He believed that the government's power should be divided into separate branches, that the government should be close to the people, and that laws should reflect the will of the people.

Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in which she called for equal education for girls and boys.

Clergy, Nobility, Everyone else

The revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy and the system of aristocratic privileges, while ending with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.

The leader of the Committee of Public Safety that governed France. He centralized the administration of France and helped expand the Reign of Terror.

French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)

Leader of the slave revolt against the French in the Haitian Revolution

(1815-1898) German prime minister who intentionally provoked three wars to provide the people with a sense of nationalism and unify Germany

Authored by Marx and Engels criticizing capitalism and detailing a plan to dismantle society

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

Movement of people from rural areas to cities

A poem that included the justifications for European imperialism was the notion that superior white peoples had a moral obligation to raise ignorant native peoples to a higher level of civilization.

The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.

A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules for the colonization of Africa