Geography
What sea is Haiti located?
What is the Caribbean Sea.
What was Haiti cash crop? (Two acceptable answers)
What is sugar (sugar cane) and coffee.
What three key words from the French Revolution were an inspiration for the Haitian Revolution?
What is liberty, equality, and fraternity.
True or false: Former slaves were granted freedom and citizenship at the end of the revolution?
What is True
Who were the petit blancs?
The second tier whites, who were artisans, merchant, not as wealthy as the white plantation owners.
What is the capital of Haiti?
What is Port-au-Prince?
Who was Haiti's mother country?
Who is France.
What was the ratio of slaves to whites?
What is 17:1
Define Emancipation
What is "to set free"
To whom did the National Assembly grant citizenship?
Who is the white people AND free men of color.
What was Haiti called before the Revolution?
What is St. Domingue
What was Haiti's role in the triangular trade?
Slaves brought from Africa to Haiti to work on the sugar and coffee plantation, while these products were sold in Europe.
What two other countries were willing to help the slaves during their revolt, ultimately causing French to "give up"?
What is Spain and England.
What were the results of the two phases of the revolution?
What is 1) End of slavery and 2) Haitian independence from France.
What was the ultimate fate of Toussaint Louverture?
What is "he was arrested and died in a French prison."
What country borders Haiti? (The other country of Hispaniola?)
What is the Dominican Republic?
What is a name of a massive farm where sugar, tobacco, or cotton are grown?
What is a plantation?
With whom did Haiti's petit blancs identify with in regards to France's 3 Estates?
What is the 3rd Esatate
After the slaves gained freedom and the fight for Haitian independence started, what natural occuring situation helped to defeat the French.
What is disease.
Name one reason people should learn about the Haitian revolution?
Answers may include: 2nd successful revolution in the Americas, OR Helped ruin Napoeon's plans of American dominance, OR a successful slave revolt.
What was the sale of the massive piece of land Napoleon sold to America called?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Two parts: What language is spoken in Haiti and what language is spoken in the Dominican Republic?
What is French is Haiti and Spanish in the Dominican Republic.
What was the name of the general who lead the Haitian Revolution?
Who is Toussaint Louverture
What modern country was the first to be governed by African descendants?
What is Haiti
While on vacation in the Caribbean, why are drinks made with rum, such as a pina colada or mojito so popular? (Hint: what is rum made from?)
What is sugar cane.