Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
Copernicus’ heliocentric model, Newton’s law of gravitation, and Descartes’ belief in truth through reason gave Europeans a new way to…
What is viewing humankind’s place in the universe?
Abbé Sieyès said the Third Estate wanted to become “something.” What did they want?
What is more power in the political system?
Which individual is most closely associated with Latin American independence movements?
Who is Simón Bolívar?
The British Factory Acts limited child labor, while the Public Health Act improved housing and water. This shows…
What is government can enact policies to respond to poor working conditions and health crises?
Newton, Galileo, Bacon, and Descartes contributed to this major shift in European thought.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws argued for this principle of government.
What is separation of powers?
The Haitian Revolution was fueled by shared ideas that…
What is social injustice should end and liberty should be granted to all people?
Toussaint L’Ouverture, Bolívar, and San Martín all led independence movements in this region.
What is Latin America?
The Industrial Revolution began in this country.
What is Great Britain?
This Enlightenment thinker wrote Two Treatises of Government and supported natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
John Locke believed men joined societies to preserve life, liberty, and property. This supports the idea of a…
What is a Social Contract?
Enlightenment ideas inspired Haitian slaves to interpret liberty in terms of…
What is emancipation and/or sovereignty?
Which situation helped cause the political changes in South America between 1790–1828?
What is the spread of Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas?
Daily Double
Name the 3 Estates and the members of each
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen established that men are born…
What is free and equal in rights?
Olympe de Gouges, author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen, supported this action.
What is the expansion of equality across all aspects of society?
Which 18th-century situation in France is considered a major cause of the revolution?
What is the unfair policies of taxation?
Which conclusion can be drawn from the colonial caste system?
What is the more European you were, the more power you had?
During the 19th century in Latin America, the Catholic Church and military supported the interests of which group?
Who are wealthy landowners?
This political impact of Napoleon’s conquests in Europe was shown on maps.
What is that the French Empire directly or indirectly controlled most of Western Europe?
The Enlightenment most directly inspired these cultural developments that influenced both the American and French Revolutions.
What is the establishment of basic human rights and the elimination of aristocratic privileges?
The French Revolutionaries struggled to realize the ideals that helped start the revolution. This is shown by…
What is the changing governments
Daily Double
Who led the revolution in Mexico against the Spanish?
What was the most significant effect of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe?
What is sparking revolutions throughout the Americas and France?
According to Hutton Webster (1921), which document provided France with a formula for liberty?
What is the Declaration of Independence?