The Glorious Revolution
A type of government where the power of the king is restricted by Parliament or another governing body.
What is a limited/constitutional monarchy?
This war between Britain and France led indirectly to the American Revolution.
What is the Seven Years' War / the French and Indian War?
The previous name of the island that is today called Haiti.
The "brains" of the Latin American revolutions. A creole who started his campaign by freeing Venezuela, with a goal of uniting all of South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
People who were against technology for replacing human labor.
What are Luddites?
King known for his partying, entertainment, and patronage of the arts - called the Merry Monarch.
Who is Charles II?
Great Britain lowered the price on tea to try to get American colonists to buy it, but they refused, and protested by ruining millions of dollars worth of British tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The unofficial leader of the Haitian Revolution, who helped stage numerous slave rebellions, and died in French captivity in 1804.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
They kept Spain and Portugal busy in Europe, which allowed their colonies the chance to fight for independence.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
An invention created to separate cotton from its seeds.
What is a cotton gin?
The monarchs who took over England from James II, who was forced to flee to France.
Who are Mary II and William of Orange?
The first ten amendments of the United States Constitution (ratified 1789) to provide assurances to the American people. (The British constitution also has one!)
What is the Bill of Rights?
The terms used for white plantation owners and small business owners in Saint Domingue.
What are grand blancs and petit blancs?
The "muscle" of the Latin American Revolutions. A creole who started his campaign in Argentina, then moved northward.
Who is José de San Martín?
The technology that replaced water mills.
What are steam engines?
The problem the English Parliament had with Charles II, and his successor, James II.
What is Catholicism?
French nobleman and soldier who joined George Washington because he believed in the American cause; rallied French aid for the American colonies.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
Runaway slaves who founded their own settlements in the mountains of Saint-Domingue.
What are maroons?
The tactic used by Bolívar and San Martín to encourage Latin American countries to fight for their independence - led to a lack of unity between the countries, but extreme pride in each country.
What is nationalism?
When large populations of people move from the countryside to cities.
What is urbanization?
The two parties created in Parliament when they were divided on the issue of Catholicism & Charles II's succession.
What are Whigs and Tories?
Britain ignored and allowed the American colonies to do whatever they wanted, as long as they stayed loyal and made them money.
What is salutary neglect?
The general who took over the revolution after Louverture's death, and eventually declared himself Emperor of Haiti.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jacques I)
Military autocrats (dictators) who took over through coups d'état after the Latin American revolutions, and used nepotism to keep themselves in power.
What are caudillos?
A system by which producers give workers materials and goods are created by individual laborers in the home.
What is the domestic system?