#3 Revolutions

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b. tension and cooperation between religion and new scientific discoveries;

c. impact of Galileo’s ideas and the introduction of the scientific method as a means of understanding the universe;

d. events and ideas that led to parliamentary government (English civil war, glorious revolution);

e. enlightenment philosophies used to support events leading to American and French revolutions (i.e., Diderot, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Voltaire, Beccaria, and Mary Wollstonecraft)

f. Napoleonic era (e.g., codification of law); Napoleon’s three costly mistakes, and scorched-earth policy)

1. What systematic problems did 18th Century France have in the way it collected taxes?

2. Other than bankruptcy, what other factors contributed to tensions in France?

3. What radical move was carried out by the National Assembly on August 4th?

4. What was the Women’s March and what fueled it?

5. Why might the first phase of the French Revolution be considered not so revolutionary?

6. Why did Louis XVI and the National Assembly decide to invade Austria? What was the result?

7. What time period of the revolution was marked by the death of Louis XVI and why is it significant?

8. If not revolutionary, what does John Green argue made the French Revolution so radical?

g.Latin America’s wars of independence: (i.e., European cause of wars: Simon Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo, and Toussaint L’Ouverture)

1. In Latin American society, what three institutions exercised control over the populations?

2. What is transculturation and why is it significant?

3. By 1800, about how many people in Latin America were of multiracial heritage?

4. Why, in 1807, did the entire Portuguese royal family flee to Brazil?

5. Who is Prince Pedro and how did he influence Brazil’s history?

6. What two priests led revolts in Mexico?

7. Through what methods did Simón Bolívar unite Latin Americans to rise up against Spain?

8. With a few exceptions in the Caribbean and South America, by what year was almost the entire western hemisphere free of European rule?

Conceptual Thinking

1. Consider the following quote by Francisco de Miranda with regard to Latin American revolutions:

“We have before our eyes two great examples, the American and the French Revolutions. Let us prudently imitate the first and carefully shun the second.”