Intellectual Movements
Movement led by philosophes aimed at using reason to understand the natural laws that guide humans and societies
Enlightenment
Natural rights of life, liberty, and property, and that people can overthrow their government if it doesn't protect their rights
John Locke
American colonists are angry at the high taxes and lack of representation in British Parliament
Mass Frustration
Abolished slavery by the end of the revolution
Haitian
Movement to discover mathematical laws that govern nature and the universe
Scientific Revolution
Women should be educated because they have the same natural rights as men
Mary Wollstonecraft
France is bankrupt after overspending on the American Revolution
State Crisis
Led to independence, and the establishment of the first republic in the Western Hemisphere
American
Scientist who established the scientific method
Bacon
Government should be separated into branches to prevent tyranny
Baron de Montesquieu
The American Revolution relies on wealthy, educated men like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to lead them and pay for the Continental Army
Dissident Elites
Inspired nationalist feelings, and permanently harmed the influence of the Catholic Church in this country
French
Copernicus first proposed that the earth revolves around the sun, contrary to thinking at the time, a theory called this
Heliocentrism
People become corrupted by inequality, so instead we should have direct democracy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People in France and Haiti want Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
Shared Motivation
Inspired Simon Bolivar and others from Mexico to Colombia to Argentina to gain independence from Spain
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