Enlightenment
What are your Natural Rights?
Life, Liberty, and Property/Happiness
Who were the Americans revolting against?
The British
Who was the King of France during the French Revolution?
Louie the 16th
Who was Haiti a colony of?
France
What were the two European countries that controlled South America?
Spain and Portugal
What is the theory that states: If your government is not successful in protecting the people, the people have a right to overthrow their government?
Social Contract
What caused the American Revolution?
Taxation without representation, Boston Tea Party/Massacre, Increased Taxes, the Enlightenment
Which estate paid taxes in French society?
The Third Estate
Who was the Leader of the Haitian Revolution?
Toussaint Louverture
What country had a similar Social Hierarchy system as the Spanish?
Hati
What new religious ideas came out of the Enlightenment?
Atheism and Deism, Separation of Church and State
What made the American Revolution so revolutionary?
Which group within the third estate was wealthy but lacked political power?
Bourgoise
What rights were included within the Haitian Constitution?
End of slavery, freedom of racial discrimination
Which group of people within the Spanish Social Hierarchy system felt the most disenfranchised.
The Creoles
Which countries utilized Enlightenment ideas in their revolution?
All of them
How did property rights change in the American Revolution?
They didn't
Which document gave the people of the French Revolution equality, natural rights, representation, and freedom of religion?
The Declaration Rights of Man
Why is the Hatian Revolution seen as profound or exceptional?
First independence undertaken by slaves.
What were the reasons behind the Latin American Revolutions?
Wanted independence from colonial powers, Freedom from Mercantilist Policies, Creoles wanted political power
Identify an Enlightenment thinker from the time period
John Lock, Thomas Hobbs, Mary Wolfstone Craft, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Fredrick Douglas, Adam Smith
Which groups of people did not receive rights from the American Revolution
Women, Slaves, Men without Property
What was the period that was after the French Revolution but before Napoleon
The Reign of Terror
How did the Enlightenment influence the Haitian Revolution?
Ideas of Freedom sparking revolution, Toussaint educated in France,
How did Enlightenment Ideas inspire Creoles to declare independence from Spain?
Equal representation, equal rights