Enlightenment
This Enlightenment movement encouraged people to use reason and think for themselves.
What is the Enlightenment?
This social class paid the most taxes and included peasants and workers.
What is the Third Estate?
A government in which a king or queen has unlimited power.
What is an absolute monarchy?
The overthrow of a government by the people.
What is a revolution?
A feeling of pride and loyalty to one's nation.
What is nationalism?
This thinker believed people have natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
France's financial problems worsened because of its expensive involvement in this American conflict.
What is the American Revolution?
This document declared that men are born free and equal in rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
This enslaved population led the only successful slave revolt in world history.
What is Haiti?
To bring together into one country.
What is unification?
This philosopher argued for separation of powers in government.
Who is Montesquieu?
The French king who was executed during the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
During this period, thousands were executed for suspected disloyalty.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The Haitian Revolution was inspired in part by this earlier revolution in France.
What is the French Revolution?
This country was made up of many separate states before unification.
What is Italy?
These are freedoms people are born with and cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights?
The French queen often associated with the phrase "Let them eat cake."
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Poor harvests and rising prices made this basic food difficult to afford.
What is bread?
This Venezuelan leader is known as "The Liberator."
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This leader of Prussia used "blood and iron" to unite Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
The Enlightenment inspired this 1776 revolution in North America.
What is the American Revolution?
This event marked the beginning of the Revolution in 1789.
What is the meeting of the Estates-General?
On July 14, 1789, revolutionaries stormed this prison.
What is the Bastille?
Most Latin American countries gained independence from these two European powers.
What are Spain and Portugal?
This movement united Italy into one nation in 1861.
What is Italian Unification?