Reason & Revolution

5. Was an important leader of the Haïtian Revolution and the first leader of a free Haiti; in a long struggle again the institution of slavery, he led the blacks to victory over the whites and free coloreds and secured native control over the colony in 1797, calling himself a dictator.
6. Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern Capitalism
10. The period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterized European society during the 'long' 18th century: from the late 17th century to the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815
11. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
14. Land, labor, and capital; the three groups of resources that are used to make all goods and services
16. A person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business
17. Distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong
18. The first ten amendments to the Constitution
20. The Political and Social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
21. The development of industries for the machine production of goods

1. Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state
2. Believed people in their natural state were basically good but that they were corrupted by the evils of society, especially the uneven distribution of property
3. Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; (1755-1793)
4. A major influence of the Latin American revolutions because of its successfulness; the only successful slave revolt in history; it is led by Toussaint Louverture
7. An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
8. A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
9. system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
12. Free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding
13. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
15. 1783-1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule
19. French for "philosopher"; applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment