Atlantic Revolutions And Their Echoes
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| 6063370988 | North American Revolution | 1750-1914 : Successful Rebellion conducted by the colonists of parts of North America (Not Canada) against British rile (1775-1787); a conservative revolution whose success assured property rights but established republican government in place of monarchy. | 0 | |
| 6063370989 | French Revolution | 1750-1914 : Massive dislocation of French society (1798-1815) that overthrew the monarchy, destroyed most of the French aristocracy, and launched radical reforms of society. This revolution was much more violent, far-reaching and radical character than its American counterpart. | 1 | |
| 6063370990 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | 1750-1914 : A 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. It forthrightly declared that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights". | 2 | |
| 6063370991 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1750-1914 : French head of state from 1799 until his abdication in 1814 (and again briefly in 1815) he 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. | 3 | |
| 6063370992 | Haitian Revolution | 1750-1914 : The only fully successful slave rebellion in World History; the uprising in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Dominque (later renamed Haiti) was sparked by the French Revolution and led to establishment of an independent state after a long and bloody war (1791-1804). | 4 | |
| 6063370993 | Spanish American Revolutions | 1750-1914 : 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. Took place in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of the mainland. | 5 | |
| 6063370994 | Abolitionist Movement | 1750-1914 : An international movement that between approximately 1780 and 1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world. | 6 | |
| 6063370995 | Nationalism | 1750-1914 : The focusing of citizens loyalty on the notion that they are part of a "nation" with a unique culture, territory, ad destiny; first became a prominent element of political culture in the nineteenth century. Nationalists hoped to do away with disunity and foreign rule; and feminists tried to end, or at least migrate, male dominance. Proved to be an infinitely flexible and enormously powerful idea in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world and beyond | 7 | |
| 6063370996 | Vindication of the Rights of Women | 1750-1914 : Feminists tried to end, or at least migrate, male dominance. Proved to be an infinitely flexible and enormously powerful idea in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world and beyond | 8 | |
| 6063370997 | Maternal Feminism | 1750-1914 : A movement that claimed that women have value in society not because of an abstract notion of equality - they have a right to engage in civil and political life because of their duty to watch over the future of their children. | 9 | |
| 6063370998 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 1750-1914 : She was the leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States (1815-1902). She published a women's bible eliminating the parts she found offensive. | 10 | |
| 6063370999 | Mercantilism | Policy of using colonies for raw materials while manufacturing goods at home. Triangle Trade is a great example of this. | 11 | |
| 6063371000 | Triangle Trade | Movement of manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, Slaves from Africa to the Americas, and Raw materials from the Americas back to Europe. | 12 |
