Transcript Bell Ringer…A Review

Bell RingeR…A Review
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 3 Things you learned from the “Road to Revolution”.
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 2 Interesting Facts you learned.
 1 Question you still have.
The Seven Years’ War
Enlightened Absolutism
The philosophes believed enlightened rulers
should emerge
Characteristics of Enlightened Rulers
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Allow religious toleration
Freedom of speech and press
Rights of private property.
They nurture arts and sciences and education
Obey the laws and enforce them fairly for all
Prussia
Prussia: Army and Bureaucracy
Fredrick William I and Fredrick II made Prussia a major
European power in the 18th century.
Their major concern was the army (4th largest in Europe.
Fredrick II abolished the use of torture except in treason and
murder cases.
Granted free speech, press, and religion.
Kept Prussian serfdom.
Frederick William I and Frederick the Great
Austria
The Austrian Empire
Austrian empire was difficult to rule because of
different nationalities and languages.
Empress Maria Theresa (1740) worked to
centralized power within the empire.
She was opposed to philosophe reforms, but worked
to help the conditions of the serfs.
Her son Joseph II believed heavily in philosophe
reform.
Austria
Russia
Russia under Catherine the Great
Catherine II or Catherine the Great ruled from 17621796.
Catherine was open to enlightenment ideas.
Catherine’s policies only benefited the nobles and
serfdom was expanded throughout Russia.
She was successful in expanding the Russian Empire
southward to the Black Sea by defeating the Turks.
Catherine the Great
The Seven Years War
In 1756 new alliances formed.
France allied itself with Austria and Russia.
Great Britain and Prussia became allies.
This war would take place on 3 fronts.
• Europe
• India
• North America
The Seven Years War
War in North America
Also known as the French and Indian War.
France made an alliance with Native Americans.
Great Britain put little resources into the
European theater of this war.
The British won a series of victories in Montreal,
the Great Lakes, and Ohio River Valley.
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the War.
The French gave up all their holdings in North America.
The British took the lands in Canada and East of the Mississippi
River.
The Spanish took the Louisiana territory from France as
payment for help in the War.
The British was now the supreme Colonial Empire in the world.
The Treaty of Paris
Assignment
 Complete Questions 4-7 on page 316 (Section 10-3).
 You must write the question!!!
 This will be checked as part of your notebook check.
 Work on Study Guide.