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Session Length
~17 min
Adaptive Checks
15 questions
Transfer Probes
8
The period from 1750 to 1900 witnessed revolutionary transformations across politics, economics, and society. Enlightenment ideas about natural rights, popular sovereignty, and reason challenged traditional authority. The American Revolution (1776) established a republic based on constitutional government. The French Revolution (1789) overthrew monarchy and proclaimed liberty, equality, and fraternity, but descended into the Terror and Napoleon rule.
The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) became the only successful large-scale slave revolt, creating the first Black republic. Latin American independence movements led by Bolivar and others ended Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule. The Industrial Revolution transformed production from artisan workshops to mechanized factories, creating new social classes and reshaping cities.
These revolutions collectively dismantled old orders and built the foundations of the modern world.
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18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, natural rights, popular sovereignty, and the social contract as foundations for legitimate government.
Example: John Locke argued that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed and that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
The idea that government is an agreement between rulers and the ruled, where the people grant authority in exchange for protection of their rights.
Example: Rousseau wrote that legitimate political authority must be based on the general will of the people.
The transformation of production from manual labor and artisan workshops to mechanized factory systems, beginning in Britain in the late 18th century.
Example: The spinning jenny and water frame mechanized textile production, moving it from cottages to factories.
The principle that the authority of government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
Example: The Declaration of Independence stated that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
The belief that people sharing a common language, culture, and history constitute a nation and should have their own sovereign state.
Example: Simon Bolivar invoked shared Latin American identity to unite diverse populations against Spanish colonial rule.
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