Enlightenment terms
French Revolution
important people
Atlantic Revolutions
extras
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The idea all humans are born with the right to life, liberty, and property. 

what are natural rights

100

government in which all power resides in a single ruler, whose authority is often derived from a royal bloodline and/or religion

what is absolute monarchy

100

founding enlightenment thinker who developed the theory of natural rights and social contract. 

John Locke

100

first successful slave revolt, resulting in the establishment of Haiti as the first independent Black state in the New World 

what is Haitian Revolution

100

Individual who challenged previously accepted theory of the universe by advocating for the heliocentric model/theory which places the sun at the center of the universe instead of the Earth.

what is Galileo

200

legal end of slavery brought to by slave revolts and abolitionist movement.

what is abolition

200

group of people in France comprised of merchants, to poor peasants. Paid 100% taxes but held no political power.

what is third state. 

200

Absolute monarch who ruled pre-revolution France. 

what is Louis the XVI

200

policy that allowed "mother country" to tax and control commerce in colonies, increasing discontent with among colonial elites and motivated independence movements.

what is Mercantilism

200

French Playwright who advocated for French Revolution ideals of natural rights to apply to  women. Executed by guillotine during the reign of Terror. 

what is Olympe de Gouges

300
separates government into three branches to prevent tyranny

what is separation of powers. 

300

Maximilien Robespierre led this violent period in which tens of thousands of French victims were executed

what is Reign of Terror

300

Military leader who became emperor of France and conquered most of Europe. Spread revolutionary ideas and Napoleonic code but created national resistance.

what is Napoleon Bonaparte

300

 richest colony in the world, produced 40% of the world’s sugar, ½ of its coffee, made up of 8,000 plantations and over 90% of this French colony’s population were enslaved Africans. 

what is Saint Domingue. 

300

19th century movement: shared group feeling of belonging to an specific community defined by its geographic region and shared language, history, culture, and ethnicity.

what is nationalism.

400

enlightenment idea that rulers derive their power form the people (consent of the governed); challenged the status quo idea of divine rights and absolute monarchy.

what is popular sovereignty

400

Euro leaders gathered to restore old monarchies and balance power after the fall of Napoleon

what is congress of Vienna. 

400

creole leader of South American independence who failed to achieve his dream of unifying South America, as written in the “Jamaica Letter,” 1815

what is Simon Bolivar
400

Native born elites of European ancestry who grew increasingly discontent with Spain's effort to assert authority over colonies. Key sponsors of independence movements. 

creoles

400

"the politics of reality". Politics that is based on practical or real life situations. Supported by Otto Von Bismarck. 

what is realpolitik

500

theoretical agreement between and ruler and people, which would be broken if state no longer safeguards the natural rights of people and the people can form a new government. 

what is social contract.

500
document written by representatives of the 3rd state called the national assembly, in which they expressed complaints 
declaration of the rights of man and citizen
500

British Feminist who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman advocating for equal rights for women

what is Mary Wollstonecraft.

500
former slave whose political and military leadership were essential in success of Haitian revolution. 

what is Toussant L'Overture

500

these two countries who became unified through nationalism.

What is Italy and Germany.

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