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Causes of absolutism

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  • decline of feudalism as middle class grew and urbanization increased
  • powers became more centralized and national kingdoms emerged
  • colonies increased wealth of kingdoms and monarchs
  • Renaissance and Refformation broke down church authority
  • religious and territorial conflict created fear/uncertainty, leading to growth of national armies
  • monarchs levied taxes, peasants revolted and monarchs imposed tigher authority over society
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Age of Absolutism

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absolute monarchs held all power within their countries and wanted to control all aspects of society

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Effects of Absolutism

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  • rulers regulated religious worship and social gatherings to control the spread of ideas
  • rulers increased the size of their courts to appear more powerful
  • rulers created more beauracratics to control their countries’ economies
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Three Estates

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FIRST ESTATE: the clergy of Church
SECOND ESTATE: nobility
THIRD ESTATE: middle class (bourgeoisie), peasants, made up 97% percent of the population

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The Enlightenment changes

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Political Change: move from feudalism to absolue monarchs
Social Change: more social mobility with capitalism and a development of the middle class
Intellectual and Social Change: shift from using religion based ideas to reason

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Characteristics of the Enlightenment

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  • reason over religion
  • natural laws, popular sovereignty through a social contract between people and the government
  • individual freedom
  • equality (more like eqau-LITTY amirite?)
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Estates General

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an assembly of representatives from all 3 estates to approve the new tax

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National Assembly

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Third Estates made laws and enacted reforms

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Tennis Court Oath

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pledge made by the National Assembly where they vowed to continue meeting until they made a new constitution

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Storming of the Bastille

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Le quatorze juillet

A mob searching for gunpowder stormed the Bastille prison in Paris

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The Great Fear

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Wave of senseless panic that spread through France after the storming of the Bastille

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Mattie Antoinette

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The queen of France. French people called her Madame Defecit because of her extravagant spending

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

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Statement of revolutionary ideas

Men are born with free and equal rights

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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Reforms targeting the Catholic Church

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Constitution of 1791

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Created a limited constitutional monarchy

Created a new legislative body-the Legislative Assembly

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Émigrés

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Nobles who had fled France and wanted a return to the Old Regime

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Sans-culottes

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Parisian workers who wanted greater revolutionary changes

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What did the National Convention do?

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  • abolished monarchy
  • declared France a republic
  • Jacobins took control
  • Louis XVI was executed
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Jacobins

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Radical political group involved in making government changes

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Maximilien Robespierre

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Jacobin leader who gained power

Dictator, his rule was called the Reign of Terror

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Peninsulares

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Colonial officials from Spain or Portugal in Latin America

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Huguenots

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French Protestants who made up about 5% of the population
Louis XIV cracked down on them, trying to strip them from religious and civil liberties
Huguenots who continued practicing their religion were put to death and many left France

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Divine right

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God appointed the king, and they had the highest say

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Philosophes

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French social thinkers during the enlightenment

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Thomas Hobbes

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English philosopher
Thought that without government , people would live in a state of nature
Social contract
Wanted one ruler

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Social contract

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Agreement between the government and the people, both side give up something

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Voltaire

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Philosophe

Disagreed with French monarchy and Roman Catholic Church

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Wrote “The Social Contract”

All members should be a part of creating laws

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Creoles

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Resented the control Spanish and Portuguese had over them
Wanted to displace peninsulares and retain their privileged position
Revolts inspired by enlightenment ideas

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Mestizos and mulattos

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Mixed ancestry

Made up the majority of the population

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Simón Bolívar

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Led the movement for independence in South America

Wanted to bring Spanish colonies together like in America

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José de San Martín

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Argentine leader who lead revolution

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Gran Colombia

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Once Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador were independent, they formed a large republic

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Father Hidalgo

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Rebelled against Spanish rule in Mexico

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Augustín de Iturbide

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Creole general who declared independence from Spain

Declared himself emperor of Mexico