Enlightenment Thinkers
This philosopher argued for the separation of powers in government to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
Who is Montesquieu?
This event led to the overthrow of the French monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic.
What is the French Revolution?
This is the term for a grievance list created by the Third Estate in France in 1789.
What are the Cahiers de Doléances?
This event marked the fall of the Romanov dynasty and the rise of Bolshevik rule in Russia.
What is the Russian Revolution of 1917?
This is the country where the Haitian Revolution took place.
What is Haiti?
This English philosopher's ideas about natural rights and the social contract influenced both the American and French revolutions.
Who is John Locke?
The revolt of these individuals in St. Domingue led to the creation of Haiti as the first independent black republic.
Who are the Haitian slaves?
This influential document, published in 1848, argued for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the creation of a classless society.
What is The Communist Manifesto?
This 1789 event sparked the French Revolution by storming a symbol of royal tyranny.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This European country colonized most of South America, including regions that would become Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia.
What is Spain?
This French writer argued for the importance of individual freedoms and the separation of church and state in his work, "Candide."
Who is Voltaire?
This South American leader is known for his role in the independence movements of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This historic French document declared that men are born free and equal in rights, and that government exists to protect these rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
This battle in 1815 marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This country is located in the Caribbean and became independent following a revolution led by slaves and free Mulattoes.
What is Haiti?
This thinker believed that government should have the consent of the governed and that people are naturally good.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This document, signed in 1789, was inspired by Enlightenment ideas and set forth the rights of man and citizen.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
This 1791 French satirical illustration depicts the excesses of the French monarchy under Louis XVI.
What is the etching of Louis XVI as Gargantua?
This event led to the end of apartheid in South Africa.
What is the end of the apartheid regime?
This is the continent where most of the colonies involved in the Age of Imperialism were located.
What is Africa?
This British philosopher believed in a strong, centralized government and that people are naturally selfish and need a ruler to prevent chaos.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This philosopher's ideas about government by consent influenced both the French Revolution and the rise of democratic principles.
Who is Montesquieu?
This 1815 letter from a South American independence leader discusses the struggles of the American people to break free from colonial rule.
What is Simón Bolívar’s “Jamaica Letter”?
The signing of this treaty in 1919 ended World War I and imposed harsh terms on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This country in South America was led by Simón Bolívar and became independent from Spain in the early 1800s.
What is Venezuela?