Enlightenment
This institution was questioned as being overly dominant in Europe
What is the Catholic Church?
A conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Native American allies
What was French and Indian War?
Who pays the most taxes and has the highest rate of military service (96% of the population)
Who was the Third Estate?
A sudden and illegal seizure of government, with the intentions of replacing that current government and replacing it with a new ruling body
What is a coup?
An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident/slave labor
What is a plantation?
An ethical theory that claims that humans are born with a certain moral compass that guides behaviors; rules discoverable by reason
What is natural law?
Leader of England during the revolution
Who was King George III?
The right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country
What is divine right?
A series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss a new layout of the European political order after the downfall of Napoleon
What is the Congress of Vienna?
A Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution
Who was Toussaint Louverture?
Believed in life, liberty and property
Who was John Locke?
Ended European Seven Years’ War and forced France to surrender all of American possessions to British and Spanish
What was the Treaty of Paris?
A human and civil rights document from the French Revolution
What was Declaration of Rights of Man?
The country that ultimately destroys France/Napoleon
Who is Russia?
Country that owned the colony of Saint-Domingue
Who is France?
Wrote The Social Contract which described how society placed too many limitations on people’s behavior
Who was Rousseau?
The principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
What is popular sovereignty?
Radicals that wanted to get rid of the king and monarchy entirely
Who were the Jacobins?
The person/group that crowns Napoleon thus giving up their power to him
Who was the Pope/Catholic Church?
Reason for Haiti's economic success
Coffee and sugar plantations
English writer and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
A law that required the colonists to pay a tax on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards
What was the Stamp Act?
A tumultuous period during the French Revolution characterized by mass executions
What was Reign of Terror?
Napoleon agreed to sell France's territorial holdings in North America to the newly formed United States for $15 million
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Haiti had one of the only successful versions of this
A slave revolt