Causes of the French Revolution
This social class carried the tax burden in pre-revolutionary France.
Who were the Third Estate?
This thinker argued people are born with life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This new governing body was created when the Third Estate broke away from the Estates-General in 1789.
What is the National Assembly?
This leader fought for independence in Haiti.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
What is it encouraged people to question authority and seek reforms?
Poor harvests and rising bread prices pushed many peasants and city workers to this.
What is revolt/unrest?
Montesquieu supported this division of government power.
What is separation of powers?
This event marked the official start of the French Revolution in July 1789 when Parisians stormed a prison and armory to seize gunpowder and weapons.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Simón Bolivar argued in his Jamaica Letter that South America needed this in order to successfully gain independence.
What is unity?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen established these basic principles in France.
What are equality before the law and protection of individual rights?
This system unfairly divided French society into three unequal groups.
What is the Estates System?
Locke argued that government exists because people agree to one of these.
What is a social contract?
One major result of the Revolution was this fate for King Louis XVI.
What is he was executed/beheaded?
Bolivar was influenced by these European thinkers.
Who are Enlightenment thinkers?
Napoleon's conquests in Europe disrupted Spanish control over colonies in the Americas.
What is it created opportunities for independence movements in Latin America?
Louis XVI ruled as this type of monarch, which gave him complete control.
What is an absolute monarch?
This Enlightenment thinker believed people are naturally good, but society corrupts them, and government should be based on the "general will."
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
During this radical phase led by Maximilien Robespierre, thousands were executed for "disloyalty."
What is the Reign of Terror?
Both Haiti and Latin American independence movements were inspired by this European Revolution.
What is the French Revolution?
The Reign of Terror eliminated opposition to the revolutionary government.
What is it strengthened the radical phase of the French Revolution?
France went deeply into debt after helping in this foreign war.
What is the American Revolution?
This Enlightenment thinker used satire in works like Candide to criticize absolute monarchy and religious intolerance.
Who is Voltaire?
This leader rose to power after the Revolution and expanded French territory.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Why is Africa?
The economic crisis in France, including unemployment and inflated bread prices, combined with Enlightenment ideas.
What is it led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the rise of revolutionary governments?