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Simon Bolivar

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A crusader for South America who liberated colonies from Spain and brought Enlightenment

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The Enlightenment

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A European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism

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Rights of man

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The declaration of the rights of man a fundamental document of the French revolution and in the history of human and civil rights

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The Haitian Revolution

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A successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial movement that took place in Haiti that lasted from 1789-1804

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The French revolution

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Was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789-1799

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The American Revolution

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War of Independence waged by the American colonies against Britain influenced political ideas and revolutions around the globe, as a fledgling, largely disconnected nation won it's freedom from the greatest military force of its time.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary wars.

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Liberalism

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Is a political philosophy or worldview funded on ideas of liberty and equality.

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Adam Smith

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Was a moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in Scottish Enlightenment

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Bourgeoisie

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Originally a term meaning the urban middle class, Marx defined it as the owners of the means of production under capitalism.

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Capitalism

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An economic system in which the means of production-machines, factories, and land and other forms of wealth are privately owned.

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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

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Worked together to write the communist manifesto 1848, founded Marxist theory together, 1840's

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The industrial revolution

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Change in the production of goods that substituted mechanical power for humans energy, beginning around 1750 in Britain and western Europe. It vastly increased the world's productivity.

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The steam engine

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Invented in England in 1698. The first invention to set off the industrial revolution and increased mechanization.

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The opium war

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1839-1842 Opium use made the Chinese workforce less effective and the volume of money leaving the Chinese economy was bringing it down. Opium was coming from British controlled India.

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The Slave Trade

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The Atlantic slave trade peaked in the late 18th century, when the largest number of slaves were captured on raiding expeditions into the interior of West Africa.