Revolutions And National States In The Atlantic World Flashcards

4338416695	Popular Sovereignty	During the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, philosophies and other advocates of Enlightenment ideas began to question longstanding notions of sovereignty	0
4338416696	Individual Freedom	Enlightenment thinkers addressed issues of freedom and equality as well as sovereignty.	1
4338416697	Political and Legal Equality	They condemned the legal and social privileges enjoyed by aristocrats, who in the philosophies view made no More contribution to the larger society than a peasant, or crafts worker	2
4338416698	Global Influence of Enlightenment Values	Enlightenment thought constituted a serious serious challenge to long established notions of political and social order	3
4338416699	Tightened British Control of the Colonies	North American colonist became increasingly disenchanted with British imperial rule.	4
4338416700	The Declaration of Independence	Drew deep inspiration from Enlightenment political thought in justifying the colonies quest for independence.	5
4338416701	Building an Independent State	Leaders of the fledging republic organized a state that reflected Enlightenment principles.	6
4338416702	The Estate General	Serious fiscal problems pit France on the road to revolution.	7
4338416703	The National Assembly	After several weeks of fruitless debate, representatives of the third estate took the dramatic step of seceding from the Estate General and proclaiming themselves to be the NationalAssembly.	8
4338416704	Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity	Taking "liberty,equality, and fraternity" as its goals, the Assembly abolished the old social order along with the many fees and labor services that peasants owed to their landlords.	9
4338416705	The Convention	Efforts by the French nobility to mobilize foreign powers in support of the king and the restoration of the ancien régime gave the Ass	10
4338416706	The Directory	Many victims of this reign of terror were fellow radicals who fell out of favor with Robespierre and the Jacobins	11
4338416707	Napoleonic France	Napoleon brought political stability to a land torn by revolutions and war	12
4338416708	Napoleon's Empire	While working to stabilizeFrance, Napoleon also sought to extend his authority throughout Europe	13
4338416709	The Fall of Napoleon	A coalition of British, Austrian, Prussian, and Russian armies converged on France and forced Napoleon to abdicate his throne in April 1814	14
4338416710	Slave Revolt	The conflict expand dramatically when a charismatic Vodou priest named Boukman organized a slave revolt	15
4338416711	Toussaint Louverture	Was skilled organizer, and by 1793 he built a strong, disciplined army	16
4338416712	Saint-Domingue Society	Included about forty thousand white French settlers, thirty thousand gens de couleur, and some five hindered thousand black slaves, most of whom were born in Africa	17
4338416713	The Republic of Haiti	Became the second independent republic in the western hemp.	18
4338416714	Latin American Society	Though governed by peninsulas, the Iberian colonies had a Large, wealthy, and powerful class of Euro-American criollos or creoles, individuals born in the Americas of Spanish or Portuguese ancestry	19
4338416715	Mexican Independence	The struggle for independence began in the of Napoleon's invasion of Spain and Portugal, which weakened royal authority in the Iberian colonies.	20
4338416716	Simón Bolívar	Led the movement for independence	21
4338416717	Conservatism	The modern ideology of conservatism arose as political and social theorists responded to the challenges of the American and especially the french revolutions.	22
4338416718	Liberalism	In contrast to conservatives, liberals took change as normal and welcomed it as the agent of progress	23
4338416719	Movements to Ends the slave Trade	Freed slaves like Olaudah Equiano were among the earliest critics of slavery.	24