Ch. 17 Flashcards
Strayer chapter 17, Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes. 1750-1914
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| 349485408 | 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. | 0 | |
| 349485409 | French Revolution | 1789-1815; overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799. | 1 | |
| 349485410 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | Declares the "men are born and remain free and equal in rights". 1789 | 2 | |
| 349485411 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Preserved much of the French Revolution under his autocratic system and was responsible for spreading ideas about revolutions when he conquered Europe. Head:1799 Abdication:1814 | 3 | |
| 349485412 | Haitian Revolution | 1791-1804 revolution for all people to be free regardless of race; slaves lead by Toussaint Louverture; only completely successful slave revolt in world history. | 4 | |
| 349485413 | Spanish American revolutions | 1810-1825; Creoles offended by Spanish monarchy's for greater taxes and tariffs for more power over colonies. Fear of social rebellion. Wanted independence from Spanish and Portuguese. | 5 | |
| 349485414 | abolitionist movement | Anti-slavery movement expressed first by Quakers and then Protestant evangelicals in Britain and US. | 6 | |
| 349485415 | nationalism | presented as a reawakening of older,cultural ideas; powerful idea in the 19th century Atlantic world and beyond. Political unification for Germany and Italy (1871). | 7 | |
| 349485416 | Vindication of the Rights of Women | One of the earliest expressions of a feminist consciousness written by Mary Wollstonecraft. | 8 | |
| 349485417 | maternal feminist | Feminist against stereotypical assumptions of women just being mothers to their children; wanting the right to intervene in the child's civil and political life. | 9 | |
| 349485418 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Paraphrased the Declaration of Independence at the first women's right conference in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848 saying, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and woman are created equally." | 10 |