This list represents vocabulary from the semester that appears in some form on the final exam. Items with a star behind them are for the Honors class only.
Modern World History
Semester 1 Final Exam
Vocab Study Guide
CHAPTER 5
1. The Reformation
2. inflation
3. Absolute Monarchs
4. Divine Right
5. Huguenots
6. Henry IV
7. Edict of Nantes
8. Cardinal Richelieu
9. The Hapsburgs
10. Louis XIV
11. Cardinal Mazarin
12. Versailles
13. Balance of Power
14. War of Spanish Succession
15. Thirty Years’ War
16. Peace of Westphalia
17. modern state system
18. Maria Theresa
19. Frederick II (Frederick the Great)
20. War of the Austrian Succession
21. Seven Years’ War
22. King James I
23. Puritans
24. Charles I
25. Petition of Right
26. English Civil War
27. Royalists
28. Cavaliers
29. Roundheads
30. Oliver Cromwell
31. commonwealth
32. Charles II
33. the Restoration
34. habeas corpus
35. James II
36. William & Mary of Orange
37. Glorious Revolution
38. constitutional monarchy
39. Bill of Rights (1689)
40. Cabinet
41. prime minister
CHAPTER 6
42. geocentric theory
43. Scientific Revolution
44. Nicolaus Copernicus
45. heliocentric theory
46. Johannes Kepler
47. Galileo Galilei
48. scientific method
49. Francis Bacon
50. Isaac Newton
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Zacharias Janssen
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Evangalista Torricelli
Galen
Andreas Vesalius
Edward Jenner
Robert Boyle
Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes
social contract
John Locke
natural rights
philosophes
5 core beliefs of the philosophes
Voltaire
Baron de Montesquieu
separation of powers
checks and balances
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
3 major impacts of the Enlightenment
secular
salons
Denis Diderot
baroque*
neoclassical*
classical music*
novel*
enlightened despots
Frederick the Great
Catherine the Great
CHAPTER 7
82. estates
83. First Estate
84. Second Estate
85. Third Estate
86. bourgeoisie
87. tithe
88. Louis XVI
89. Marie Antoinette
90. Estates-General
91. National Assembly
92. Tennis Court Oath
93. Bastille
94. Great Fear
95. Declaration of the Right of Man & of the Citizen
96. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
97. Olympe de Gouges
98. Legislative Assembly
99. Radicals
100. Moderates
101. Conservatives
102. Liberals
103. Reactionaries
104. Emigres
105. sans-culottes
This list represents vocabulary from the semester that appears in some form on the final exam. Items with a star behind them are for the Honors class only.
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September Massacres
National Convention
Jacobin Club (Jacobins)
Jean-Paul Marat
guillotine
Maximilien Robespierre
Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror (The Terror)
the Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
coup d’etat
Napoleonic Code
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Battle of Trafalgar
Continental System
guerillas
Peninsular War
Czar Alexander I
scorched-earth policy
Battle of Waterloo
Congress of Vienna (COV)
Klemens von Metternich
3 goals of Metternich @ COV
Holy Alliance
Concert of Europe
CHAPTER 8
131. nationalism
132. nation-state
133. assimilation
134. ethnic cleansing
135. Romanov dynasty
136. Russification
137. Victor Emmanuel II
138. Camillo di Cavour
139. Giuseppe Garibaldi
140. Red Shirts
141. German Confederation
142. Wilhelm I (William)
143. Junkers
144. Otto von Bismarck
145. realpolitik
146. Prussia
147. Austria
148. Schleswig & Holstein
149. annexation
150. Franco-Prussian War
151. Kaiser
152. Second Reich
153. Romanticism*
154. Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley*
155. Realism*
156. Charles Dickens*
157. Impressionism*
CHAPTER 9
158. Agricultural Revolution#
159. Industrial Revolution
160. textiles
161. enclosures
162. Jethro Tull/seed drill
163. crop rotation
164. three-field system
165. Robert Bakewell
166. Industrialization
167. factors of production
168. capital
169. John Kay/flying shuttle
170. James Hargreaves/spinning jenny
171. Richard Arkwright/water frame
172. factories
173. Eli Whitney/cotton gin
174. steam engine
175. James Watt
176. entrepreneur
177. Robert Fulton
178. John McAdam
179. Richard Trevithick
180. four major effects of railroads
181. urbanization
182. Luddites
183. Samuel Slater
184. Moses Brown
185. Francis Cabot Lowell
186. stock/shares
187. corporation
188. stockholders
189. the “British miracle”
190. Ruhr Valley
191. wealth gap
192. imperialism
193. laissez faire
194. Adam Smith/The Wealth of Nations
195. Jeremy Bentham
196. utilitarianism
197. Robert Owen
198. utopia
199. socialism
200. Karl Marx
201. Marxism
202. Friederich Engels
203. The Communist Manifesto
204. bourgeoisie (“haves”)
205. proletariat (“have-nots”)
206. capitalism vs. socialism (Analyzing Key
Concepts)
207. unions
208. collective bargaining
209. strike
210. Combination Acts
211. Horace Mann