Enlightenment Thinkers
This philosopher believed everyone is born with rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
A major change in government or society.
What is a revolution?
Ideas that inspired many revolutions in the 1700s and 1800s.
What are Enlightenment ideas?
The main goal of the Haitian Revolution.
What is independence and ending slavery?
Enlightenment ideas most influenced these revolutions.
What are Latin American revolutions?
Enlightenment thinkers believed society could be improved by applying this to create better lives.
What is Reason?
A major cause of the American Revolution
What are high taxes without representation?
The French king executed during the revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
The revolution that successfully ended slavery in Haiti.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
A key leader in Latin American independence movements.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This thinker famously said he would defend your right to say things, even if he disagreed with them.
Voltaire
The document that declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A prison whose storming symbolized the start of the revolution.
What is the Bastille?
The European country Haiti fought against.
What is France?
The social class that led most Latin American revolutions.
Who are the Creoles?
He proposed "Separation of Powers" so that the legislative and executive branches wouldn't be controlled by one person.
Who is Montesquieu?
The empire the American colonies fought against.
What is Great Britain?
A period marked by mass political executions.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
A common result of Latin American revolutions.
What is independence from Spain?
This philosopher believed government should follow the "general will" of the people.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
An Enlightenment idea reflected in the American Revolution.
What are natural rights / individual rights?
The social group that made up the Third Estate.
Who are the common people?
Why the Haitian Revolution was historically significant.
What is it created the first free Black republic?
The group that often gained power after revolutions.
Who are the middle and upper classes?