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Revolution
The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
Industrial & Agricultural Revolution
Revolution
100
British industrial success depended on cotton grown in other places for this reason.
What is the wrong climate?
100
He was the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution. He helped transform Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous slave colony of the time, into the first free colonial society to have explicitly rejected race as the basis of social ranking.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
100
Inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and property (or pursuit of happiness), that John Locke (and Thomas Jefferson) advocated for.
What are natural rights?
100
New practices and technologies that contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
What are textiles (mechanized spinning of cotton), steam power (steam engines for trains and ships), railroads, assembly lines, etc.?
100
The Three Estates that existed in France prior to its 1789 revolution.
What are the First (clergy), Second (nobility), and Third (everyone else) Estates?
200
The first fossil fuel that supported the development of industry in Britain and later Europe?
What is coal?
200
This medieval church did not pay taxes and wielded enormous power in France.
What is the Catholic Church?
200
Ideas (incorporated into our Constitution) advocated by Baron de Montesquieu that would limit the power of government.
What are the "separation of powers" (i.e. 3 branches) and "checks and balances"?
200
New farming practices and technologies that contributed to the Agricultural Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.
What are crop rotation, the iron plow (with interchangeable parts), the cotton gin, mechanized reapers and harvesters, grain elevators, and, ultimately, steam-powered tractors, etc.
200
The only French estate (or class) to pay taxes.
What is the Third Estate?
300
A system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals.
What is mercantilism?
300
The United States responded to Haitian independence by taking this action.
What is a trade embargo?
300
The First Amendment freedom that Voltaire argued in favor of.
What is free speech?
300
Effect of Industrial Revolution on European populations.
What is urbanization (moving to the city for factory jobs)?
300
A French legislative body called by Louis XVI that included all three French Estates. It was not interested in an overhaul of the French social, economic, and political systems.
What is the Estates General?
400
King of France from 1774 until his deposition in 1792, although his formal title after 1791 was King of the French. He was guillotined on 21 January 1793.
Who is Louis XVI?
400
The two primary crops grown in Venezuela before the revolution.
What are coffee and cocoa?
400
Enlightenment ideas and ideals inspired these revolutions.
What are the American, French, Haitian, and Latin American, revolutions?
400
The reason that human population experienced a dramatic drop in population during the 14th Century.
What is the Black Death?
400
The structure that resulted from the "Oath of the Tennis Court" at the meeting of the third estate.
What is the National Assembly?
500
Support of this event caused the French government to develop an enormous debt.
What is the American Revolution?
500
The social groups in Venezuela from most to least powerful.
Who are: Peninsulares Hacendados Criollos Mestizos
500
This French philosophe argued that the power of government comes from the consent of the governed (popular sovereignty) based on a social contract between people and governments.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
500
Reasons some countries "industrialized" before others.
What are natural resources (namely iron and coal), capital investment (money and capital goods), education (science and engineering), etc.?
500
The French radical Maximilien Robespierre ordered thousands of executions (mostly by guillotine) literally causing the streets to run red with blood during this "reign." Ironically, he too was executed by guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?