Enlightenment
The intellectual movement that inspired many revolutions?
What is the Enlightenment
This city played a major role in the American Revolution
What is Philadelphia?
This execution device, made infamous after it claimed the life of King Louis XVI, became a symbol of the French Revolution
What is the Guillotine?
What made the colony of Saint Domingue the most profitable colony in the world?
Cash Crops: Coffee, Sugar
A radical change in the established order, usually the established government and social institutions.
What is a Revolution?
A ruler who has complete control over the government and the people
What is an Absolute Monarch?
This document told Britain that the colonies wanted to be free
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This violent period saw thousands executed by guillotine for being “enemies of the revolution"
What is the Reign of Terror?
The Haitian Revolution was the first successful revolt by this group of people
Who are enslaved people?
What are the 3 branches of Government?
What is Executive, Judicial, Legislative
These are basic freedoms people are born with, like life and liberty?
What are natural rights?
America was this kind of territory, controlled by Britain from far away.
What is a Colony?
In 1789, members of the Third Estate pledged not to separate until they had written a new constitution for France. This pledge is known as what?
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This enslaved African leader became the main figure of the Haitian Revolution
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
The extravagant spending on this royal palace, with its lavish parties, fountains, and decorations, helped drain France’s treasury and worsen the national debt before the Revolution
What is the Palace of Versailles?
This philosopher believed people are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This slogan meant colonists didn’t want taxes if they had no say in British government.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
What is a privilege shared by both the clergy and the nobility
What is paid little to no taxes and had their own courts?
This Caribbean colony, known for sugar and coffee production, was the site of the Haitian Revolution.
What is Saint Domingue?
After gaining independence, the United States created this 1787 document to organize government, separate powers, and guarantee certain rights
What is the U.S. Constitution
The idea that people give up some freedoms in exchange for protection from the government is called this
What is Social Contract Theory?
This series of taxes and laws were passed by Britain to punish Boston after the Tea Party.
What were the intolerable acts?
After years of instability, France ended its revolutionary era when this military leader seized power in the 1799 coup.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This 1791 ceremony, led by a Vodou priest, is considered the spiritual spark that ignited the Haitian slave revolt.
What is the Bois Caïman ceremony?
This philosopher’s idea that government power should be divided among separate branches to prevent tyranny later inspired the checks-and-balances system adopted in the U.S. Constitution
Who is Montesquieu?