Important People
From a wealthy Creole family, this man led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule. He eventually became president of Gran Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
These motivations for exploration and colonization are often referred to as the "Three G's".
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
The idea that the earth revolves around the sun.
What is heliocentrism?
The Protestant Reformation took place primarily on this continent.
What is Europe?
A series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804 between enslaved people in Haiti, colonists, the armies of the British and French colonizers, and a number of other parties.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
He was a general in the French Army and helped end the French Revolution. He later ruled as an undemocratic dictator, creating the Napoleonic Code and fighting the Napoleonic Wars.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Named after an Italian explorer, this term refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A system of government in which a country is ruled by a king and queen whose power is limited by a constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This country is the home of General Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
What is Haiti?
This French prison was stormed by revolutionaries who saw it as a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power.
What is the Bastille?
This man served as a general for both Spain and France. He implemented Haiti's first constitution in 1801 and named himself governor-for-life. He aimed to abolish slavery and was satisfied with a French-controlled Haiti after its abolition in the colony.
Who is Toussaint L'ouverture?
The section of the Triangle Trade in which enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
Pseudo-scientific efforts to denigrate non-white races.
What is Scientific Racism?
This mountain range is located on the western side of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
These punitive laws were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
King of France (1774-1792). He summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. He was executed by guillotine in 1793 for his treason against the National Convention.
Who is King Louis XVI of France?
The system in which a mother country colonizes and exploits a region for the economic advantage of commodities and cash crops and in return profits off selling finished products to those regions.
What is mercantilism?
The idea that you acquire knowledge from observation, those observations being derived from sensory experience.
What is empiricism?
This country's king wanted to westernize after visiting France and England, where his country was seen as backwards and "barbarian".
What is Russia?
The Estates-General was unable to come to compromises of the First and Second Estate with the Third. The Third Estate broke away from the Estates General and formed this.
What is the National Assembly?
During the Reign of Terror, this French lawyer came to have almost total control over the French government, which he used to arrest and execute “enemies” of the revolution. He led the Committee of Public Safety.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Under the rule of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, this event sought to take back Iberia from the Moors (Muslims living in Spain and Portugal) and convert them to Christianity.
What is the Reconquista?
This theory, which was supported by philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, entailed that the people would consent to give up certain freedoms in exchange for the protection only a government could provide.
What is the Social Contract?
Founded by Simon Bolivar in 1819, this union of independent nations in Latin America dissolved after political differences between those that believed in a strong federal government and those that wanted to separate themselves from the union.
What is Gran Colombia?
France’s National Convention created this committee in order to protect the new republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?