The American Colonies
What is a sugar baron?
A wealthy and powerful person who owned sugar plantations
What is the Enlightenment?
A period in European history that emphasized reason, science, and individualism over tradition and authority.
This event in 1773 protested British taxation policies and sparked tensions leading to the American Revolution.
The Boston Tea Party
This event in 1789 marked the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution and the storming of a royal fortress.
The Storming of the Bastille
This former slave led the Haitian Revolution and became the first leader of independent Haiti.
Toussaint Louverture
Field worker, domestic servant, carpenter
This English philosopher's ideas on natural rights influenced the Declaration of Independence in the United States.
John Locke
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, declared the American colonies' were separated from Great Britain and they listed their grievances against Great Britain
The Declaration of Independence
This political body, formed in 1789, was created to represent the three estates of French society and address grievances.
The Estates-General?
What was Haiti called before independence?
Saint-Domingue
Where is Pocahontas buried?
England
This French philosopher is famous for his advocacy of freedom of speech and separation of church and state in his work "Candide."
Voltaire
This battle, occurring in 1775, marked the beginning of armed conflict between American colonists and British forces.
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
This period from 1793 to 1794 was marked by political purges, mass executions, and the consolidation of power by radical revolutionaries.
The Reign of Terror
This French leader sent troops to suppress the Haitian Revolution but ultimately failed to reestablish French control.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who was Pocahontas?
The chief's daughter who seemed to save John Smith, married another English "John", and moved to England.
This Enlightenment idea asserted that individuals have certain fundamental rights that governments must protect.
Natural Rights
This pamphlet, published in 1776, argued for American independence and inspired colonists to join the Revolutionary cause.
This political group during the French Revolution favored extreme measures against counter-revolutionaries and enemies of the revolution.
Why did Frances revolutionary ideas scare the rest of Europe?
They were afraid that the ideas would spread to their kingdoms which were ran by a monarchy
What did sugar barons receive from the British government as part of the ending of slavery?
Money for their lost enslaved people
This feminist writer and philosopher lived and France and wrote about the sans-culottes perspective. She also argued for equal education for women in her work "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
Mary Wollstonecraft
This phrase, associated with the American Revolution, signifies the colonists' desire for self-governance and freedom from British rule.
"No taxation without representation"
Made up of three groups, this social class, representing about 98% of the French population, played a significant role in the French Revolution. Name the social class and the three groups within
The Third Estate- The Bourgeoise, Sans-Coulotte, and Peasants
Describe how the English viewed the French Revolution, based on the drawing shown in the notes?
Saw the revolutionaries as savage cannibals who were stealing form the royals and resorting to unlimited violence