AP World History Chapter 16 Flashcards

8803896640	North American Revolution	Successful rebellion conducted by the colonists of North America (not Canada) against British rule (1775-1783); established republican government in place of monarchy.	0
8803920515	French Revolution	Massive dislocation of French society (1789-1799) that overthrew the monarchy, destroyed most of the French aristocracy, and launched radical reforms of society that were lost again, though only in part, under Napoleon's imperial rule and after the restoration of the monarchy.	1
8803962445	Haitian Revolution	The only fully successful slave rebellion in world history;the uprising in the French Caribbean colony was sparked by the French Revolution and led to the establishment of an independent state.	2
8829582544	Abolitionist movement	An international movement that between approximately 1780 and 1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world.	3
8829601970	Nationalism	The focusing of citizens' loyalty on the notion that they are part of a "nation" with a unique culture, territory, and destiny; first became prominent in the nineteenth century.	4
8829624042	Freetown	West African settlement in what is now Sierra Leone at which British naval commanders freed Africans they rescued from illegal slave ships.	5
8829641423	Latin American revolutions	Series of uprisings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1825) 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.	6
8829687788	Louverture, Toussaint	First leader of the Haitian Revolution, former slave who wrote the first constitution of Haiti. Served as the first governor of the newly independent state.	7
8829687789	Seneca Falls Conference	The first organized women's rights conference, which took place at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.	8