The Enlightenment
Impact of the Enlightenment
American Revolution
French Revolution
Latin American Revolutions
100

The idea that power comes from a source of divinity such as God.

Divine Right

100
What style of Art was popular during the Enlightenment?
Neoclassical
100

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

100

Frances unequal classes would lead to revolution, from which class did rich nobles belong?

Second Estate

100
This poor but educated priest led the Mexican Revolution

Miguel Hidalgo

200

This French philosophe established the concept of Separation of Powers?

Baron de Montesquieu

200

This economic system based on private ownership fueled by desire from profit was thought of by Adam Smith

Capitalism

200

Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Interdependence

Thomas Jefferson

200

Similar to America's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" this event was the symbolic beginning of the Franch Revolution

Storming of the Bastille

200

The First Latin American colony to free itself from European rule

Haiti

300

The Enlightenment is also known as the age of...

Reason

300
What type of government did Rousseau support?
Direct Democracy
300

Which Enlightenment philosopher most influenced the American Revolution?

John Locke

300

This period under the leadership of Maximilian Robespierre resulted in the execution of thousands of "traitors" within French government and society 

Reign of Terror

300

Who were the two creole leaders that helped lead the revolutions in South America?

Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin

400

This method from a previous intellectual revolution gave Enlightenment thinkers a model to follow as they made new theories on society

Scientific Method

400

With so many new innovations in science, art and politics Denis Diderot summarized them all in a collection known as the first

Encyclopedia 

400

The political policy used by England in which American colonists were able to make their own laws

Salutary Neglect

400

What country was Napoleon and his army unable to consistently defeat, unlike the Russians they didn't need to burn their cities to avoid invasion

England

400

Unlike the South American revolutions, in Mexico, the revolutions were led by ___________.

Natives and Mestizos 

500

"People are naturally evil and need and absolute monarch to protect them from themselves" would most likely have been said by this famous philsophe

Thomas Hobbes

500

Rulers who began to listen to Enlightenment ideas such as Catherine the Great, were known as 

Enlightened Despots 

500

What is the name of the Treaty that granted the US independence from Britain and all lands east of the Mississippi River?

The Treaty of Paris 1783

500

This was Napoleon's final defeat against the British before his permanent exile and eventual death

Battle of Waterloo

500

Simon Bolivar wished to unite all of South America under a single country called

Gran Columbia