Enlightenment
Enlightenment philosopher who believed in a separation of the government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.
Montesquieu
Belief in the ideas of the Enlightenment and discontent within the Third Estate were causes of the_______.
French Revolution
What do historians call the series of military conflicts between the French Empire and other European powers (led by Britain) who wanted to stop Napoleon's conquest of Europe?
The Napoleonic Wars
This brutal system on the island of St. Domingue produced cash crops for the French.
Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
Why is the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen important?
It proclaimed that all male citizens were created equal
The First Estate was made up of______.
The Second __________
The Third____________
Clergy
Nobles
Everybody else/peasantry
The Haitian Revolution was influenced by which other major revolutions, which spread ideas of liberty and equality?
American and French Revolution
Hobbes
Leader of the French Revolutionists called the Jacobins from 1793-1794 during the Reign of Terror
Maximillian Robespierre
The most important set of laws that Napoleon created to unify France is what?
Napoleonic Code
One way in which Toussaint L’Ouverture, Simón Bolívar, and José de San Martín are similar is that they...
led independence movements
An intellectual movement that generated new ideas about government, which contributed to the start of the French Revolution
The Enlightenment
A radical phase of the French Revolution when thousands of traitors were executed for "disloyalty"
Reign of Terror
What are some factors that contributed to Napoleon's downfall in his campaign to take Russia?
Freezing climate, timing, starvation, distance from supplies, etc.
Who was "The Liberator" who freed Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador from Spanish control?
Simon Bolivar
One way in which the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment were similar is that they
Encouraged the spreading of new ideas
or challenged some beliefs of the Church/authority figures
One of the main purposes of the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815) was to
establish a balance of power in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon
On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully take over the _______________________, an old armory that had been used since 1659 as a state prison
The Bastille
The growing discontent among Creole elites (people of Spanish descent born in Latin America) with the restrictive policies of Spanish colonial rule was the main cause of ________________________.
The Latin American Revolutions