The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was also known as the Age of ______________.
Reason
(Light is also acceptable)
This country assisted the American colonists in their war against the British - providing essential military support.
France
This device was used to execute thousands of people during the French Revolution.
The Guillotine
The Haitian Revolution was the only successful ____________ rebellion in World History.
Slave
In 1492 this person sailed the ocean blue
Christopher Columbus
The growing middle class wanted to learn how to read and write to engage with Enlightenment debate. As a result, we saw the rise of ________________ in the Atlantic World.
literacy
This man was perhaps the most well-known figure from the American Revolution, authoring its most famous document. He would go on to become the USA's third President.
Thomas Jefferson
Due to costly wars, the French government was in tremendous amounts of ___________ - one of the reasons it was primed for a revolution.
Haiti - as a colony - made France a ton of money, primarily because of the growth and sale of ________ crops that were grown on the island.
Cash
Argued against the Encomienda system
Bartolome de las Casas
Enlightenment discussions and debates would often happen in ________________, coffee houses, and taverns.
salons
This famous document - inspired by the Enlightenment - proclaimed that the American colonists were breaking free from the British crown.
The Declaration of Independence
This commander in the French army would eventually seize power and declare himself Emperor, in some ways ending the Revolution.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Most African Slaves in Pre-Revolution Haiti worked on large farms that required lots of manual labor. These types of farms are known as ____________________.
Enlightenment thinker advocating for womens rights
Mary Wollstonecraft
This Enlightenment thinker wrote about politics, and directly inspired the American Founding Fathers.
John Locke
The American colonists built up so much economic anger that they eventually chucked hundreds of chests of this good into the Boston Harbor.
Tea
Pre-Revolution France was divided into three of these, each representing a different group of people.
Estates
This former slave-turned-general was the leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
The "Enlightened Despot" of Russia
Catherine the Great
Before the Enlightenment, monarchs used this claim - saying they had been "chosen by God" - to justify their place as king or queen.
The Divine Right of Kings
This famous motto is what the American colonists would shout when asked how they felt about the British tax policy.
This civil rights document came out of the French Revolution and is considered one of the most important pieces of writing in World History.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Before the Revolution, Haiti was a French colony known as _________________________________.
St. Domingue
This person failed to circumnavigate the world as he died in the Philipines like a bum
Ferdinand Magellan