Starter quiz
- The founders of the French Republic founded their new country along similar lines to the Americans, calling for freedom, ______ and fraternity.
- 'equality' ✓
- Which European monarchies fought against the new French republic?
- Britain ✓
- Spain
- Russia ✓
- Austria ✓
- Prussia ✓
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- The Caribbean island known as Saint-Domingue was a __________ colony.
- British
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French ✓
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- Which of these statements best describes the population of Saint-Domingue in the 1790s?
- Enslaved Africans, European settlers, free people of African and Taíno origin ✓
- Enslaved Africans and European settlers
- Free people of African and Taino origin alongside European settlers
- Enslaved Africans alongside free people of African and Taino origin
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- The leader of the Haitian Revolution was Touissaint...
- 'Louverture' ✓
- The Haitian revolution did inspire other enslaved peoples to rise up and revolt in other Caribbean islands such as Jamaica and...
- 'Barbados' ✓
Exit quiz
- True or false?: philosophers who were part of the Enlightenment movement criticised absolutist governments and monarchs.
- True ✓
- False
- Put these revolutions in chronological order, starting with the earliest.
- 1⇔The American Revolution
- 2⇔The French Revolution
- 3⇔The Haitian Revolution
- Approximately how many enslaved Africans were captive in the French colony of Saint Domingue?
- 500
- 5000
- 50 000
- 500 000 ✓
- 5 000 000
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- What did the Enlightenment inspire people to do?
- support their own governments and monarchs
- challenge their own governments and monarchs ✓
- emigrate to get away from governments and monarchs
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- The Enlightenment led to the execution of the French king, Louis XVI, in what year?
- '1793' ✓
- What is the term given to a country without a monarch?
- 'republic' ✓
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Key learning points
- The Enlightenment was a series of ideas that criticised absolutist governments.
- The Enlightenment inspired groups of people to challenge their governments.
- The American Revolution was inspired by Enlightened ideas.
- The French Revolution was inspired by the Americans and Enlightenment ideas.
- The Enlightenment ideas inspired further revolutions across the world.
Common misconception
The Enlightenment did not just cause the American Revolution, it played a major role in the causation of the French and Haitian Revolutions too.
Keywords
Enlightenment - the Enlightenment was a movement in the 1600s and 1700s that promoted the use of reason and questioned authority
Social contract - a social contract is an agreement that rulers should govern in a way that benefits the people in exchange for having power over them
Revolution - a revolution is the forcible overthrow of a government, a great or complete change
Settlers - settlers are people who have arrived to live in a new area of land
Ancien régime - the Ancien Régime was the name for the political and social system in France before the Revolution, ruled by the monarch: King Louis XVI
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