The Enlightenment
What are John Locke's natural rights?
What are life, liberty, and property?
What was the Declaration of Independence?
What was the formal declaration of War by the colonists to the British?
Who was in each Estate of the French Estate sytem?
Who was the Roman Catholic Clergy in the first estate, the nobles in the second estate, and the rest of France in the third estate?
What was the population/demographics of Haiti under the French?
What was 90% slaves and 10% white slave owners?
What happened to Napoleon's army when they tried to invade Russia?
What was they ran out of supplies and had to retreat? Only a small number of soldiers made it back alive.
What is the social contract?
What is the idea that people give up some of their rights to the government, and in exchange the government protects the people?
What was the United States Constitution?
What was the founding document that established laws in the newly independent United States of America?
What were the complaints that the French had that led to Revolution?
What were unfair taxation, starvation, and unequal representation?
What was the French name of Haiti before Haitian independence?
What was Saint Domingue?
What was the Napoleonic Code?
What was France's first set of laws protecting individual and property rights?
What did Rousseau argue about the rich?
What is the rich should not have special privileges?
What was the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
What is the first Battle of the Revolutionary War? The British were after a colonial weapons store, but the colonists stopped them.
What was the Declaration of the Right of the Man and of the Citizen?
What was a document stating the intention of the National Assembly to create a France where all men had equal rights and fair representation?
Who was Toussaint Louverture?
Who was a former slave that led a slave rebellion?
What happened to Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo?
What was he lost the battle and was exiled to the island of Saint Helena?
What did Beccaria argue about criminal punishment?
What is the punishment should fit the crime?
What does "Taxation without Representation" mean?
What is the British colonial argument that there should be no taxation without representation of the people in Parliament?
What event began the French Revolution?
What was the storming of the Bastille?
Who was ruling France at the time of the Haitian Revolution?
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
What country did Napoleon first defeat when he came to power?
What was Austria?
What is the difference in thinking between the Enlightenment and the Renaissance?
What is in the Enlightenment, people focused on science and looked to human reason for knowledge. In the Renaissance, people focused on art, and looked to the church for knowledge.
What was the French and Indian War?
What is a war between the French and the British. The French wanted the British colonial territory, and the British defended the colonists.
What was the Thermidorian Reaction?
What was a moderate phase that came about after the death of Robespierre as a reaction to the extremism of the Reign of Terror?
Who was Jean-Jaques Dessalines?
Who was a leader of a Haitian uprising and the first emperor of Haiti?
What was the name of the Island where Napoleon was exiled the first time?
What was Elba?