1. What Were the Big Ideas of the Enlightenment?

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1. What were the big ideas of the Enlightenment?

2. Led by Toussaint L’Overture, slaves revolted and took over a country in the West Indies. This country was only the second nation in the Americas to gain its independence from foreign control.

3. In his book “The Wealth of Nations,” this man said government should not interfere in business; it would regulate itself through the “invisible hand” of competition in a free market. His approach is called “laissez faire” economics

4. With monarchs being overthrown in America and Europe, a new style of art replaced the grand, ornate style of the god kings. Both Napoleon and the builders of Washington, D.C. liked this new style of architecture.

5. What was Napoleon's biggest military mistake and the beginning of the end for Napoleon?

6. This naval engagement off the southwest coast of Spain maintained Britain as ruler of the waves and wrecked Napoleon’s plans to invade and conquer England.

NAME______DATE______BLOCK______

1. What were the big ideas of the Enlightenment?

2. Led by Toussaint L’Overture, slaves revolted and took over a country in the West Indies. This country was only the second nation in the Americas to gain its independence from foreign control.

3. In his book “The Wealth of Nations,” this man said government should not interfere in business; it would regulate itself through the “invisible hand” of competition in a free market. His approach is called “laissez faire” economics

4. With monarchs being overthrown in America and Europe, a new style of art replaced the grand, ornate style of the god kings. Both Napoleon and the builders of Washington, D.C. liked this new style of architecture.

5. What was Napoleon's biggest military mistake and the beginning of the end for Napoleon?

6. This naval engagement off the southwest coast of Spain maintained Britain as ruler of the waves and wrecked Napoleon’s plans to invade and conquer England.

NAME______DATE______BLOCK______

1. What were the big ideas of the Enlightenment?

2. Led by Toussaint L’Overture, slaves revolted and took over a country in the West Indies. This country was only the second nation in the Americas to gain its independence from foreign control.

3. In his book “The Wealth of Nations,” this man said government should not interfere in business; it would regulate itself through the “invisible hand” of competition in a free market. His approach is called “laissez faire” economics

4. With monarchs being overthrown in America and Europe, a new style of art replaced the grand, ornate style of the god kings. Both Napoleon and the builders of Washington, D.C. liked this new style of architecture.

5. What was Napoleon's biggest military mistake and the beginning of the end for Napoleon?

6. This naval engagement off the southwest coast of Spain maintained Britain as ruler of the waves and wrecked Napoleon’s plans to invade and conquer England.