French Revolution
This holiday is celebrated in France to commemorate the beginning of the revolution.
Bastille Day
This American Revolution document had a heavy influence on the revolutionary movements of the late 1700s and 1800s
The Declaration of Independence
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed this model of the solar system, revolutionizing the concept at the time
Heliocentric
A government where the power lies in the hands of the people is known as a...
Democracy
This bloody phase of the French Revolution saw mass executions using the Guilllotine
This social and ethnic class took the lead during the Latin American revolutions
Creoles
This Englishman developed the scientific method
One of the first women's rights activists, this Brit is well known for her work "Vindication of the Rights of Women"
Mary Wollstonecraft
The division of France's population into three groups, who met as this political body
The Estates-General
Known as the Liberator, this man was the leader of multiple independence movements in Latin America
Simon Bolivar
Isaac Newton is well known for this contribution - a physics trinity that is still well used today
The Three Laws of Motion
This belief, popularized by John Locke, argues that government and a people enter into an agreement with each other
The Social Contract
The famous civil rights document to come out of the French Revolution was the...
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This French colony would go through it's own revolution and be renamed Haiti upon its independence
St. Domingue
The Italian astronomer who was accused of heresy by the Catholic church and forced to recant his findings was...
Galileo Galilei
This Frenchman became well known for his criticism of organized religion and advocacy for religious tolerance
Voltaire
This King was beheaded as the revolution took on a more radical nature
Louis XVI
This man is considered the leader of the Mexican Independence movement
Father Hidalgo
The emphasis placed on logic and reason during the Scientific Revolution is known as...
rationalism
Father of Capitalism and free-market economics Adam Smith developed this concept, which states that people acting selfishly will benefit society as a whole.
The Invisible Hand