AP World History Exam - Unit 5 Latest -

AP World History Exam - Unit 5 ( Latest -

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• Seven Years War 1756-1763

Answer: England vs. France England wins India and midwest territories in the US

Both countries raised taxes

• The Englightenment

Answer: liberal movement that applied Scientific Revolution to everyday life; most philosophers were French

• John Locke

Answer: 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

Answer: believed in minimum government control, collective good, hated

oppression, valued the majority

• Thomas Hobbes

Answer: not as liberal; wrote Leviathan; believed in social order because people were born bad

• Montesquieu

Answer: believed in division of government powers

• Voltaire

Answer: inspired 1st Amendment: freedom of religion, speech, and press; was against monarchy, brought ideas from China

• Despots

Answer: Catherine the Great of Russia & Frederick of Prussia; patronized the Enlightenment

• Benjamin Franklin

Answer: believed in earning opportunity through merit not heredity

• English colonial problems post-1763

Answer: conflict with Natives over fur trade / taxation without representation / Proclamation of 1763 & Quebec Act 1774 1 / 3

• new colonial taxes

Answer: 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

Answer: at front of protests against British

• Boston Massacre 1770

Answer: colonial propaganda against the British; 5 civilians killed by British

soldiers

• "Common Sense"

Answer: written by Thomas Paine to spur revolution among colonists

• Intolerable Acts

Answer: 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

Answer: 1775; formed army with General Washington; tried to implement colonial

currency

• Loyalists

Answer: supported by slaves & Amerindians

• American allies

Answer: France (navy, training, resources) Spain & Netherlands (weapons)

• Battle of Yorktown

Answer: 1778, Washington defeats Cornwallis

• Treaty of Paris 1783

Answer: officially ended the American Revolution, Britain recognized US as

independent

• Articles of Confederation

Answer: aimed at keeping national government weak, short term president, no taxes; accomplished nothing

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• Constitutional Convention 1787

Answer: formed new and improved US Constitution: taxes, majority vote, centralized

• Estates General

Answer:

First Estate: clergy

Second Estate: nobles

Third Estate: peasants, merchants, artisans, bourgeoisie 98% of population

• National Assembly

Answer: collectively unifies Third Estate, wrote up Declaration of Rights of Man, was called for arrest

• "French disease"

Answer: Austria and Prussia threatened to interfere in French Revolution, National Assembly declared war on them in 1971

• Storming of Bastille

Answer: July 14, 1789: beginning of French Revolution

• Guillotine

Answer: "humane" execution method, symbol of violent French revolution

28. The Terror: 1793-1794

Answer: Robespierre's ruthless, bloody, dictatorial rule of the French Revolution

• National Convention

Answer: radical liberal group (Jacobins & Girondists & more extreme Mountain faction), hated the Church

• Maximilien Robespierre

Answer: leader of National Convention Mountain faction; exe cuted anyone who

supported monarchy, eventually arrested and executed

• The Directory

Answer: 5 man group elected after The Terror; got nothing done

• Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer: popular authoritarianism; limited Church; liberal reforms; forced French

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