AGE OF REVOLUTIONS REVIEW SHEET
Terms to Know
 Voltaire
 Rousseau
 Locke
 Montesquieu
 English Civil War
 English Bill of Rights
 American Revolution
 Stamp Act
 Declaration of
Independence
 French Revolution
 Nationalism
 1st , 2nd & 3rd Estates
People to Know
 Louis XVI
 Robespierre
 Napoleon
 Toussaint L’Ouverture
 Dessalines
 Simon Bolivar
 Jose de San Martin
 Bernardo O’Higgins
 Declaration of the
Rights of Man &
Citizen
 “Liberty, Equality &
Fraternity”
 Guillotine
 Continental System
 Napoleonic Code
 Congress of Vienna
 Conservativism
 Liberalism
 Radical/Reactionary
 Women’s suffrage
 Seneca Falls
 Romanticism
 Gran Colombia
 United Provinces of
Central America
 Peninsulares
 Creoles
 Mestizo
 Caudillos
 Cash/staple crops
 Greek Revolution
 Maroon societies
 Abolition of slavery
 Anti-Semitism
 Zionism
 Miguel Hidalgo
 Augustin de Iturbide
 Count Cavour
 Giuseppe Garibaldi
 Giuseppe Mazzini
 Otto von Bismarck
 Pedro I
 Mary Wollstonecraft
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 Olympe de Gouges
 William Wilberforce
 Alfred Dreyfus
 Theodor Herzl
 Klemens von Metternich
Questions to Consider:
1. How did Enlightenment principles challenge established traditions?
2. What were the causes, internal & external impacts of the French Revolution?
3. How did the Congress of Vienna try to restore the “balance of power” in Europe in 1815?
4. Were the 1848 revolutions successful? Why/not?
5. Why was Haiti’s slave revolt successful where others failed?
6. How was Brazil’s independence movement different from the majority of Latin America?
7. Why was Bolivar’s dream of a Gran Colombia ultimately not achievable?
8. What are the main arguments of the conservatives and liberals in 19th century politics?
9. What vestiges of colonialism existed in 19th century Latin America? (How did Latin
America change & remain the same after colonialism?)
10. Compare Italian unification with German unification.
11. How is Greek independence representative of Ottoman relations in the Balkan Peninsula
during the 19th century?
12. How did nationalism lead to political change, independence movements, the break-up of
multinational empires and state consolidation?
13. How did social constructs change in the 19th century?