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How did the American and French Revolutions influence Latin American independence movements?

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How did the American and French Revolutions influence Latin American independence movements?

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1. Influence of the American and French Revolutions on Latin America

Slaves in Haiti rebelled, abolished slavery, and won independence.

Father Miguel Hidalgo started the Mexican independence movement.

French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies gained independence.

Selected countries that gained independence during the 1800s

Mexico

Haiti

• Colombia • Venezuela • Brazil

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What improved technologies and institutions were important to European economies? 

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What improved technologies and institutions were important to European economies? 

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What improved technologies and institutions were important to European economies?

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Who were some of the composers, artists, philosophers, and writers of the period? 

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Who were some of the composers, artists, philosophers, and writers of the period? 

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1. Representative artists, philosophers, and writers

Johann Sebastian Bach: Baroque composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Classical composer

• Voltaire: Philosopher

• Miguel de Cervantes: Novelist

• Eugène Delacroix: Painter (transition to the Romantic School of the nineteenth century)

New schools of art and forms of literature

Paintings depicted classical subjects, public events, natural scenes, and living people (portraits).

New forms of literature evolved—the novel (e.g., Cervantes’ Don Quixote

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HOW DID THE IDEAS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT CONTRIBUTE TO CAUSING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?

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HOW DID THE IDEAS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT CONTRIBUTE TO CAUSING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?

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1. Causes of the French Revolution

Influence of Enlightenment ideas

Influence of the American Revolution

Events of the French Revolution

Storming of the Bastille

Reign of Terror
Outcomes of the French Revolution

End of the absolute monarchy of Louis XVI

Rise of Napoleon

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HOW DID THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROMOTE REVOLUTION IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES?

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HOW DID THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROMOTE REVOLUTION IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES?

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1. Influence of the Enlightenment

2. • Political philosophies of the Enlightenment fueled revolution in the Americas and France.

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Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence incorporated Enlightenment ideas.

The Constitution of the United States of America and Bill of Rights incorporated Enlightenment ideas.

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how did the philosophers of the enlightenment influence thinking on political issues?

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how did the philosophers of the enlightenment influence thinking on political issues?

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The Enlightenment

Applied reason to the human world, not just the natural world

Stimulated religious tolerance

Fueled democratic revolutions around the

world