The Age of Reason
The period in the 1600s–1700s where thinkers used reason, logic, and science to improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
The slogan American colonists used to protest being taxed by Britain without a voice in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
The estate in France that made up the commoners and paid the vast majority of the taxes.
What is the 3rd Estate?
The original name of the French colony that later became Haiti.
What is Saint-Domingue?
A system of government where a King or Queen has total power, such as Louis XVI.
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
John Locke’s idea that everyone is born with life, liberty, and property.
What are Natural Rights?
The war that left Britain heavily in debt, leading them to tax the American colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
The historic event where the Third Estate vowed not to separate until they wrote a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The former slave who led the fight for Haitian independence.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
The term for the forcible overthrow of a government to demand change.
What is a Revolution?
he philosopher who advocated for dividing government into branches to maintain a separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The event that served as a major symbol of freedom from royal tyranny in 1789.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
These topical imports relied on enslaved africans to work on plantation and generated great wealth for France.
What are sugar and coffee?
The political theory stating that monarchs (kings/queens) are chosen directly by God to rule with absolute power.
What is the Divine Right of Kings
The Enlightenment thinker who promoted tolerance, individual rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.
Who is Voltaire?
The 1765 law requiring colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The period of intense violence and public executions led by Robespierre.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The historic milestone achieved by Haiti’s victory in 1804.
What is becoming the first independent Black republic (or first successful slave revolt)?
Both the American and French Revolutions were sparked by these.
What are unfair taxes and lack of representation?
The agreement stating that governments exist to protect people’s rights, and if they fail to do so, the people can change them.
What is the Social Contract?
This European country gave the American colonists military and financial aid.
What is France?
A meeting called by King Louis XVI were each estate received 1 vote.
What was the Estates General?
Two main ideas or events that inspired enslaved Africans to rebel in Saint-Domingue.
What are Enlightenment ideas and the French Revolution?
An economic system where Great Britain restricted colonial trade to benefit the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?