Eyo, Galileo
The first to explain the laws of gravity and motion.
Who was Isaac Newton?
An era of thought that emphasized reason, rationalism, and individualism.
What is the Enlightenment?
This document was written to King George III in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A lawyer of the Third Estate, he is largely responsible for the execution of about 20,000 French citizens.
Who is Robespierre?
The name of the island we now know as Haiti while it was under French rule.
What is Saint-Domingue?
Linnaeus created this type of system to sort the entire animal kingdom.
What is a taxonomy?
Inspired Thomas Jefferson and many of the American revolutionaries.
Who is John Locke?
Many scholars believe this act passed by the British Parliament marks the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
Watching troops advance on Paris, the poor citizens gathered and began this event.
What is the Attack on Bastille?
He was a former slave who became a general who fought for abolition and independence from France.
Who was Touissant L'Ouverture?
He created a system that began the use of the term "caucasian" to mean someone with fair skin and European background.
Who is Blumenbach?
This document was largely inspired by the Enlightenment philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and proclaimed the right to freedom of thought.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man?
When the American colonists dressed as "Indians" and boarded a ship in Boston Harbor, they were protesting this new law.
What is the Tea Act?
During the Reign of Terror, Louis XVI and almost 17,000 others were beheaded with this device.
What is the guillotine?
Free black people on the island of Haiti under French occupation.
Who are gens de couleur?
Copernicus spent much of his life locked in his house because of this discovery?
What is the heliocentric model of the solar system?
He believed that life was nasty, brutish, and short.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
He created a print of the Boston Massacre that was placed in many colonial newspapers and served to incite many American colonists to join the fight for independence.
Who is Paul Revere?
This French leader who came to power during the Revolution is most known in the United States for selling Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson.
Who is Napoleon?
Haiti produced 60% of the world's coffee and 40% of this other crop.
What is sugar?
Galileo Galile discovered the Earth was part of this star system.
What is the Milky Way?
Adam Smith is sometimes referred to as the father of this economic system.
What is capitalism?
He served as the US Ambassador to France in the 1780s and thus witnessed much of the violence of their revolution.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Watching the new French society struggle to stay together, Robespierre decided to start this new kind of republic where all citizens would be forced to participate.
What is a Republic of Virtue?
He was a free mulatto who led a slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue in 1790, sparking the revolution.
Who is Vincent Oge?