A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
What is a slave?
100
An era of thought that emphasized reason, rationalism, and individualism.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
This document was written to King George III in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
A lawyer of the Third Estate, he is largely responsible for the execution of about 20,000 French citizens.
Who is Robespierre?
100
The name of the island we now know as Haiti while it was under French rule.
What is Saint-Domingue?
200
In 1888, the Transatlantic Slave Trade finally ended because this country finally abolished slavery.
What is Brazil?
200
Inspired by Enlightenment thinker John Locke, he wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became ambassador to France during the French Revolution.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Many scholars believe this act passed by the British Parliament marks the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
200
This event is largely held as the start of the French Revolution.
What is the Attack on Bastille?
200
He was a former slave who became a general who fought for abolition and independence from France.
Who was Touissant L'Ouverture?
300
A religious group in North America that was influential in the abolition movement.
Who are the Quakers?
300
This document was largely inspired by the Enlightenment philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and proclaimed the right to freedom of thought.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man?
300
When the American colonists, dressed as "Indians," boarded a ship in Boston Harbor, they were protesting this new law.
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
300
During the Reign of Terror, Louis XVI and almost 17,000 others were beheaded with this device.
What is the guillotine?
300
A person of white French and black African background.
What is a creole?
400
The system of slavery used in the United States where slaves are treated as literal property that could be bought, sold, traded, and inherited.
What is chattel slavery?
400
He was a philosopher believed that life was nasty, brutish, and short.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
400
He created a print of the Boston Massacre that was printed in many colonial newspapers and served to incite many American colonists to join the fight for independence.
Who is Paul Revere?
400
Watching the new French society struggle to stay together, Robespierre decided to start this new kind of republic where all citizens would be forced to participate.
What is a Republic of Virtue?
400
Haiti produced 60% of the world's coffee and 40% of this other crop.
What is sugar?
500
This is considered the largest slave rebellion in world history.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
500
Adam Smith is sometimes referred to as the father of this economic system.
What is capitalism?
500
He served as ambassador to France in the 1780s and thus witnessed much of the violence of their revolution.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
This flag, used for the first time during the French Revolution, has vertical bars of blue, white, and red to represent the state of France divided by the House of Bourbon.
What is the tricolore?
500
He was a free mulatto who led a slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue in 1790, sparking the revolution.