French Rev
Pre-revolutionary French society was divided into three social classes based mainly on this.
What is social class (or Estates)?
Thomas Jefferson was strongly influenced by John Locke and the Enlightenment when authoring this 1776 document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Toussaint L'Ouverture led a successful slave rebellion that resulted in this nation gaining independence.
What is Haiti?
This 18th-century intellectual movement emphasized reason, individual rights, and science, serving as the main catalyst for the Age of Revolutions.
What is the Enlightenment?
This Caribbean island nation was the first in the Western Hemisphere to be liberated through a successful slave revolt.
What is Haiti?
He was the King of France in power at the start of the French Revolution in 1789.
Who was King Louis XVI?
This 1763 British declaration prohibited American colonial settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Simón Bolívar and Father Miguel Hidalgo drew inspiration from successful revolutions in these two countries.
What are the United States and France?
The shift from the Age of Enlightenment into the Age of Revolutions was marked by individuals using this tool to guide political decisions and actions.
What is reason (or rational thought)?
This European country was the primary colonial power overthrown across most of Central and South America during the 1800s.
What is Spain?
A primary cause of the French Revolution was this financial problem affecting the Third Estate.
What is the inequality of the tax structure?
Thomas Paine wrote this famous pamphlet using Enlightenment ideas to convince American colonists to rebel against British rule.
What is "Common Sense"?
This U.S. policy issued in 1823 aimed to protect newly independent Latin American nations from European recolonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
English philosopher John Locke argued that all people are born with natural rights, which famously include life, liberty, and this.
What is property?
This major European nation was home to King Louis XVI, the Palace of Versailles, and the Bastille.
What is France?
This legislative body representing all three estates was called together in 1789 by Louis XVI after not meeting since 1614.
What is the Estates-General?
American colonists dumping British cargo into the harbor to protest unfair taxation without representation is famously depicted as this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This South American nation successfully gained its independence from Portugal between 1790 and 1828.
What is Brazil?
French revolutionary ideas about individual rights and popular sovereignty were clearly defined in this famous 1789 document.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Between 1790 and 1828, the political map of South America changed dramatically as many regions gained this status.
What is independence from European colonial rule?
During the Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre executed roughly 20,000 citizens in order to achieve this goal.
What is crushing all opposition to the revolution?
When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "All men are created equal," he meant that everyone should be entitled to this.
What are the same rights (natural rights)?
In his 1819 speech, Simón Bolívar advocated for a president whose power is strictly checked and limited by this document.
What is the Constitution (or law)?
Simón Bolívar's desire to overturn the rigid colonial social hierarchy aimed to take power away from this Spanish-born elite group.
Who were the Peninsulares?
The Proclamation of 1763 created a boundary prohibiting American colonists from settling west of this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?