Chapter 16: Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas

[blank_start]creole[blank_end] is a white person born in Spanish america or to Spanish parents

[blank_start]mestizos[blank_end] are a group of people who led the first series of revolts im the late 1700s.

A [blank_start]social contract[blank_end] is not a divine appointment where a monarchy is created in order to serve the people

A [blank_start]state of nature[blank_end] is when people are not restricted by any state of any kind, no structure or rules

Which groups participated in major revolutions to replace an existing government?

What is the democracy that emerged from the revolutions:

[blank_start]Divine right of kings[blank_end] is a political doctrine influential in the 16th and 17th centuries which held that the monarch derived his authority from god and was not accountable to earthly authority

Was the success of the Glorious Revolution associated with John Locke?

[blank_start]Philosophers[blank_end] were a group of 18th century writers and philosphers, mostly French that emphasized the supremacy of human reason as the key to progress.