An Age of Revolutions in Europe and the Americas

(Volume E)

A New Vocabulary

Industrial Revolution

• England• end of an agricultural

economy• colonization • slavery• cotton, textile industry• factory working

conditions

Political Revolution: Democracy

• A government’s power is derived only from the consent of the governed (p. 6).

• “Man is born free, yet everywhere is in chains” (Rousseau).

French Revolution

Reign of Terror

Napoleon

eEmperor, 1804• self-crowned• Battle of Waterloo,

1815• Napoleonic Code• South America

Proletariat

1848: Springtime of the Peoples

Revolutionary Writers

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Revolutionary Europe

Which good was initially responsible for England’s industrial boom?

a. grainb. whiskeyc. cornd. cotton

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Who declared independence in 1776?

a. Britainb. Francec. United Statesd. all of the above

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What event marked the beginning of the French Revolution?

a. the storming of the Bastilleb. the invasion of France by the Britishc. the Declaration of the Rights of Mand. the execution of the French king

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In what work can you find this typically revolutionary expression: “Workers of the world, unite!”?

a. the Napoleonic Codeb. the Declaration of the Rights of Manc. the Declaration of Independenced. the Communist Manifesto

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In 1798, who authored a work that was to break with poetic tradition by employing “language really used by men”?

a. William Blakeb. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridgec. Elizabeth Barrett Browningd. Leo Tolstoy

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