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Assignment:

Answer the following questions:

1. What was the significance of such conflicts as the War of Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the 1739 war between Spain and Britain, and the Seven Years War?
2. Explain how the enlightenment challenged the Old Order and monarchs?
3. Does Benjamin Franklin or John Locke better serve as the ideal person to represent the ideas that emerged during the Enlightenment?
4. What evidence exists to support the following claim? "Like the Renaissance, the Enlightenment changed the world."
5. Was the American Revolution an unlawful rebellion?
6. Why might the US Constitution be considered the most significant political document ever written?
7. What impact did the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Rights of Man have on both the revolutionary efforts of America and France as well as the political rights of the citizens of each respective nation?
8. What would Jean-Jacques Rousseau's perspective be on the American Revolution?
9. Which of the following had a greater impact on the world; the Reformation or the Enlightenment? Why?
10. What actions did Robespierre's take as the head of the Committee of Public Safety?
11. Why can Napoleon Bonaparte and Louis XVI be considered tyrants?
12. What impact did the Enlightenment have on Europe, Latin America and North America?
13. What reasons did the Haitian people have for rebelling? How do these reasons compare to those given by the English colonists in America and the people of France?
14. Explain how the Enlightenment affected societies over time, include slavery and feudalism?
15. What was unique about the rebellion in Haiti and what role did Toussaint le Oveture?
16. During the Reign of Terror, 7% of the people executed were clergy, 8% nobility, 14% upper middle class, 11% lower middle class, 31% working class and 28% were peasants. How do these statistics support the Jacobin approach to the revolution?
17. Why can Napoleon Bonaparte and George Washington both be considered effective leaders?
18. Compare the American, Haitian and French Revolutions? What are the similarities and differences?
19. What was the impact of the Revolutions of 1848?
20. In what ways are Joseph Brant and the Jacobins similar?
21. Explain the difference between nationalism and the Enlightenment and how they both promoted Revolution?
22. Explain causes and effects of the various revolutions in the period from 1750 to 1900?