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3754118508Tupac AmaruLast Inca emperor, who led a rebellion against Spanish colonial Peru in the 1780s0
3754120049third estateThe 98% of the French population that was neither clerical nor noble, whose leaders launched the French Revolution1
3754121567Terrorthe radical execution of tens of thousands of people deemed enemies of the French Revolution2
3754126458Elizabeth Cady StantonLeading figure of early women's rights in the US3
3754128308Seneca Falls ConferenceFirst organized women's rights conference4
3754129702petit blancsthe poor white population of Saint Dominique, which played a significant role in the Haitian Revolution5
3754135239North American RevolutionA successful rebellion against British rule by colonists who replaced monarchical control with a republic and assured property rights -to white male landowners at first6
3754143995nationalismThe focusing of citizens' loyalty toward their nation7
3754145359nationA clearly defined territory whose people have a sense of common identity and destiny, due to ethnicity, culture, language, or common experience8
3754146625Napolean BonaparteFrench head of state who preserved the French revolution with an autocratic system, and spread revolutionary ideas through his conquests in Europe9
3754148839maternal feminismWomen are valuable in society because they are mothers, therefore they deserve a place in public life10
3754150320Toussaint, LouvertureFirst leader of the Haitian revolution, who wrote the constitution and served as the first governor11
3754152306DurA random flashcard with no meaning12
3754154671Latin American revolutionsSeries of uprisings in the Spanish colonies in North America, which established new states independent from Spanish rule13
3754157322Hidalgo-Morelos RebellionA socially radical peasant insurrection in 1810, led by priests Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Moreles14
3754159292Haitian RevolutionThe uprising in the French colony of Saint Dominigue / Haiti15
3754159293HaitiFrench colony Saint Dominique renamed by revolutionaries to Haiti, meaning rugged or mountainous in Taino language16
3754161858gens de couleur libresFreed slaves and people of mixed race in Saint Dominigue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution17
3754167933French RevolutionA dislocation of French society that overthrew monarchy, destroyed aristocracy, and launched reforms that were later lost under Napoleon18
3754170483FreetownWest Africa settlement in what is now Sierra Leone where British commanders rescued and freed Africans from illegal slave ships19
3754173123Estates GeneralThe representative assembly that was called into session to address the problems that French revolutionaries were concerned about; its 3 orders consisted of the clergy, nobility, and commoners20
3754179726Declaration of the Rights of WomanA short work that argued that the equalities proclaimed by the French revolutionaries must also include women21
3754182725Declaration of the Rights of Man and CitizenDocument drawn up by the French National Assembly that drew out all the equal rights of men22
3754184451creolesNative born elites in Spanish colonies23
3754185760abolitionist movementAn international movement beginning in the1780s that condemned slavery24

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