Unit 2

Who Said It?

100

"Humans are naturally cruel, selfish, and hungry for power"

Thomas Hobbs 

200

"People are born with natural rights, such as Life, Liberty, and Property"

John Locke

300

“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire 

400

"Power must be a check to power" (Separation of branches)

Baron de Montesquieu

500

"People are naturally good, but power corrupts them"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Absolute Monarchs

100

The belief that God gave me the right to rule as king.

Divine Right

200

"The Sun King"

King Louis XIV

300

Pretended to be a homeless person to learn the needs of his people.

Peter the Great

400

Had a constitutional Monarchy. 

Created the Anglican Church.

Elizabeth I

500

Member of the Hapsburg family..

Created a great Armada to defeat England.

Phillip II

North American Rev.

100

What law outlawed colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?

Proclamation of 1763

200

1770 Event that resulted in the deaths of five civilians. Escalated the tension between the colonists and Great Britain.

Boston Massacre 

300

Document that stated "Americans had Inalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness". 

Declaration of Independence 

400

Act that directly taxed all printed materials

Stamp Act

500

System of government where power is shared between a central national government, and smaller state governments.

Federalism

Latin American Rev.

100

500,000 of the 570,000 people living on this colony were slaves

Haiti 

200

Led a massive slave revolt that eventually resulted in the colony gaining their independence.

Toussaint Louverture

300

Define "Peninsulares" 

A Spaniard born in Spain 

400

Which two key figures led the fight for Mexico's independence?

Miguel Hidalgo

Jose Morelos

500

"The Liberator" 

Simone Bolivar 

French Rev.

100

Ancient Governing body that consists of all 3 French estates.

Estates General

200

Led the French Revolutionary government after the execution of King Louis XVI. Loved the Guillotine. 

Maximilien Robespierre

300

Seized power of France in 1799 trough a Coup.

Napoleon 

400

Document that:

Collected taxes from all classes, creates a national banking system, encouraged new industry, ended corruption in the gov’t by making jobs based on merit.

Spread to what ever territory the French liberated.

Napoleonic Code

500

The two Islands Napoleon was Exiled to.

Elba

St. Helena