The Enlightenment and Revolution
The condition of being free from oppressive restrictions on one's way of life, behavior, and/or political views.
What is liberty?
The name of a violent period of the French Revolution defined by mass executions, political repression, and use of fear.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Blending African, Taino, and Catholic beliefs, this religion served as a major driving force for the Haitian Revolution.
What is Vodou?
Who is Napoleon?
A worldview that centers European, or white, ways of knowing as central and superior to all others.
What is Eurocentrism?
The name of the social hierarchy in pre-revolutionary France that grouped the population into clergy, nobles, and commoners.
What is the Three Estates System?
This 1804 document proclaimed, "Eternal hatred of France!"
What is the Haitian Declaration of Independence?
The wife of King Louis XVI and Queen of France during the French Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
A social and political philosophy based on the rights of the individual, consent of the governed, and equality before the law.
What is liberalism?
On August 26, 1789, the National Assembly of France approved this historic document that proclaimed the equality and liberty of all men.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (or, DoRoMaC)?
The term for formerly enslaved Africans who escaped from slavery and formed independent communities in Haiti's forests.
What are maroons?
Born a slave, this Haitian general initially fought for France against the Spanish invasion of Saint-Domingue and later fought against France for Haitian independence, before being captured by Napoleon's forces.
Who is Touissant Loverture?
A social and political philosophy based on the promotion and preservation of traditional institutions, customs, and values.
What is conservatism?
On June 20, 1789, French commoners took this historic pledge refusing to disassemble until a new constitution for France was established.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
A decree issued by the French king in 1685 that established the legal framework for slavery in the France's colonies.
What is the Code Noir (or, the Black Code)?
This Haitian religious leader presided over a secret ceremony in 1791, which sparked a wave of slave revolts across Saint-Domingue.
Who is Dutty Boukman? (Will also accept Cecile Fatiman).
A successful revolution is these four things.
What is radical, transformational, foundational, and unified?
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
It was not until this year that France recognized Haiti's independence.
What is 1825?
A wealthy free person of color in Saint-Domingue, this man led a failed rebellion in 1790 after the colonial government failed to extend equal voting rights to free people of color.
Who is Vincent Oge?