Week 5

Chapter 16

- 2010 Haitian earthquake made the living standards even worse than it already was

-  Haitians drew inspiration from North American and French Revolutions

- Atlantic Slave trade because there was too much work and too little workers

- it maximized the productivity of the Americas as well as producing colonies

- New ideas of liberty, equality, and free trade

-  had a huge global impact; seen in abolitionism, right to vote, constitutions, more equality for women, nationalism, and more equality

- the American Revolution was a conservative political movement

- the difference between the Britain and North American colonies was that the NA society was more egalitarian or equal than the European society

- Britain wanted to control the colonies more because they needed more money

- They needed money for the war with France

- New taxes were implemented on the colonists

- Colonists were not part of the British Parliament

- The British people told the people living in the colonies that they were not true Englishmen

- Americans thought they were creating something new

- US was considered the model race as they are today

- in the French Revolution, many of the French fought for the American revolutionaries

- French government was faced with bankruptcy

- French attempted to modernize the tax system but the higher class (rich people) did not like that because they would have to pay more

- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, thus launching the French Revolution

- it was caused because rich people did not want to get taxed, the middle class did not like the aristocratic privileges, and the poor suffered from unemployment because there was not enough jobs

- French Revolution was violent

- ended slavery for a short period of time

- wanted to create a new society

- the French Revolution spread (influenced others)

-Haitian Revolution began was really violent

- slave revolt in 1791

- war between many factions

- wanted equality for all races

- was the only successful slave revolt

-gave others hope, inspired other slave rebellions

- Spanish American Revolution was from 1810 to 1825

- inspired by earlier revolutionary movements

- the society had stricter class divisions

- the whites were really outnumbered

- gaining independence took longer than in North America

- the women did not really gain anything

- Echoes of Revolution; expressed ideas of republicanism, greater social equality, and liberation from the foreign rule

- had more voting rights

- slavery around the world ended in around 1780 to 1890

- there were 3 major slave rebellions

- Nationalism was really important in the 19th century

- Feminist Beginnings is important because women gained more rights

- found more educational and work opportunities

- the movement included every class not just the elite

- by the 1900s women started getting admitted into universities

- made it possible for the women to initiate the divorce not just the man

- many argued that if the women was not at home it would cause reproductive damage

- feminism spread around Europe and the United States