| A | B |
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| Seven Years War | 1754-1763-war over colonies and power between France and England. British won-got lots of land like Canada. |
| Proclaimation of 1763 | couldn't go past this line to colonize in the British colonies-this started the Seven Years' War so many were unhappy when this came out. |
| Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshed Act, | Taxes and restrictions passed against colonists to pay for the cost of the war |
| Boston Massacre | 1770-5 shot after protesting British custom house |
| Boston Tea Party | 1773-after Tea Act-against the British East India Company-resulted in the Intolerable Acts |
| April 1775 | first battle of Revolutionary war!!! |
| Olive branch petition | tried to reach out for peace with King George III, but rejects (July 5, 1775) |
| July 4, 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| Feb 1778 | British recognize US independence |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Formly ended Revolutionary War |
| French Revolution | caused by French debt-7 years war and American Revolution |
| estates-general | emergency body (similar to Parliament) that meets only when needed. Louis XVI called to meet in 1789. |
| Tennis Court Oath (1789) | 3rd estate took after being locked out of their meeting room during the Estates-General meetings |
| National Assembly | 3rd estate called themselves |
| Bastille | July 14, 1789 stormed after King Louis XVI had soldiers come to Paris to quell protests around food prices |
| Oct 5, 1789 | Peasant women marched to Versailles and forced the king and queen to come back to Paris and listen to the people |
| 1791 | King Louis XVI agreed to a consititutional monarchy |
| 1791 (spring) | Louis XVI attempt to flee to Austria |
| 1793 | King Louis XVI put on trial and killed by guillotine |
| convention | new name of national assembly |
| jacobin | radicals who came to power in France and executed the king |
| Committee of Public Safety | ruled France over the convention-Robespierre in charge |
| Reign of Terror | time period 1793-94 where thousands across France were killed -fighting a war (British, Prussia, Austria) while having a revolution- |
| Directory | after Robespierre is killed-this committee rules over France and the convention |
| Battle of Pyramids | 1798-Napoleon wins against the Mamulukes/ Ottoman Turks in Egypt-gave France lots of pride |
| Napoleon | rises to take control-overthrow Directory 1799 (consulate with him being the 1st consul) then he crowns himself emperor in 1804. |
| Peninsular Wars | Napoleon's wars across Euorpe of expansion |
| Napoleonic Code | new law code of Napoleon-also restored the Church too |
| Napoleonic Wars | Against Napoleon to oust-1814 battle of Nation and 1815 Battle of Waterloo |
| Congress of Vienna | reset borders after Napoleon is taken out of power in 1815 |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | lead the end of slavery in Haiti-joined British and Spanish against the French. In 1794 France backed down and ended slavery in the Caribbean. |
| Haiti independence | 1804-after Napoleon failed to retake the island...yellow fever |
| Louisana Purchase | 1803 Napoleon gave up on American empire (for now) and sold giant section of their lands to the US in 1803 |
| Creoles | success ones who lead the independence movments-kept native and african slaves out of it. |
| Father Hidalgo | Lead movement of independence in Mexico against Spain of Mestizos-killed by creoles |
| 1821 (mexico) | Empire of Mexico under Emperor Augustin I (Iturbide) |
| Mexico | 1824 becomes a Republic |
| Santa Anna | leader of Mexican Republic -military leader |
| The Alamo | 1836-British in Texas fight for their independence and lost at the Alamo. Later Santa Anna taken by Texan forces and in 1836 agreed to Treaty of Velasco giving up Texas |
| When did US annex Texas | 1845-made Mexico pretty mad-then sent people to explore California-which was Mexico's???? |
| Mexican-American War | 1846-1848-war over land in sw usa- USA won and got most of the southwest |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | ended Mexican-American War and Mexico lost 1/3 of their lands to the US |
| Dom Joao VI | King of Portgual |
| junats | committees that ruled while king was deposed in Spanish colonies |
| Royal sof Portugal moved where when Napoleon took their home | Brazil |
| Dom Pedro I | son of king who was left in brazil and worked with revolutionaries (1822 Brazil became independent under consitutional king Dom Pedro I) |
| Dom Pedro II | ousted father in favor of son...eventually ends slaves in 1888. |
| Republic of Brazil | 1889-after Dom Pedro ousted because he ended slavery in 1888. |
| fazendas | coffee plantations in Brazil |
| Simon Bolivar | lead indpendence movement in the Northern part of South America-Gran Colombia |
| Jose de San Martin | independence movement in the southern part of South America-Rio de la Plata |
| United Provinces of Central America | large state after independence that later broke down into smaller states |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823-USA-if anyone tries to retake independent colonies it would be seen by US as an unfriendly act |
| last areas to break free | Cuba and Puerto Rico-because creoles wanted to maintain slavery |
| Early leader of Argentina | Manual de Rosas |
| Argentine Republic | 1862 after Manual de Rosas was kicked out of power |
| gauchos | Argentine cowboys-cattle ranching big there |
| caudillo | military leaders who were fairly conservative and rose to power in much of Latin America |
