Enlightenment
This movement encouraged people to use reason and logic to understand the world
What is The Enlightenment?
This country ruled the American colonies before independence.
What is Great Britain/England?
France was ruled by this king at the start of the French Revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI?
The Haitian Revolution took place in this French colony.
(Answer is not Haiti)
What is Saint-Domingue?
A territory with borders and an organized government.
This Enlightenment idea says people are born with rights like life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
Colonists protested this unfair practice by Britain: being taxed without having a say in government.
What is taxation without representation?
This estate made up about 97% of the French population, had little political power, but paid a majority of taxes.
What is the Third Estate?
This group led the revolt against French rule in Haiti.
A group of people who share a common culture, history, or identity.
What is a nation?
This thinker believed governments exist to protect natural rights.
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Church Leaders were a part of this estate
What is the First Estate?
This leader helped guide the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
A country where people share both a government and a cultural identity.
What is a nation-state?
This Enlightenment idea states that government power comes from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This document, written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson, declared that the colonies were independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This French document stated that people had equal rights and freedoms.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Haiti became independent in this year.
What is 1804?
The United States after the American Revolution is an example of this.
This idea explains that people can change or overthrow a government that does not protect their rights.
What is the social contract?
This battle in 1781 effectively ended major fighting in the American Revolution.
What is the battle of Yorktown?
This leader rose to power after the French revolution and later invaded Portugal and Spain.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Haitian Revolution is historically unique because it was the only successful __________ in history.
What is a slave revolt?
A government with clear borders but many different cultures and ethnic groups inside it is best described as this.