Chapter 21 terms

Question 1

Enlightenment

Answer 1

intellectual movement that applied the methods and questions of the Scientific Revolution to the study of human society

Question 2

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 2

American writer and inventor that symbolized the potential of America

Question 3

George Washington

Answer 3

leader of the American independence army

Question 4

Joseph Brant

Answer 4

Mohawk leader who worked with the British against the Americans

Question 5

Constitutional Convention

Answer 5

meeting of delegates in order to create a new constitution to run a country

Question 6

Estates-General

Answer 6

French national legislature before 1789

Question 7

National Assembly

Answer 7

legislature created by the French revolutionaries that demanded more rights for French citizens and limits on the king’s power

Question 8

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Answer 8

French documents laying out the rights that all people had

Question 9

Jacobins

Answer 9

extremist revolutionary group during the French Revolution

Question 10

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 10

leader of the French Revolution

Question 11

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 11

French general who seized power after the Revolution

Question 12

gens de couleur

Answer 12

free mixed race population of Haiti

Question 13

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Answer 13

leader of the Haitian Revolution

Question 14

Congress of Vienna

Answer 14

reestablished political order in Europe after Napoleon’s defeat

Question 15

Revolutions of 1848

Answer 15

a series of revolutions across Europe sparked by a second French Revolution