Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen ✔✔Written by Olympe de Gouges it was basically a rewriting of the Declaration of the Rights of Man to include women. Popular Sovereinty ✔✔Belief that people should have the right to rule themselves American Revolution ✔✔Period when 13 colonies gained independence from England. Based on disapproval by colonists of several taxes and other unpopular laws. Protests lead to fighting in 1775, and after two main British armies were captured in 1777 and 1781 and an alliance of the colonists with the French, the Treaty of Paris was signed. No taxation with out representation ✔✔ideas of James Otis and Samuel Adams summed up into a slogan ; this slogan spred through out the colonies ; led by Samuel Adams The Declaration of Independence ✔✔an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were "Free and Independent States" and that "all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved." The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen ✔✔A document drafted in August 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly. This declaration uphled that all men were "born and remain free and equal in rights" of "liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression." It called for equality of law, education, employment, innocent until proven guilty, and freedom of religion. Liberty, Fraternity and Equality ✔✔The National Motto of France Central American Federation ✔✔split into independant states A Vindication of the Rights of Women ✔✔Mary Wollstonecraft - 1792 Gouges ✔✔radical revolutionary who demanded that women be regarded as citizens, be allowed to own property, equality of the sexes and access to education Voltaire ✔✔Greatest of enlightened philosophers; He was educated by Jesuits, and came to challenge Catholic Church. He believed in distant deistic God - a clockmaker who built an orderly world and let in run under laws of science. He hated religious intolerance and felt that religion suppressed human spirit. He wrote Candide against evils of organized religion. He argued for religious toleration in Treatise on Toleration. His deism was intended to construct a more natural religion based on reason and natural law. He was imprisoned in the Bastille for 11 months in 1717. Then he was exiled in England for 3 years, when he came to admire their system of government and advocated freedom of thought and respect for all. Lived on the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia from 1743, where he supporter Enlightened Despotism. Washington ✔✔1st President of the United States Robespierre ✔✔French revolutionary Toussaint ✔✔__________ L'Ouverture began the revolt that eventually led to Haitian independence. Haiti becomes the first successful assault on colonial gov't. Bolivar ✔✔Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule San Martin ✔✔Freed Chile in 1817, Peru in 1821 Wollstonecraft ✔✔English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women Von Herder ✔✔rooted national identity in German folk culture. Theodore Herzl ✔✔Austrian journalist and founder of the Zionist movement urging the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. (p. 760) Cavour ✔✔Architect of Italian unification in 1858; formed an alliance with France to attack Austrian control of northern Italy; resulted in creation of constitutional monarchy under Piedmonteste king. Otto Von Bismarck ✔✔Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871, when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist, he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire (714) Calico Acts ✔✔Acts passed by England to protect its textile industry; prohibited imports of printed cotton cloth and restricted the sale of calicoes at home Power loom ✔✔a loom operated mechanically, run by water putting the loom side by side wit hthe spinning machines in factories, changed workers job from running it to watching it, Invented in 1787, invented by Edward Cartwright , it speeded up the production of textiles Rocket ✔✔the first effective locomotive that was developed in 1816 and finished in 1825 which went down the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at 16mph Putting Out system ✔✔system of merchant-capitalists "putting out" raw materials to cottage workers for processing and payment that was fully developed in England Assembly Line ✔✔mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it