Chapter 17 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes Flashcards

350244007	North American Revolution	1775-1787; successful rebellion by the North American colonists against British taxations. This replaced the monarchy in North American with a republican government.	1
350244008	French Revolution	1789-1815; going towards bankruptcy after the American Revolution, French king Louis XVI called in the Estates General consisting of representatives of the three "estates" or legal orders(clergy, nobility, and the commoners) who soon convened in 1789 and made up the National Assembly, claiming sole authority to make laws in France. Later King Louis was executed, the Terror of 1793-1794 came into play, leading the start of a new society.	2
350244009	Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	created by the National Assembly; declared that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights." These actions were illegal in the ancien regime (the old regime) therefore launching the French Revolution.	3
350244010	Napoleon Bonaparte	seized power in 1799; preserved many elements of the French Revolution (civil equality, secular law code, etc.) He spread ideas to most of Europe.	4
350244011	Haitian Revolution	1791-1804; slave revolt that was successful: with social classes based on race, all races began to battle with one another; slave revolt led by Toussaint Louverture a former slave; everything was settled by the redistribution of land to slaves and freed people.	5
350244012	Spanish American Revolution	1810-1825; rebellions by Spanish and Portuguese; creoles (natives born in Spanish colonies were offended by the Spanish monarchy's attempt to subject heavier taxes and tariffs.	6
350244013	Abolitionist Movement	anti-slavery movement; Quakers and Protestant evangelicals found slavery "repugnant to our religion" and a "crime in the sight of God."	7
350244014	Nationalism	everyone belonged to a nation; people became "citizens"; presented as a reawakening of older linguistic or cultural identities and drew upon songs, dances, historical experiences etc. of earlier cultures.	8
350244015	Vindication of the Rights of Woman	written by Mary Wollstonecraft; one of the earliest expressions of a feminist consciousness	9
350244016	Maternal Feminism	requires that woman watch over the futures of their children and gives women the right to intervene not only in all acts of civil life, but also in all acts of political life.	10
350244017	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	paraphrased the Declaration of Independence starting off as: "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal." This took place at a women's rights conference in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.	11