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Aim: Review for test on The French Revolution & Latin American Independence.

Aim: Review for test on The French Revolution & Latin American Independence. Do Now : Reminder: bring a #2 pencil and a pen. Extra Credit: Complete Castlelearning and receive an 80 or better. Essay Topics : Cause and results of revolutions. 1. Scientific Revolution.

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Aim: Review for test on The French Revolution & Latin American Independence.

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  1. Aim: Review for test on The French Revolution & Latin American Independence. Do Now: Reminder: bring a #2 pencil and a pen. Extra Credit: Complete Castlelearning and receive an 80 or better. Essay Topics: Cause and results of revolutions.

  2. 1. Scientific Revolution • Revolution is a change. • Science was not only based on observation. • Scientists started to experiment. • Scientific method. • Opposed by the church.

  3. 2. The Enlightenment • Intellectual Revolution. • John Locke- natural rights (life, liberty and property). • Social Contract. • Right to Revolution. • Montesquieu- separation of powers and a system of checks and balances.

  4. 3. Impact of Enlightenment • Encouraged revolutions- America, France and Latin America. • Ideas included in the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.

  5. 4A. French Revolution • causes: high taxes on the 3rd estate, France was in debt (bankrupt), 3rd estate owned no land, impact of the Enlightenment. • Results: Napoleon ends the French Revolution. Established a military dictatorship. Napoleonic Law Code- said everyone was equal. Bank of France, University of France. Conquer all of Europe.

  6. 4B. Latin America • Causes: mercantilism, encomienda system, strict class system, influence of American and French Revolutions. • Results: Bolivar gains independence. Becomes first president of Bolivia. Unstable nations.

  7. 5A. Spanish Rule- Political • Political- government. People of Latin America had no say in the government. Viceroy.

  8. 5B. Economic • Economic- mercantilism- colony provides raw materials to mother country. Mother country makes a finished product and sells it back. • Encomienda system- large plantations.

  9. 5C. Social • Social- class structure: Peninsulares, Creoles, mestizos, slaves.

  10. 6A. Important People- France • Robespierre- Reign of Terror- killed anyone who opposed him. • Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. • Napoleon ends the revolution with a coup d’ etat.

  11. 6B. Important People- L.A. • Haiti- Toussant L’Overture- born a slave. Liberated Haiti. France wanted Haiti for profitable sugar cane. Died a year before independence in a French prison. French soldiers got malaria and yellow fever. 1st nation to gain independence. • -Simon Bolivar- “The Liberator” and “The George Washington of South America.” Liberated- Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Argentina. Goal- United Gran Colombia.

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