Enlightenment and Revolutions

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Which movement in the 1700s promoted reason, liberty, and self determination?

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The Enlightenment

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What is the name of the movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation due to intense pride?

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Nationalism

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The Haitian revolution was the only revolution of the period 1750 to 1900 that was initiated and fought by: Creoles, Mestizos, Foreign mercenaries, Slaves

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Slaves

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The American and French Revolutions were both caused in part by: Food shortages owing to poor harvests, Problems of royal succession, High taxation that bred discontent, Lack of social mobility in the peasant class

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High taxation that bred discontent

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The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:

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Natural Rights

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

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Montesquieu

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The concept that people have to agree to be governed. If the government fails to protect their rights, people can revolt and abolish the government.

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Social Contract

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This Enlightenment thinker believed in freedom of speech

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Voltaire

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What was a major cause of the French Revolution?

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inequalities in the tax structure

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Prior to the French Revolution, France was deep in debt because: money spent on the American Revolution, the monarchy's lavish spending, the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes, all of the above

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all of the above