Remember Rough Drafts are due tomorrow!!!
Chapter 16 Test is Friday
Study Questions and Vocabulary Lesson 1 and 2

Chapter 16 Lesson 1 Study Questions

Many enlightenment thinkers were interested in the rights of individuals. What does this suggest about governments in Europe at the time?

?? They did not protect individual rights
?? They were not responsible to the people they governed

What roles did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington play in the American Revolution?
?? Jefferson was the voice of the American Revolution
?? Washington commanded the American Army

How did the Constitution answer the concerns of people who disliked the idea of strong government?
?? It divided authority between the states and the central government
?? Divided the central government into three branches that checked and balanced one another??s authority

Why do you think the Bill of Rights was later added to the Constitution?
?? The Constitution itself did not offer enough protection of individual rights
What did the British control in 1783?
?? The land north of the Great Lakes

How did Louis XVI??s actions help start the French Revolution?
?? He increased taxes, all paid by the Third Estate

Why did the young revolutionaries who took over the government have Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and many nobles executed?
?? As part of their plan to break with the past and build a new society,
?? They wanted to get rid of those who had held all the power in the past

How did Napoleon??s attitude toward power contribute to both his rise and his fall?
?? As a military officer, Napoleon hungered for power, and his ambition drove him to take control of the government
?? As emperor, Napoleon wanted to extend his power beyond France and did so, but he set no limits and did not know where or when to stop, and so he opposed and brought down by armies from Britain and its allies

Why did the focus of the French Revolution change from human rights to terror?
?? New revolutionary leaders brought violence to France
?? They were upset at opposition to the revolution from inside and outside France

How did Napoleon affect Europe?
?? He conquered lands
?? Encouraged the spread of revolutionary ideas



How were Louis XVI and Napoleon alike? How were they different?
?? Alike: Neither wanted to share power with others
?? Different: Napoleon believed in the ideas of the revolution, but Louis XVI did not

Chapter 16 Lesson 2 Study Questions
Why did the peninsulars not respect the Creoles?

?? Because the Creoles were born in Latin America, not Europe

Why did the missionaries not treat the Indians as equals?
?? Because of the Indians?? social class

What do you think influenced the missionaries to help the Indians?
?? Their religious beliefs, which taught them to help other human beings

How was society in colonial Latin America organized?
?? Into several classes: peninsulars, Creoles, mestizos or mulattoes, and Africans and Indians

Why were the freed slaves in St Domingue not satisfied with the end of slavery in the colony?
?? Because the French still controlled the colony and the freed slaves wanted independence

Why did Creoles in Argentina and Venezuela set up juntas?
?? They wanted to govern themselves

What did the juntas do?
?? Replaced Spanish rule

Why did the Creoles dislike being ruled by distant government?
?? The Creoles wanted to control their own lives

How were the pathways to independence different in Brazil, Mexico, and Spanish South America?
?? Brazil won its independence peacefully,
?? Mexico and Spanish South America won their independence through revolutions

What three European countries controlled the Latin American colonies?
?? Spain, Portugal, and France

Why did people in the Latin American colonies seek to change their governments?
?? They had little say in government
?? They wanted to be free of the peninsulars?? rule
?? They wanted to control their own lives