Unit 5: Revolutions

What does Enlightenment mean?

• An intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.

• the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.

• the action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth.

Did Thomas Paine write "Common Sense" ?

• Yes.

• No.

In which two revolutions was the growing power of the middle class a major cause of revolt?

• Creole and American

• French and American

• Haitian and French

What product did the United States produce, during the nineteenth century?

• Cattle

• Rubber

• Wheat

• Sugar

Draw the Spinning Jenny that was invented by James Hargreaves in the 1760s.

What did the Declaration of Independence express?

• Philosophy behind the colonists' fight against British rule.

• Fighting for the fun of it.

• I don't know

What was a comparison of the Haitian and French Revolution?

• They believed that legal restraints were limiting the freedom of people by forcing them into different social classes.

• Wanted to start a conflict to rise against the other.

• They both fought.

The ____________ revolution resulted in increased productivity.

What were labor unions?

Draw Thomas Jefferson.