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| 6428110937 | Protestant reformation and scientific revolution | People began questioning authority, such as absolute monarchs, and the church | 0 | |
| 6428110938 | Deism | The believe that God created the earth but does not interfere | 1 | |
| 6428110939 | Descates | Said "I think, therefore I am" | 2 | |
| 6428110940 | Enlightenment movement | Beginning of modern era. And intellectual and political movement in which people apply the rational thinking of the scientific revolution to human society and government. People seek to understand human nature and begin to view the relationship between the government and its citizens differently. People start to question absolutism | 3 | |
| 6428110941 | Source of evil | Previously thought to result from sin or loss of connection with God but the discovery of mental illness explains actions of many people written about in the Bible. For example mental diseases such as schizophrenia were previously thought to be some sort of demonic possession | 4 | |
| 6428110942 | Divine right of kings | Began to be questioned because religion was being questioned. therefore absolute monarchs were questioned | 5 | |
| 6428110943 | Philosophes | People who drink coffee and talked about political and scientific ideas. Examples are Voltaire and Rousseau | 6 | |
| 6428110944 | Locke | Came up with an idea called Tabula Rasa | 7 | |
| 6428110945 | Tabula Rasa | Means "blank slate" in Latin. The idea that people are born as blank slates and become who they are your education or experiences. Led to the debate of nature versus nurture | 8 | |
| 6428110946 | Montesquieu | "Spirit of the laws;" separation of political power; Direct response to absolutism; impact on today can be seen in the checks and balances system | 9 | |
| 6428110947 | Voltaire | Said "I disagree with what you say but I defend to the death your right to say it." Impact on today I can be seen in the first amendment of the Constitution which includes freedom of speech, press, religion and the right to assembly | 10 | |
| 6428110948 | Rousseau | "Social Contract;" popular sovereignty: monarchs governed by the will of the people, in whom power rests. Vaguely similar to the mandate of heaven however in the mandate of heaven Power was achieved through the universe but the people were entitled to have a say and overthrow monarchs. Some believe that the government should be changed every 2 to 3 generations to prevent corruption | 11 | |
| 6428110949 | Beccaria | "Crime and Punishment;" View the death penalty as abhorrent and ineffective as a deterrent. Disagreed with public executions which were extremely common at the time and were often used as entertainment | 12 | |
| 6428110950 | Causes of the French Revolution | Absolutism and monarchs abusing their positions | 13 | |
| 6428110951 | Causes of the French revolution | Versailles; overindulgent life of kings led to many taxes | 14 | |
| 6428110952 | Causes of the French revolution | Wars were expensive and France was involved in the revolutionary war and the French and Indian war | 15 | |
| 6428110953 | Causes of the French revolution | Unequal class system | 16 | |
| 6428110954 | Causes of the French revolution | Taxes/Taille | 17 | |
| 6428110955 | Causes of the French | Food crisis was the most immediate cause. | 18 | |
| 6428110956 | Meeting of estates general | One of the causes of the French revolution; occurred in May 1789 and was the first time this meeting had been held and 175 years | 19 | |
| 6428110957 | Common causes of all four Atlantic revolutions | Enlightenment thinking and lower class rebelling against the upper-class | 20 | |
| 6428110958 | Haitian Revolution | Fighting for freedom from France in the abolition of slavery. Multiply gained independence from France but was quite on successful in the long run. Radical racial policies of Dessalines ensued. Haiti burned much of its forest and farmland and is now the poorest Caribbean country | 21 | |
| 6428110959 | Haiti | Sugar capital of the world | 22 | |
| 6428110960 | St. Domaigne | Island that contains Haiti on the west and the Dominican republic on the east. The black population outnumbered the white population 9 to 1. White slaveowners where especially brutal to the slaves. Became the most wealthy colony in the Caribbean and greatly enriched the French economy | 23 | |
| 6428110961 | Toussaint L'Overture | Lead Haitian revolution from 1791 to 1803 and encouraged policies to unify blacks and whites | 24 | |
| 6428110962 | Dessalines | How did radical anti white policies and wanted to kick out all whites from Haiti | 25 | |
| 6428110963 | French revolution | Caused by absolutism under Louis XVI, any quality within the three estates for weather that led to a food crisis and a financial crisis. Enlightenment thinking was realized and inequality be universe and the poor caused tension. The declaration of the rights of man cave people inherent rights. Resulted in the abolition of the monarchy but also in the Raina tower where tens of thousands were killed many from the third estate that the French revolution was supposed to protect. Napoleon rose to power and a constitutional monarchy a rose under Louis XVIII | 26 | |
| 6428110964 | American revolution | Most successful of the Atlantic revolutions. Lead to democracy in unity | 27 | |
| 6428110965 | Latin American revolution | Failed to democratize and unify. Latin America is much bigger than the US and has a north to south axis geography making it more difficult to unify. Let America is awesome madness and has a tropical rain forest/jungle. In the US people were able to build railroads and canals but in Latin America this was impossible because of the rain forest and mountains. The north to south axis caused drastically different climates. The language barrier was difficult to overcome and there are many different races and racial mixtures. Latin America is much more diverse in the US and had no practice and self government or autonomy like the US did | 28 | |
| 6428110966 | Bolivar | Dreamed of the United States of Latin America but the streams proved futile and failed | 29 | |
| 6428110967 | Monoculture | Because of plantations entire countries depended on one or two cash crops for sustenance. | 30 | |
| 6428110968 | United fruit company | Owned land in countries such as Guatemala and reap the benefits of the plantations there. Can be considered de facto slavery. Heavy focus on growing bananas in Guatemala. Problem with only going bananas and watermelon is that there were to be a virus like there is today the bananas would be threatened | 31 | |
| 6428110969 | Guano | Bird/bad poop that was a major export for Great Britain and used for fertilizer | 32 | |
| 6428110970 | United States and Britain | Invested heavily into railroads even though many failed. We're depending on by Latin America and became neo colonial powers, achieving economic imperialism | 33 | |
| 6428110971 | Latin America | Became dependent on the US and Britain even after their independence and did not deal with internal problems such as the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was a problem because it mostly sided with the Richwhite people. Race was also more complicated and Latin America because they were whites blacks Indian and maxes although whites owned the most land. Caudillos brought Latin America into a spiral of dictatorship | 34 | |
| 6428110972 | Caudillo | Part cowboy part dictator. | 35 | |
| 6428110973 | Monroe doctrine | 1823 US pledge to support the newly independent countries in Latin America and promised to defend them against the Europeans. America told Brittany to back off Latin America but America is a very young country didn't have a very develop the military | 36 | |
| 6428110974 | Westward expansion | 1830s Andrew Jackson and the trail of tears. Americans encounter natives and Mexicans. Used manifest destiny to justify expansion. US begins to look more like an empire and USB into encounter many other countries. Clashes put United States in contact with Mexicans | 37 | |
| 6428110975 | Manifest destiny | Philosophical justification for American conquest and expansion that says that God will get us to expand from sea to shining sea | 38 | |
| 6428110976 | Mexican American War | 1846 Americans won all territory north of Rio Grande including Texas New Mexico parts of Utah and the rest of the American Southwest | 39 | |
| 6428110977 | Porfirio Diaz | 1877 through 1911 the United States became friends with Porfirio Diaz because he was allowing us to invest millions of dollars into the Mexican economy | 40 | |
| 6428110978 | Second Mexican Revolution | 1910 America intervened in the revolution to ensure that American businesses were not negatively affected and still making money | 41 | |
| 6428110979 | Spanish-American war | 1898 allowed US to become an imperial power. Occurred because America thought that the Spanish sunk the USS Maine battleship. The Spanish lady was destroyed in Cuba in the Philippines by the U.S. Navy. Do US is now a superpower and gets Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Spanish-American war means the end of the Spanish Empire | 42 | |
| 6428110980 | First Cuban revolution | 1867 Spanish crushed the rebellion | 43 | |
| 6428110981 | Second Cuban revolution | In the early 1890s Jose Marti advocated for cuba with rallies and. "Cuba Libre" chant. | 44 | |
| 6428110982 | Cuba-platt amendment | America grants Cuba freedom as long as they allow the US to make money from Cuban economy, have a military base, remain stable country, and allow the US to intervene in affairs. | 45 | |
| 6428110983 | Panama canal | 1914 workers succumbed to tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. The dense rainforest made it hard to build. Important for the US because it enabled the US to ship goods from New York to California by ship rather than train, which was more cost-effective. Signifies a global shift because the US is now more in the center of the universe politically economically and socially | 46 | |
| 6428712326 | Revolution of Tupac Amaru | 1780s indigenous result | 47 | |
| 6428712327 | Mestizo | Mixed race Latin American | 48 | |
| 6428712328 | Causes of the Latin American revolution | Enlightenment ideas the American, Haitian, and French revolutions, napoleonic invasions, bourbon reforms | 49 | |
| 6428712329 | Miguel Hidalgo | 1810 begins Mexican Revolution live in Spain | 50 | |
| 6428712330 | Simon Bolivar and Jose De San Martin | Free northern South America from Spain | 51 | |
| 6428712331 | Battle of Ayachucho | 1824 Spain was defeated and the last Viceroy was captured | 52 | |
| 6428712332 | Bourbon reforms | Spanish attempts to strengthen control over Latin America failed | 53 | |
| 6428712333 | 1825 | Most of Latin America was independent by | 54 |
