The American Revolution and the first years of the republic

true

false

Haitian Revolution

Mexican Revolution

Bolshevik Revolution

French Revolution

...the human mind is like a blank slate.

...the government's intervention in the economy must be minimal.

...any government's power emanates from the people.

...there are natural laws that rule the world's functioning.

...progress could only be achieved through reason.

...emotions and values must guide human decisions.

...the source of all political power emerged from a superior being.

...reason was the key to the knowledge of reality and the truth.

United States

France

Spain

Great Britain

...the principle of religious tolerance and condemned the Church's tyranny.

...the idea that the human mind was a blank slate.

...the idea that the human being had God-given or natural rights.

...that, in the case of tyranny, revolution was a legitimate means of political change.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Olympe de Gouges

Simone de Bouvoir

Mary Shelley

that individuals should pursue their own economic interest

that governments should not restrain the "natural flow" of economic forces

the principle of separation of powers in the government

the idea of a social contract