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Same liberty, three different answers

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  1. Which thinker argued rulers need the consent of the governed?

    • A ship captain
    • A tax collector
    • Locke

  2. What did Enlightenment thinkers claim about government?

    • It should rest on reason and consent of the governed
    • Kings rule by divine right forever
    • Laws should never be questioned

  3. America, France, and Haiti all used words about liberty.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. How did the three revolutions differ on who counted as the people?

    • All three freed every enslaved person
    • None of them mentioned liberty
    • America kept slavery, France swung, Haiti freed the enslaved

  5. A pamphlet printed in one port is debated across the ocean within weeks. What does this show?

    • Each revolution happened in isolation
    • Atlantic Revolutions were linked by moving people and print
    • Pamphlets never travelled

  6. Montesquieu sketched splitting power. What was the point?

    • So kings rule faster
    • So no one person holds it all
    • So courts close down

  7. Elites praising liberty also feared a second Haiti. What limit does that fear explain?

    • Revolutions that freed everyone at once
    • Revolutions that kept slavery and shared no land
    • Revolutions with no constitutions

  8. Why did Haiti take the principles furthest, and what followed?

    • It kept slavery and was rewarded
    • It ignored liberty entirely
    • It ended slavery, then faced isolation and punishment
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  1. Locke · Locke tied lawful rule to consent; Montesquieu to split powers.
  2. It should rest on reason and consent of the governed · Reason and consent replaced birth and divine right.
  3. True · All three spoke of liberty within twenty five years.
  4. America kept slavery, France swung, Haiti freed the enslaved · Same words, three different answers about equality.
  5. Atlantic Revolutions were linked by moving people and print · Shared news explains why the same words appear everywhere.
  6. So no one person holds it all · Divided power checks any single ruler.
  7. Revolutions that kept slavery and shared no land · Fear steered revolutions away from ending slavery.
  8. It ended slavery, then faced isolation and punishment · Applying liberty to the enslaved frightened slaveholding powers.
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