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| 6257995198 | 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; the movement was especially prominent in Britain and the United States. | 0 | |
| 6257995199 | Creoles | Native-born elites in the Spanish colonies. | 1 | |
| 6257995200 | 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. | 2 | |
| 6257995201 | Declaration of the Rights of Woman | Short work written by the French feminist Olympe de Gouges in 1791 that was modeled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and that made the argument that the equality proclaimed by the French revolutionaries must also include women. | 3 | |
| 6257995202 | 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 | |
| 6257995203 | Freetown | West African settlement in what is now Sierra Leone at which British naval commanders freed Africans they rescued from illegal slave ships. | 5 | |
| 6257995204 | 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 lost again, though only in part, under Napoleon's imperial rule and after the restoration of the monarchy. | 6 | |
| 6257995205 | 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 | |
| 6257995206 | Haiti | Name that revolutionaries gave to the former French colony of Saint Domingue; the term means "mountainous" or "rugged" in the Taino language. | 8 | |
| 6257995207 | Haitian Revolution | The only fully successful slave rebellion in world history; the uprising in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue (later renamed Haiti) was sparked by the French Revolution and led to the establishment of an independent state after a long and bloody war (1791-1804). | 9 | |
| 6257995208 | Hidalgo-Morelos rebellion | Socially radical peasant insurrection that began in Mexico in 1810 and that was led by the priests Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos. | 10 | |
| 6257995209 | Latin American revolutions | Series of risings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1826) 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. | 11 | |
| 6257995210 | Louverture, Toussaint | First leader of the Haitian Revolution, a former slave (1743-1803) who wrote the first constitution of Haiti and served as the first governor of the newly independent state. | 12 | |
| 6257995211 | 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; its exponents argued that women have the right to intervene in civil and political life because of their duty to watch over the future of their children. | 13 | |
| 6257995212 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French head of state from 1799 until his abdication in 1814 (and again briefly in 1815); Napoleon preserved much of the French Revolution under an autocratic system and was responsible for the spread of revolutionary ideals through his conquest of much of Europe. | 14 | |
| 6257995213 | 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. | 15 | |
| 6257995214 | 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 a prominent element of political culture in the nineteenth century. | 16 | |
| 6257995215 | 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. | 17 | |
| 6257995216 | Petit blancs | The "little" (or poor) white population of Saint Domingue, which played a significant role in the Haitian Revolution. | 18 | |
| 6257995217 | Seneca Falls Conference | The first organized women's rights conference, which took place at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. | 19 | |
| 6257995218 | Stanton, Elizabeth Cady | Leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States (1815-1902). | 20 | |
| 6257995219 | Terror, the | Term used to describe the revolutionary violence in France in 1793-1794, when radicals under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre executed tens of thousands of people deemed enemies of the revolution. | 21 | |
| 6257995220 | Third Estate | In prerevolutionary France, the term used for the 98 percent of the population that was neither clerical nor noble, and for their representatives at the Estates General; in 1789, the Third Estate declared itself a National Assembly and launched the French Revolution. | 22 | |
| 6257995221 | Tupac Amaru | The last Inca emperor; in the 1780s, a Native American rebellion against Spanish control of Peru took place in his name. | 23 | |
| 6258001085 | Socialism | An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange. | 24 | |
| 6258001086 | Communism | A political and economic system where factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state. | 25 | |
| 6258002552 | Feudalism | A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land | 26 | |
| 6258002553 | Federalism | A system of government in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated within a central government. | 27 |
