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| 5406928974 | Abolitionist movement | an international movement that between approx. 1780-1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world; the movement was especially prominent in Britain and the United States |  | 0 |
| 5406934590 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | document drawn up by the French National ASsembly in 1789 that proclaimed the equal rights of all men' the declaration ideologically launched the French Revolution |  | 1 |
| 5406934591 | Declaration of Rights of Women | short work written by the French feminist Olympe de Gouges in 1791 that was modeled on the Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizen and that made the argument that the equality proclaimed by the French revolutionaries must also include women |  | 2 |
| 5406937341 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States (1815-1902). she was instrumental in organizing the first women's rights conference, which took place in her hometown of Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 |  | 3 |
| 5406937342 | Estates General | french representative assembly called into session by Louis XVI to address pressing problems and out of which the French Revolution emerged; the three estates were the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners |  | 4 |
| 5406939527 | Freetown | west african settlement in what is now Sierra Leone at which British naval commanders freed Africans they rescued from illegal slave ships |  | 5 |
| 5406939528 | French Revolution | massive dislocation of French society (1789-1815) that overthrew the monarchy, destroyed most of the French aristocracy, and launched radical reforms of society that were mostly lost under Napoleon's imperial rule and after the restoration of the monarchy. The French REvolution proceeded in states and included the era known as the Terror |  | 6 |
| 5406942379 | gens de couleur libres | literally "free people of color," term used to describe freed slaves and people of mixed racial background in Saint Domingue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution |  | 7 |
| 5406944635 | Haitian Revolution | the only fully successful slave rebellion in world history; the uprising in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue (later renamed Haiti, which means 'mountain' or 'rugged' in the Native Taino language) was sparked by the French Revolution and led to the establishment of an independent state after a long and bloody war (1791-1804). Its first leader was Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave (1743-1803) who wrote the first constitution of Haiti and served as the first governor of the newly independent state. |  | 8 |
| 5406944636 | Kartini | a javanese woman from an elite background (1879-1904) who has come to be regarded as a pioneer of both feminist and nationalist thinking in Indonesia. |  | 9 |
| 5406945966 | Maternal feminism | movement that claimed that women have value in society not because of an abstract notion of equality but because women have a distinctive and vital role as mothers; it's exponents argue that women have the right to intervene in civil and political life because of their duty to watch over the future of their children |  | 10 |
| 5406948669 | Napoleon Bonaparte | french head of state form 1799 until his abdication in 1814 (and again briefly on 1815): Napoleon preserved much of the French Revolution under an autocratic system and was responsible for the spread of revolutionary ideals through his conquests of much of Europe. |  | 11 |
| 5406948670 | Nation | a clearly defined territory whose people have a sense of common identity and destiny, thanks to ties of blood, culture, language, or common experience. |  | 12 |
| 5406948671 | Nationalism | the focusing of citizens' loyalty on the notion that they are part of a 'nation' with a unique culture, territory, and destiny; first became prominent element of political culture in the 19th century |  | 13 |
| 5406950086 | North American Revolution | successful rebellion conducted by the colonists of parts of North America (not Canada) against British rule (1775-1787); a conservative revolution whose success assured property rights but established republican government in place of monarchy |  | 14 |
| 5406953039 | Petit blancs | the 'little' (or poor) white population of Saint Domingue, which played a significant role in the Haitian Revolution |  | 15 |
| 5406953040 | Seneca Falls Conference | the first organized women's rights conference, which took place in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 |  | 16 |
| 5406954976 | Spanish American revolutions | series of risings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1826) that established the independence of new states form Spanish rule but that for the most part retained the privileges of the elites despite efforts at more radical social rebellion by the lower classes. A more social rebellion, known as the Hidalgo-Morelos rebellion, began in Mexico in 1810 and was led by the priests Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Morelos |  | 17 |
| 5406954977 | The Terror | term used to describe the revolutionary violence in France 1793-1794, when radicals under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre executed tens of thousands of people deemed enemies of the revolution |  | 18 |
| 5406959616 | Third Estate | in pre-revolutionary France, term used for the 98% of the population that was neither clerical or noble, and for their representatives at the Estates General; in 1789, the Third Estate declared itself a national assembly and launched the French Revolution |  | 19 |
| 5406959617 | Tupac Amaru | the last Inca emperor; in the 1780s, a Native American rebellion against Spanish control of Peru took place in his name |  | 20 |
| 5406963420 | Vindication of the Rights of Women | written by Mary Wollstonecroft in 1792, this tract was one of the earliest expressions of feminist consciousness |  | 21 |
