What was Montesquieu's influence on the U.S. Constitution?
Branches of Government/ Seperation of Powers
How were Thomas Hobbes and Catherine the Great similar?
Both believed monarchs should have absolute authority
European art of the 1600s and early 1700s was dominated by a grand, ornate style called?
Baroque
The philosophes influenced Cahterine the Great's proposal on reforms to which countries laws?
Russia
How did the Declaration of Independence embody Enlightenment ideals? a.It stated that all titles of nobility should be abolished b. It protected the rights of the accused and prohibited cruel punishment c.Said that people have rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness d. It set up system of checks and balances
C. Said that people have rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Who declared that women should have same political rights as men?
Marry Wollstonecraft
This philosopher was against the use of torture and other common abuses of justice.
Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
Political thinker who believed that all humans are naturually selfish and wicked. Said they needed an absolute monarchy to rule them.
Thomas Hobbes
He wanted tolerance, reason, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech
Voltaire
Said that civilization corrupts people's natural goodness. He also wanted direct democracy.
Jean Jaques Rousseau
He believed that people are reasonable and that everyone is born with natural rights.
John Locke
He wrote On the Sprit of the Laws where he proposed separation of powers
Baron de Montesquieu
What group spearheaded the independence movement in Latin America
Creoles
Jose de San Martin was a military officer who? a.Liberated parts of Mexico b.Liberated parts of Brazil c.Liberated parts of Spanish- speaking S. America d.Liberated spanish-speaking islands in the Caribbean
C. Liberated parts of Spanish- speaking S. America
The independence movement in Mexico was led, in part, by?
Miguel Hidalgo
Who led a revolt of enslaved Africans in Saint Domingue?
Toussaint L'Ouverture
What was a main difference between the liberation of Mexico and Brazil?
Mexico's liberation was violent while Brazil's was non-violent
A person of Latin America whose ancestry was ½ European and ½ Indian
Mestizo
Term in Latin America for those who were born in Spain
Peninsulares
He was known as Libertador
Simon Bolivar
Term in Latin America to describe people of mixed European and African ancestry.
Mulatto
After winning independence for Argentina and Chile, he gave up command of his army.
Jose de San Martin
He was a priest who was also a skillful military leader.
Jose Maria Morelos
He was a priest who issued the Grito de Dolores, a call for a peasant rebellion in Mexico.
Miguel Hidalgo
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson