy into one cultural/political country

Bismarck

Prime Minister of Prussian empire

Was practical and did not believe in idealism (realpolitik)

Was very good at provoking war to spread nationalism throughout Prussia

Provokes France into war so Germany would unify against a common enemy (they win btw)

Kaiser

Emperor of Germany

1st one is Wilhelm the 1st

Imperalism

-CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

Europeans wanted to spread their Christianity to the rest of the world

New Imperialism

Increased imperial powers

Rapid land acquisition (3x as fast)

New tech

Let imperial powers conquer Africa and Asia

Direct v Indirect

-DIRECT

When a country sends officials to rule to the country

-INDIRECT

When a country lets the vanquished country rule itself but it must follow the leading country