Independence – United States
This 1773 event protested British taxation and escalated tensions.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This enslaved population led the only successful slave revolution in history.
What is the Haitian population of enslaved Africans?
Both the American and Haitian Revolutions were influenced by this intellectual movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
This issue was the central cause of sectional tension in the US.
What is slavery?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This document formally justified the American colonies’ break from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This leader became the most prominent figure in the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This key difference involved who led the revolutions—colonial elites in the US versus this group in Haiti.
Who are the enslaved people (or formerly enslaved population)?
This compromise attempted to maintain balance between free and slave states in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This proclamation declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced Jefferson’s ideas about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This European revolution inspired ideas of equality that influenced Haiti.
What is the French Revolution?
Both revolutions challenged control by this European power.
What is European imperial authority?
This act required citizens to return escaped enslaved people to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
These amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This battle in 1781 effectively ended major fighting in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This leader declared Haiti’s independence in 1804.
Who is Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
This revolution led to the abolition of slavery, unlike the American Revolution.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This period aimed to rebuild the South and integrate formerly enslaved people into society.
What is Reconstruction?
This treaty formally recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This economic system in Saint-Domingue relied on enslaved labor for sugar production.
What is the plantation system?
This concept helps explain why outcomes differed due to social structure and class tensions.
What is social hierarchy (or class structure)?
This concept describes the idea that territories should decide the issue of slavery themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
This group used violence to resist Reconstruction policies and African American rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?