Unit 6: Reason & Revolution Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776, a precursor to modern capitalism.
  2. 6. person who assumes all financial risk in starting a business (business man)
  3. 9. A combination of the absolute monarchy and feudalism in France; it included the three estates.
  4. 10. An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in cities as opposed to the countryside.
  5. 11. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil; utilized during the c. 1750 time period and led to increased crop yields and growing population
  6. 12. Haitian revolutionary who led a successful slave uprising and helped establish an independent Haiti in 1797.
  7. 13. one of the deistic or materialistic writers and thinkers of the 18th century French Enlightenment.
  8. 14. in 1789 there were a series of slave revolts in the Caribbean sparked by the French and American Revolutions. Resulted in the formation of a black independent Haiti in 1803.
  9. 16. A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in England c. 1750
  10. 17. the history of the world from the Age of Enlightenment in the 1700s up to the present day.
  11. 18. the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one.
  12. 19. She was the queen of France at the start of the revolution; she was from Austria and spent too much money on herself
Down
  1. 1. Land, labor, and capital; the three groups of resources that are used to make all goods and services
  2. 3. a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others.
  3. 4. an event of panic and hysteria that swept across France in the summer of 1789 during the French Revolution.
  4. 5. 1776 statement, issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain.
  5. 7. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
  6. 8. Believed that all noble names should be abolish to earn equal rights.
  7. 15. The legislative branch of the French government prior to the French Revolution; it could meet only with permission from the king (May 5th, 1789)