According to the slides, what is the definition of the Enlightenment?
Rethinking old ideas, ideas must be challenged to see if they still work or need to be changed.
What European movement inspired the American Revolution?
The Enlightenment.
What other revolution inspired the French Revolution?
The American Revolution.
What revolutions inspired the Haitian Revolution?
The American and French Revolutions
What three revolutions inspired the Latin American revolutions?
American, French, and Haitian.
Where else did the Enlightenment happen?
The Arabic world.
What are natural rights?
People are born with rights that cannot be violated by governments rights given by God
or
life, liberty, and property
What where the natural rights for the American Revolution?
Life, liberty, happiness.
What are the natural rights of the French Revolution?
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Equality
Representative government
Liberty
Self-determination
Rule of law
Religious freedom
Natural rights (life, liberty, and property)
Social contract/right to revolution
Creole leadership
Economic and social inequality
What was the capital of America during the revolution?
Philadelphia.
How did Enlightenment ideas spread? name at least two ways.
Enlightenment salons, encyclopedias, coffee houses, books/printing press, drawings.
What is popular sovereignty?
The idea that the people are the source of all political power and authority.
What was the Estate System?
A collection of three estates that advised the king.
What was the life expectancy for slaves in Haiti?
21 years.
What system did the Latin American revolutions seek to end?
Slavery
Who led the march on Versailles?
Women
What is the social contract?
Human societies have natural rights and must make governments to protect those rights
What are the separations of power?
A constitutional principle that divides the government into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
What did the National Assembly do?
Goal to limit King’s power
Wanted to advocate for natural rights (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity)
Declaration of Rights of Men (Liberty, property, safety, opposition of oppression)
First constitution of France, limited monarchy power,
What was the Bois Caïman ceremony?
A Voodoo ceremony that started the Haitian Revolution.
What type of nation did Mexico set up after there revolution?
A Empire.
What was the Bastille?
A fort, prison, and armory in Paris.
What are two effects of the Enlightenment?
Mass revolutions around the world, expanding suffrage, and abolition of slavery.
List two elements of the Declaration of Independence.
All men are created equal
Unalienable rights
Consent of the governed
Right to revolt
How many people died during the Reign of Terror?
30 to 50 thousand people.
Briefly explain the Hattian Social structure before the revolution.
Grand Blancs, the wealth white population had all the power
Petits Blancs, the poor commoners of the white population still had power over slaves and freed people of color
Freed people of color could have a education but where seen as the lowest on the social order
Who was know as The Liberator?
Simon Bolivar.
How many men did Napoleon lose in Russia?
500,000
What is Individualism?
Human individuals are the most basic and important aspects of society not collective groups.
What was the Stamp Act?
A tax on stamps that where required for daily life.
What are two things the French Republic did?
Ended absolute monarchy in France
Set up republic government (similar to America)
New social order based on merit not birth
Let commoners work in government
Constitution, separation of church and state
Freedom from unjust arrest, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do whatever you want if it harms no one
List three ways the French Revolution inspired the Haitian Revolution.
Natural Rights Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Collective power of the people
France left weak
National Assembly abolished slavery
Toussaint Louverture learned from French Revolution
What where all the nations that made up Grand Colombia?
Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
Who initially led the liberation of Peru?
San Martín
What religion was formed during the Enlightenment?
Deism.
Describe three amendments in the Bill of Rights.
How dose this quote reflect changing ideas?
The representatives of the French people, constituted as a National Assembly, and considering that ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public misfortunes and governmental corruption, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of man: so that by being constantly present to all the members of the social body this declaration may always remind them of their rights and duties
by emphasizing the Enlightenment principles of natural rights, popular sovereignty, and the role of government in protecting individual freedoms.
What is this source trying to say?
Thus, while whites were erecting another form of government upon the rubble of despotism, the men of color and the blacks united themselves in order to claim their political existence; the resistance of the former having become stronger, it was necessary for the latter to rise up in order to obtain [political recognition] by force of arms. (hint has to do with Haiti)
It is explaining the start of the Haitian Revolution, and why the revolutionaries took arms.
Analyze the importance of this painting, and what it means for the South American revolutions.
Correctness determined by Mr. Adams.
Who wrote the Plan of Iguala
Agustín de Iturbide