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Atlantic Revolutions key concepts and terms review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| key people of the enlightenment | John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Thomas Hobbes |
| Natural Rights | Everyone is born with rights such as life , liberty and property |
| Social contract | Government=Protection of rights |
| popular sovereignty | Gov gets its power from the people |
| Big idea of enlightenment | Believed in reason, Rights and limiting the power of he government |
| Causes of the American revolution | French and Indian war, No taxation without rep, Stamp act, Townshend's act, Boston massacre, Boston tea party, Intolerable acts, |
| impact of the Amr Rev | Created a independent republic based on enlightened idea but freedom and liberty were not extended to everyone |
| Causes of the French Revolution | Social inequality (three estates), Finical crisis, unfair taxation, enlightened ideas, food shortage, weak leadership |
| The national assembly | a group formed by the third estate in 1789 during the French revolution |
| storming of bastille | angry French citizens attacked a prison in Paris to get weapons and gunpowder |
| The reign of terror | a period in the French rev when thousands of people were executed for being suspected enemies of the revolution |
| What did Napoleon bring | brought many reforms to France including the Napoleonic code, and religious freedom, while limiting individual rights |
| Napoleonic wars | a series of wars in which napoleon fought against European counties trying to expand the French empire |
| defeat of napoleon | after his failure in Russia, he was finally defeated in the battle for water loo against Britain and pursier, and was then exiled to saint Helena |
| congress of Vienna | a meeting of Europe's leaders to restore Europe's boundary's and restore peach to the European world |
| Toussaint L' Overture | he was the leader of the Haitian Revolution, a successful slave revolt against the French rule |
| social structure of South America | A strict social hierarchy based on Birthplace, Race and ancestry |
| Simon bolivar | A Revolutionary leader who helped south American countries gain independence form Spain |
| Jose de San Martin | Helped Argentina, Chile, and Peru against Spanish rule |