Enlightenment
What rights should people have?
Democracy, individual liberty, freedom of expression,ect.
Describe working conditions in early factories.
Not safe; child labor
What happened at the boston massacre?
This occurred when colonists started calling British soldiers names and throwing stones at them.
Which geographic feature presented an obstacle to Simón Bolívar's forces?
Andes Mountains
Enlightenment
a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly
What time period was the age of enlightenment?
The 17th century
Which country is credited with beginning the Industrial Revolution?
England
What were colonists so upset about since they had no vote or representation?
Taxes
What caused the Latin American Revolution?
Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula
Thomas Hobbes
English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Held that for humans, life was "nasty, brutish, and short," and that man was essentially "bad" by nature.
What power source was instrumental to industrial mechanization?
Steam
What caused the the french revolution?
High/unfair taxes
What was one effect of the Latin American revolutions of the 19th century?
Many Latin American countries achieved independence
social contract
A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules.
Who wrote the leviathan?
Thomas Hobbs
Explain two reasons why the industrial revolution began in Britain?
Essay transportation, Inventors born there,coal.
What three words served as the theme that inspired the slaves of St.Domingue.
Liberty, Fraternity, Equality
The struggles for political independence in Latin America during the early 1800s were most directly influenced by the...
American and French Revolutions
capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Which form of government did Hobbes prefer?
Absolute monarchy
List Some inventions...
Mule, spinning Jenny, water frame,ect
What nation wanted an opportunity to grasp St.Domingue for themselves.
Britian
Compare/ Contrast the causes of the French Revolution to the causes of the revolutions in Latin America.
American Revolution Social Class Inequality Absolute Monarchy
Causes for Latin American Rev: Imperialism
Molly Wollstonecraft
an eighteenth-century British writer, philosophies, and advocate of women's rights and equality.