The Renaissance & The Enlightenment Flashcards
Slavery being abolished in a variety of countries.
Abolition of Slavery
An epic political military struggle when 13 of Britain’s North American colonies rejected its imperial rule.
American Revolution (Began in 1776)
Complete rejection of religious belief and any notion of divine beings.
Atheism
A feminist movement arose and women began to demand equality in all areas of life.
Call for Women’s Suffrage
There was a god that created all things but no longer intervened in how they went.
Deism
People have the right to vote and influence the policies of the government.
Democracy
The idea that true knowledge is gained through senses, mainly through rigorous experimentation.
Empiricism
Serfdom becomes more and more unnecessary to economic flourishing.
End of Serfdom
Suffrage means the right to vote, along with basic rights.
Expansion of Suffrage
A period of major social upheaval in France caused by the dissatisfaction of the common people with the absolute monarchy of King Louis XVI.
French Revolution (Began in 1789)
Successful slave uprising against the French Colonial rule in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)
Haitian Revolution (Began in 1791)
The most basic element of society was the individual human and not the collective group.
Individualism
A series of independence that took place across the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Latin America during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Latin American Revolution
An economic and political ideology that emphasized the protection of civil rights, representative government, the protection of private property, and economic freedom.
Liberalism
The American, French, Haitian, and Latin Revolutions.
Major Revolutions
A sense of commonality among a people based on shared language, religion, social customs, and often linked with a desire for territory.
Nationalism
A sense of commonality among a people based on shared language, religion, social customs, and often a desire for territory.
Nationalism
Individual humans are born with certain rights that cannot be infringed upon by governments or any other entity.
Natural Rights
The development of new ideologies and systems of government.
New ways of Thinking
Widespread discontent with monarchist and imperial rule.
Political Dissent
The power to government was in the hands of the people.
Popular Sovereignty
Reason rather than emotion or any external authority, is the most reliable source of true knowledge.
Rationalism
Human societies, endowed with natural rights, must construct governments of their own will to protect their natural rights.
Social Contract
An intellectual movement that applied new ways of understanding such as nationalism, and empiricist approaches to both the natural world and human relationships.
The Enlightenment
