Unit 5 Flashcards
Simon Bolivar
Venezuelan soldier and statesman (AKA the liberator)
Led revolutions against Spain in New Granada
Secured independence of Ecuador and Peru
Robespierre
Radical Jacobin leader
Leader of the French revolution and reign of terror
Saint Domingue
French colony in the Western Caribbean
Grew to be rich off of sugar and coffee industry
Location of the Haitian revolution
John Locke
English philosopher
Believed all men are free by nature and are born with the rights of life, liberty, and property
Father Hidalgo
Led the Hidalgo-Morelos rebellion which sparked Latin American revolution
Gave the speech Grito de Dolores
AKA father of Mexican independence
Napoleon
French general, “heir to the revolution”
Developed the Napoleonic code
Initiated Napoleonic wars to take over Europe
Capitalism
An economic/political system where a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
Congress of Vienna
Meeting of European nations to make a strategy to maintain peace and stability in Europe
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan (swedish) philosopher
Believed in a social contract
Voltaire
French writer
Advocated civil liberties like freedom of religion and free trade
Believed in separation of church and state
Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher
AKA father of economics
Believed economic development was best in an environment of free competition
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer
Advocate for educational and social equality for women
Estate system
System where society was divided into 3 social classes
Determined people’s access to rights and privileges
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France during french revolution and wife of Louis XVI
Obsessed with materialistic things and had a spending problem
Louis XVI
Last king of France
Only king of France to ever be executed
Approved French military support for American revolution which nearly bankrupted France
