Unit 1: Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment both encouraged what?
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment both encouraged the spread of new ideas and the use of reason (logic)
1) Enlightenment philosophers- society could be improved by using reason (logic) and natural law
2) Enlightenment philosophers believed that governments receive their authority (power) from the people (NOT from God).
3) believed in democracy (a gov’t where the people have a say).
Who became leader of the radical wing of the revolutionary government known as the Reign of Terror?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Led the revolt of Haiti against the French; Haiti was the first country to gain independence in Latin American.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
To set down rules for European nations to divide Africa up among themselves into colonies
This multinational organization was created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe.
What is NATO?
Which philosopher believed in natural rights (the right to life, liberty, and property). and people have the right to overthrow governments that fail to protect these rights.
John Locke
The principles of the American Revolution and the French Revolution are similar in many ways.
What type of government did they both favor?
A. Dictatorship
B. Monarchy
C. Representative Government
C. Representative Government
Led revolts for freedom in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. Nicknamed the "Great Liberator".
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Name THREE negative impacts of British imperialism in India
British held much of the economic and political power
British restricted Indian-owned industries
Emphasis on cash crops led to loss of self-sufficiency for many villagers
Reduced food production, causing famines
Threats to Indian traditional life
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations
Warsaw Pact
Which philosopher believed in government should be divided into three branches (executive, legislative, judicial) so that there is a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances.
Baron de Montesquieu
Before the revolution, who paid all of the taxes in France?
A. the First Estate
B. the Second Estate
C. the Third Estate
C. the Third Estate
Catholic priest who led the Mexican independence movement in 1810.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?
A political idea that enforced the idea of everyone having equal ownership of everything.
Communism
The attempt to exterminate the Jewish race by the Germans.
What is the Holocaust?
Which philosopher believed in believed that society is a social contract (an agreement in which all people agree to work for the common good of society).
Rousseau
The most significant cause of the French Revolution.
A. Economic Inequality
B. Social Inequality
C. Both Economic and Social Inequality
C. Both Economic and Social Inequality
People who mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry; held few rights in Latin American; wanted to revolt.
What are Mestizoes?
Karl Marx believed that this ideology led to prosperity for a few and poverty for many
What is Capitalism
September 1, 1939 Hitler invades officially beginning WW2?
What is Poland?
Prior to the French Revolution, the government headed by King Louis XVI was a(n)
A. Constitutional Monarchy
B. Absolute Monarchy
B. Absolute Monarchy
This country controlled Saint Domingue (modern day Haiti)
French
name 3 communist countries
China, Cuba, North Korea
Name one of the 2 cities that the United States dropped atomic bombs on.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima