The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was also known as the Age of ______________.
Reason
(Light is also acceptable)
This country assisted the American colonists in their war against the British - providing essential military support.
France
This device was used to execute thousands of people during the French Revolution.
The Guillotine
The Haitian Revolution was the only successful ____________ rebellion in World History.
Slave
Almost all of the Latin American Revolutions were rebellions against this European Country.
Spain
The growing middle class wanted to learn how to read and write to engage with Enlightenment debate. As a result, we saw the rise of ________________ in the Atlantic World.
literacy
This man was perhaps the most well-known figure from the American Revolution, authoring its most famous document. He would go on to become the USA's third President.
Thomas Jefferson
Due to costly wars, the French government was in tremendous amounts of ___________ - one of the reasons it was primed for a revolution.
Haiti - as a colony - made France a ton of money, primarily because of the growth and sale of ________ crops that were grown on the island.
Cash
These two classes were at the bottom of the social pyramid in Latin America.
Native Americans and Africans
Enlightenment discussions and debates would often happen in ________________, coffee houses, and taverns.
salons
This famous document - inspired by the Enlightenment - proclaimed that the American colonists were breaking free from the British crown.
The Declaration of Independence
This commander in the French army would eventually seize power and declare himself Emperor, in some ways ending the Revolution.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Most African Slaves in Pre-Revolution Haiti worked on large farms that required lots of manual labor. These types of farms are known as ____________________.
The Creoles were the leaders of the Latin American Revolutions. These were people of European descent who were born in...
The New World/The Spanish Colonies/New Spain/The Americas
This Enlightenment thinker wrote about politics, and directly inspired the American Founding Fathers.
John Locke
The American colonists built up so much economic anger that they eventually chucked hundreds of chests of this good into the Boston Harbor.
Tea
Pre-Revolution France was divided into three of these, each representing a different group of people.
Estates
This former slave-turned-general was the leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
This Creole and military officer is considered the leader of many of the Latin American Revolutions.
Simon Bolivar
Before the Enlightenment, monarchs used this claim - saying they had been "chosen by God" - to justify their place as king or queen.
The Divine Right of Kings
This famous motto is what the American colonists would shout when asked how they felt about the British tax policy.
This civil rights document came out of the French Revolution and is considered one of the most important pieces of writing in World History.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Before the Revolution, Haiti was a French colony known as _________________________________.
St. Domingue
This document is the most well-known piece of writing to come out of the Latin American Revolutions.
Letter from Jamaica