Unit 2: Atlantic Revolutions Flashcards
1. Explain the ideas of the social contract and its influence on the Atlantic Revolutions
2. Explain the importance of natural rights to the Atlantic Revolutions and the movements that they inspired (feminism, abolitionism, etc.)
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| 218291124 | popular sovereignity | authority derived from the people rather than from God or tradition | |
| 218291125 | John Locke (1632-1704) | English philosophe (1632-1704) whose book Two Treatises on Government (1689) argued in favor of the social contract theory of government based on the protection of natural rights. Inspired the revolutionaries of the Atlantic revolutions and gave them justification for creating new governments | |
| 218291126 | social contract | John Locke's idea, an agreement between a society and a government. Society agrees to follow the rules or be punished, thus giving the government the authority to make and enforce laws. The government agrees to protect our natural rights | |
| 218291127 | liberty | an idea the Enlightenment that sparked revolutions, the idea that people can do what they want | |
| 218291128 | American Revolution (1775-1787) | began when British took away liberties Americans had come to expect in their evolved society | |
| 218291129 | French Revolution (1789-1815) | a period of extreme change in French society, experimentation with Enlightment ideas | |
| 218291130 | Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) | only succesful slave revolt in history, inflamed by French Revolution (French colony), gained independence from France | |
| 218291131 | Spanish American Revolutions (1810-1825) | revolutions in South America shaped by previous revolutions in which states gained independence from Spain and Portugul | |
| 218291132 | democracy | an idea of the Enlightenment that sparked revolutions, government system in whcih the people hold power and authority | |
| 218291133 | Third Estate | legal and social class in France before the French revolution consisting of everyone who wasn't noble or a memeber of the clergy; they were the majority of the nation (98%) and paid most of the taxes, but had virtually no rights; representatives wrote Declaration of the Rights of Man | |
| 218291134 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | this document was written by the Marquis de Lafayette (third estate) at the start of the French Revolution; it laid out the principals for which the revolutionaries were fighting and became the foundation for the new French constitution; said that 'men are born and remain free and equal in rights' | |
| 218291136 | Reign of Terror (1793-1794) | in the French Revolution, when thousands were killed on the guillotine | |
| 218291138 | Napoleon Bonaparte | military dictator of France (1799-1815), spread ideas of revolution through conquest but repressed democracy and liberty | |
| 218291139 | Toussaint Louverture | former slave who led the slave revolt in Haiti that resulted in Haitian independence | |
| 218291140 | creole | people born in the Americas whose parents had come from Spain or France, in the Latin American colonies, they were the elites and ultimately the leaders of the Latin American revolutions | |
| 218448426 | nativism | the idea that all free people born in the Americas were Americanos, used to convince Latin Americans to fight for independence | |
| 245176052 | abolition/abolitionists | the movement to end slavery, succesful as a result of slavery being bad in secular, religious, economic, and political ways | |
| 245176053 | nationalism/nationalists | the idea that every nation has its own distinct culture and deserves independence - stimulated pride in citizens bound by 'blood, culture, or common experience causes: eroding older identities, political leaders used to unite people | |
| 245176054 | civic nationalism | defines membership in the nation by living in the territory of the nation; but others could become members of a culture | |
| 245176055 | racial nationalism | Type of nationalism that developed in Germany (among other places), which defined membership in the nation by excluding some who were perceived not to have the same ancestry. | |
| 245176056 | feminism | the movement for women's rights and equality to men, made women have access to schools, jobs, and voting booths | |
| 245176057 | nation | a kind of human community believed to have a distinct culture and territory and requiring sovereignty | |
| 245176058 | Olympe de Gouges | French feminist who wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman in 1791 and encouraged women to seek the rights promoted by the Enlightenment and French Revolution | |
| 247097213 | Atlantic Revolutions | 1775-1825, many areas of the Atlantic world (North America, South America, Haiti and parts of Europe) had political revolutions - in the Americas, new states were created as colonists fought for independence from European colonial powers, and in Europe, the French Revolution initiated a decade of change in which France uses Enlightenment ideas. | |
| 247097214 | State | a government that exercises sovereignty over a population in a defined territory | |
| 247097215 | Sovereignty | the authority to mae and enforce lasw with complete independence from other states or organizations | |
| 247097216 | Empire | a kind of state in which one ethnic group controls an ethnically diverse population, usually in a larger territory | |
| 247097217 | City-state | a kind of state with any government, usually with a small and one-ethnic population consisting of a city and the surrounding territory | |
| 247097218 | Nation-state | a kind of state with any government, a population of a nation in any size territory | |
| 247097219 | life | the right to live | |
| 247097220 | property | the right to own things without them being taken, the right to own what you produce | |
| 247097221 | natural rights | rights that cannot be taken away, we have them because we are human: life, liberty, property | |
| 247097222 | republic | a government system that France became as a result of the Revolution | |
| 247097223 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leading feminist who paraphrased Declaration of Independence and published Women's Bible | |
| 247097224 | English Civil War | a conflict between supporters of King Charles I and Parliament over who had the authority to rule England | |
| 247097225 | Glorious Revolution | when King James 1 peacefully left England, allowing William and Mary to take the throne after signing the English Bill of Rights | |
| 247097226 | Stuart dynasty | the English dynasty that tried to behave like absolute monarchs in the 17th century. one king got his head cut off, and the last was driven out of England in 1688 when his son was born and baptized Catholic. | |
| 247097227 | English Bill of Rights | document William and Mary sign before taking throne creating a constitutional monarchy in which Parliament and monarchy share authority and giving citizens certain rights | |
| 247097228 | William and Mary | married monarchs that signed the English Bill of Rights, part of Stuart Dynasty | |
| 247097229 | Absolutism | monarch has absolute power, follows Descending Model of Authority | |
| 247097230 | Parliament | legislative branch of English government the English representative law-making institution that opposed royal authority in the 17th century English civil wars | |
| 247097231 | Constitutional monarchy | a kind of government in which Parliament and monarch share authority and the monarch has rules | |
| 247100032 | cash crop | a crop grown to be sold | |
| 247100033 | staple crop | a crop grown to be eaten | |
| 247100034 | sugar | an important cash crop, grown in Haiti before the Hatian Revolution | |
| 247100035 | Seven Years' War | war between Britain and France over land in North America | |
| 247391482 | Patriotism | love for one's country | |
| 247467255 | dictatorial impunity | dictators can't be punished, a revolution is the only way to change the government | |
| 275096577 | Simon Bolivar | the George Washington of Latin America, he led many of the Spanish colonies to rebel against Spain, but he failed to unite them in a United States of South America | |
| 275096578 | Declaration of Independence | this document was written mostly by Thomas Jefferson, and it argued that the North American colonists were justified in rebelling against England because the English kind had take away their rights | |
| 275096579 | constitution | it defines the limits of a governments authority | |
| 275096580 | legislative | the branch of government that makes laws | |
| 275096581 | executive | the branch of government that puts laws into effect, carries them out | |
| 275096582 | judicial | the branch of government that judges where the laws have been broken |
