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This was the number of Estates/Social classes in France.
What are three?
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This was the country under which the American colonies were controlled.
What is Great Britain?
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This was the country which controlled the colony of Haiti.
What is France?
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The Mexican Revolution was inspired by the revolutions in ____________.
What is Haiti?
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These are defined as Life, Liberty, and Property. However, Jefferson would change property to "Pursuit of Happiness".

What are natural rights?

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He was the King during the French Revolution.

Who is King Louis XVI?

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An older sister gets "cold feet" on her coronation day and ruins the local ecosystem.

What is Frozen?

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This is the estate that began the French Revolution when they attempted to draft a new National Constitution in taking the Tennis Court Oath.

What is the Third Estate?

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These were levied on the American colonies in order to raise money for the British Empire.
What are taxes?
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This was the crop primarily grown on Haiti and which required slave labor to harvest.
What is sugar cane?
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Many of the revolutions that occurred in Latin America were primarily inspired by which other revolution?

What is the French Revolution?

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The American Revolution was highly inspired by this man's ideas on Natural Rights, the Social Contract, and the Right to Revolt.

Who was John Locke?

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This period was characterized by a new way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation, experimentation, and the questioning of traditional beliefs.

What is the Scientific Revolution?

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A series of OSHA violations leads to a massive plumbing disaster in the North Atlantic.

What is Titanic?

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These were the three slogan phrases for the French Revolution.

What are liberty, fraternity, and equality?

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This economic policy, practiced by Great Britain, viewed colonies as a source of raw materials and a market for finished goods, strictly for the benefit of the "Mother Country."

What is Mercantilism?

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This is the famous leader of the slave rebellion.
Who was L'Ouverture?
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This European Nation held complete control over the colony of Mexico.
What is Spain?
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Locke, and Rousseau argued that individuals would give up certain rights and freedoms in exchange for protection and order. This is known as a...

What is a Social Contract?

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Peter the Great intended to  modernize this country, which he ruled over as an absolute monarch.

What is Russia?

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A young man learns how to use a rug to kidnap a princess and lie about his net worth.

What is Aladdin?

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This was the time period led by Maxmillien Robespierre in which 40,000 people were killed.
What is the "Reign of Terror."
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This 1770 event, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, was used as powerful "propaganda" by Paul Revere to stir up anti-British sentiment.

What is the Boston Massacre?

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Haiti became the first Independent nation in ________ _____________.
What is Latin America?
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This European leader's invasion of Spain and Portugal in 1808 created a "power vacuum" in the colonies, giving Latin American revolutionaries the opportunity to strike for independence.

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?

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It is from this thinker that we get our principle of the Separation of Powers within government.

Who is Montesquieu?

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Nicolaus Copernicus developed this theory, or scientific model, that states the Earth orbits the sun, not the other way around.

What is the Heliocentric model?

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A man who hates his job accidentally joins a boxing club that is actually a domestic terrorist organization.

What is Fight Club?

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After the French Revolution European leaders met here to determine how to restore order and stability throughout Europe. This meant putting kings back on the thrones to rule.

What is the Congress of Vienna?

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This is the reason that Britain was low on money and needed to tax the empire.
What is war with France?
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Haiti was a ____________meaning that leaders were elected via popular vote.
What is a republic?
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This "Libertador" was a Venezuelan military and political leader who was inspired by Enlightenment ideals to lead the independence movements in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

Who was Simon Bolivar?

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Of the following, who's thoughts and ideas would likely have had the most influence on the following quote from the U.S. Constitution: 

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”

Locke / Rousseau / Hobbes / Voltaire

Who is Voltaire?

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It is the belief of kings that their power and right to comes from God.

What is the Devine Right of Kings? (Divine Right)

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A guy talks to his volleyball for five years because he’s bad at checking the weather before a flight.

What is Cast Away?

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