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| 8803896640 | North American Revolution | Successful rebellion conducted by the colonists of North America (not Canada) against British rule (1775-1783); established republican government in place of monarchy. | 0 | |
| 8803920515 | French Revolution | Massive dislocation of French society (1789-1799) that overthrew the monarchy, destroyed most of the French aristocracy, and launched radical reforms of society that were lost again, though only in part, under Napoleon's imperial rule and after the restoration of the monarchy. | 1 | |
| 8803962445 | Haitian Revolution | The only fully successful slave rebellion in world history;the uprising in the French Caribbean colony was sparked by the French Revolution and led to the establishment of an independent state. | 2 | |
| 8829582544 | Abolitionist movement | An international movement that between approximately 1780 and 1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world. | 3 | |
| 8829601970 | 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 in the nineteenth century. | 4 | |
| 8829624042 | Freetown | West African settlement in what is now Sierra Leone at which British naval commanders freed Africans they rescued from illegal slave ships. | 5 | |
| 8829641423 | Latin American revolutions | Series of uprisings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1825) that established the independence of new states from 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. | 6 | |
| 8829687788 | Louverture, Toussaint | First leader of the Haitian Revolution, former slave who wrote the first constitution of Haiti. Served as the first governor of the newly independent state. | 7 | |
| 8829687789 | Seneca Falls Conference | The first organized women's rights conference, which took place at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. | 8 |
