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English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". Known for society contract.
John Locke
the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
American Revolution
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
feminism
descendants of Africans in the Americas who formed settlements away from slavery. They often mixed with indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures such as the Garifuna and the Mascogos.
Maroons
Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. known for his economic theory that markets tend to work best when the government leaves them alone.
Adam Smith
a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
French revolution
identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
Nationalism
the belief that society can and must voluntarily transition away from capitalism into a society run by co-operation and harmony.
Utopian socialists
French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
Voltaire
a series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804, was the overthrow of the French regime in Haiti by the Africans and their descendants who had been enslaved by the French and the establishment of an independent country founded and governed by former slaves.
Haitian revolution
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Capitalism
a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. This was also historically related to radicalism, a left-wing liberal tradition.
Fabian Society
Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
took place from 1688 to 1689 in England. ... The event ultimately changed how England was governed, giving Parliament more power over the monarchy and planting seeds for the beginnings of a political democracy.
English/Glorious Revolution
belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.
Deism
a Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World, Spanish East Indies, or Spanish Guinea.
peninsulares
Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. He led a successful slave revolt and emancipated the slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
Toussaint Louverture
reform and national consciousness movement that arose among young Filipino expatriates in the late 19th century. Although its adherents expressed loyalty to the Spanish colonial government, Spanish authorities harshly repressed the movement and executed its most prominent member, José Rizal.
Philippines Propaganda Movement
knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.
Empiricism
a racial classification used to refer to a person of a combined European and Indigenous American ancestry. The term was used as an ethnic/racial category for mixed-race castas that evolved during the Spanish Empire.
Mestizos