- Atlantic Revolutions in North America, France Haiti, and Latin America
- Distinctive in that they were closely connected to one another
- American, Thomas Jefferson, was the U.S. ambassador to France on the eve of the French Revolution
- Simon Bolivar, Spanish American, twice visited Haiti
- New ideas of liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism, and human rationality where in the air
- Popular sovereignty - authority to govern derived from the people rather than from God or from established tradition
The North American Revolution, 1775-1787
- A struggle for independence from British rule
- Less poverty, more economic opportunity, fewer soul differences, and easier relationships among the classes than in Europe
- Ideas of enlightenment - Popular sovereignty, natural rights, the content of the governed
- Went to war, by 1781 they had prevailed with aid from the French
- Revolution accelerated the established democratic tendencies of the colonial societies
The French Revolution, 1789-1815
- Awakened by the American revolution
- Declaration of the Right of Man and Citizen launched the French Revolution
- Revolution driven by sharp conflicts within French society
- "men are born and remain free and equal in rights"
- Women unlike in the Americas were involved and raised question for female political equality
Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804
- French Revolution lit several fuses and see win motion a spiral of violence
- A war between social classes
- The only completely successful slave revolt in world history
- First non-European state to emerge from Western colonialism
Spanish American Revolution, 1810-1825
- Shaped by North America, French, and Haiti Revolutions as well as by their own distinctive societies
- Divided by class, race, and region
- Napoleon invaded Spain and Portugal
- Latin Americans were forced to take action .. independence for the various states of Latin America
The Abolition of Slavery 1780-1790
- Enlightenment thinkers thought critical of slavery as violation of natural rights
- Slavery was not essential for economic progress
- Haitian Revolution led to rebellions, demonstrated that slaves weren't content
- Abolition movement-pamphlets, numerous petitions, lawsuits, boycotts of slave sugar
- Britain was the first to free slaves.. Patrolled slave water for illegal slave ships
Nations and Nationalism
- Novel form of political loyalty
- Single language used around the nation to make the 'citizens' feel like 'citizens'
- An aid to individual aspirations toward wider involvement in political life
- Usually had to do with conforming people to: a religion, culture, or way of living
Feminist Beginnings
- Europe and North America
- French Rev. raised the possibility for re-creating human society on foundations of the sexes
- National American Woman Suffrage Association claimed about 2 million members
- In China, modernists believed that education and a higher status for women strengthened the nation
No comments:
Post a Comment