Enlightenment Now!
Steven Pinker's book "The Better Angels of Our Nature" argues that violence has declined as our societies have progressed. He would've shared that idea with this Enlightenment author who argued about the State of Nature
Thomas Hobbes
She didn't let them eat cake. That's why she & Louis ended up where they did, I presume.
Marie Antoinette
This unfairly organized representative body tried to meet to solve the debt crisis
Estates General
This was the leader of the first Haitian revolution who wrote its first constitution.
Bonus pts if you say it right. Bonus bonus if you can spell it w/o looking.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
The prominent examples include Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass. Which one was born first?
Equiano
Steven Pinker's book "Rationality" argues for us to use reason to help us make moral progress. It's quite similar to the argument John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were making about this way to form a government
Social Contract (Theory)
Women didn't just want to vote - this was the ticket to freedom in the mind of many early feminists like Wollstonecraft and de la Cruz
Education; Literacy
This tower was famously stormed to free prisoners - gun-shaped prisoners
This Venezuelan creole became El Libertador
Simon Bolivar
This is the name of the antislavery movement that began in Britain and spread - thanks to prominent literary works and a powerful navy
Abolition
Steven Pinker's book "Enlightenment Now" calls for reason and science. What is that method of thought in which we use data and experiments to understand our world?
Empiricism
Daily Double!
Answers will vary
This became the governing body of France - it got pretty radical and tried to spread the Revolution to Europe!
The National Assembly
What is one key difference between the DOROMAC and the Haitian Constitution of 1805?
First article announces no more slavery; second announces that all men are equal regardless of race
These were the name given to people who escaped from slavery and made their own communities - if only they'd talked about it...
Maroons
Steven Pinker's book "The Blank Slate" argues that humans aren't actually born 'blank slates' but instead come with lots of pre-programmed ideas and behaviors. Enlightenment thinkers Wollstonecraft and Gouges wouldn't have thought Pinker was helping their cause, as their hopes for this representative right hinged on the argument that no one was naturally inferior to anyone else
(Women's or Universal) Suffrage
Name one of the American women who organized that one convention in 1848....
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
Bonus if you can name the convention and someone else who was there!
This ironically named body within the Revolutionary government guillotined a few thousand people and massacred upwards of 50,000 peasants.
*Bonus: Who led it?*
The Committee of Public Safety
Maximilian Robespierre
What are the two main points made in the Carta de Jamaica?
1. Pan-Americanism is an ideal to strive for
2. Pan-Americanism is impossible due to diversity
As one could read from Frederick Douglass, the day to day life of a slave was terribly challenging. This didn't change much for most slaves after emancipation - they engaged in this kind of labor through much of the Americas
*Bonus: When / From where were the last slaves in the Americas freed?
sharecropping
Steven Pinker is a pop-intellectual who has both supported and criticized this Enlightenment political concept (that we credit to John Locke) in which government stays out of our lives and exists mainly to uphold our rights.
Liberalism
Daughter of Wollstonecraft and early pioneer of science fiction - she wasn't very kind to Victor
Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley
Name one government action / policy started by Napoleon after his coup d'etat
Answers will vary
Give one example of Native American resistance to Spanish rule in Latin America - one with some Incan flare
Tupac's Rebellion
These oft-eponymous literary tracts demonstrated the inefficacy of compulsory labor and the myopia of essentialist discourses that informed existing racial hierarchies
Slave Narratives