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Regulator Movement. 1764-71. American colonists in NC vs tax, corruption.
Rehoboam. -c914BC. Last king of united Israel. First king of Judah.
Reichstag Fire. 1933. Arson. Hitler blamed “red peril” as excuse for assuming dictatorship.
Reis, Philip. 1834-74. Invented and demonstrated telephone 1861. Coined telephony. Bell.
Relativism. Truth depends on the state of the observer relative to the observed.
Relativism, Ethical. What is right depends on what society or individual thinks is right.
Relativity. Einstein’s theories that space and time are not absolute. Special 1905. General 1916.
Renaissance. 13-16C Rebirth of the arts, under classical influence. Humanism. Spread from Italy. Art. Architecture. Music.
Renaissance Architecture. Italy 15C-. England 1558-1702. Intellectual search for harmony with Roman and mathematical proportions. Michelangelo. Bramante. Brunelleschi. Manetti.
Renoir, Pierre A. 1841-1919. French Impressionist painter. Moulin de la Galette 1876. Bathers.
Repartimiento. c1500-1820. Spanish-American colonists recruit Indians for forced labour.
Representation of the People Acts. England. 1918 Women over 30 and men over 21 enfranchised. 1928 Women over 21. 1948 Plural voting abolished. 1969 Age of majority reduced to 18. Reform Bills.
Republican Party. 1792 Jefferson’s agrarian party. 1820 Whigs. 1854. Anti-slavery party. Lincoln. = Grand Old Party. vs Democratic Party.
Restitution, Edict. 1629. HRE restores lands to Roman Catholic Church taken by Protestants since 1552.
Restoration Period. England 1660-88. Charles II, James II. France 1814~30. Louis XVIII, Charles X.
Resurrectionists. 1826-30. Provided bodies for anatomists by grave-robbing or murder. Scotland.
Reunion Is. 1513 Portugal discovers. 1638 French claim. 1665 French settle. 1810 British. 1814 French. 1947 French Overseas Department.
Revivalism. 18,19C. Revival of prior periods of English architecture. Neo-Greek, Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic. British Museum.
Reynolds, Joshua. 1723-92. English expressive portrait painter: Mrs. Siddons. Miss Nelly 1760. Founder, Royal Academy 1768.
Rhineland. German Rhine bank. Hitler defied Treaty of Versailles by militarizing area 1936.
Rhodes, Cecil. 1853-1902. English colonialist in South Africa. Endowed Oxford scholarship to preserve Empire.
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation. 1953-63. Opposed by Malawi, Zambia regions. Dissolved.
Rhuddlan, Statute. 1284. English rule Wales.