North America & The Caribbean
A series of risings in Spanish colonies of South and Central America that established the independence of new states from Spanish rule while retaining privileges of the elites despite efforts at more radical social rebellion by the lower classes.
What are the Latin American Revolutions?
An international movement that condemned slavery as morally repugnant and contributed much to ending slavery in the Western world during the nineteenth century.
What is abolitionism?
Followers of an American political movement (progressivism) in the period around 1900 that advocated reform measures such as wages-and-hours legislation to correct the ills of industrialization.
What are Progressives?
The socially radical peasant rebellion in Mexico (1810) led by the priests Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos.
What is the Hidalgo-Morelos Rebellion?
The massive upheaval of French society (1789-1815) that overthrew the monarchy, ended the legal privileges of the nobility, and for a time outlawed the Catholic Church, radical and violent but eventually became more conservative under Napoleon.
What is the French Revolution?
The focusing of citizens' loyalty on the notion that they are part of a "nation" that merits an independent political life, with a unique culture, territory, and common experience; first became a prominent element of political culture in nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas.
What is Nationalism?
The British social stratum developed in the nineteenth century, composed of small businessmen, doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, and other professionals required in an industrial society; politically liberal, they favored constitutional government, private property, free trade, and social reform within limits; had ideas of thrift, hard work, rigid morality, "respectability," and cleanliness.
What is middle class society?
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 after a long and bloody war.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
The long and bloody war (1911-1920) in which Mexican reformers from the middle class joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Díaz and create a new, much more democratic political order.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
The French head of state and general (r. 1799-1815), preserved much of the French Revolution under a military dictatorship and was responsible for the spread of revolutionary ideals through his conquest of much of Europe.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The movement that claimed that women have value in society not because of equality but because women have a distinctive and vital role as mothers.
What is maternal feminism?
The majority of Britain's nineteenth-century population, which included manual workers in the mines, ports, factories, construction sites, workshops, and farms of Britain's industrializing and urbanizing society; this class suffered the most and at least initially gained the least from the transformations of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Laboring Classes?
A slave rebellion in the British West Indies in which around 60,000 slaves attacked several hundred plantations; inspired by the Haitian Revolution, the discontent of the enslaved population and the brutality of the British response helped sway the British public to support the abolition of slavery.
What is the Great Jamaica Revolt?
A large-scale increase in Latin American exports (mostly raw materials and foodstuffs) to industrializing countries.
What is the Latin American Export Boom?
The charter of political liberties, drawn up by the French National Assembly in 1789, proclaimed the equal rights of all male citizens; the declaration gave expression to the essential outlook of the French Revolution and became the preamble to the French constitution completed in 1791.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
A suffragette who organized the first convention on women's rights, and co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A social stratum that developed in Britain in the nineteenth century and that consisted of people employed in the service sector as clerks, salespeople, secretaries, police officers, and the like; by 1900, this group comprised about 20 percent of Britain's population.
What is the lower middle class?
A fairly minor political movement in the US; at its height in 1912, it won 6% of the vote for its presidential candidate.
What is Socialism in the US?
A term used to describe Latin America's economic growth in the nineteenth century, which was largely financed by foreign capital and dependent on European and North American prosperity and decisions; also viewed as a new form of colonialism.
What is the Dependent Development Theory?
The leader of the French Revolution during the Terror; his Committee of Public Safety executed tens of thousands of enemies of the revolution until he was arrested and guillotined.
Who is Robespierre?
Written in 1792 by Mary Wollstonecraft, this book was one of the earliest expressions of feminist consciousness.
What is Vindication of the Rights of Women?