American Revolution
What was a reason for the American Revolution?
-Enlightenment Ideas
-Seven Years War
-Losing general autonomy to an imperial power
What was a reason for the French Revolution?
-Enlightenment Ideas
-Estate System
-King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
-Food and Financial Crisis
With the exception of Mexico and Haiti, what social class was the driving force behind the revolutions in Latin America?
Creoles
The Greeks gained their independence from this empire.
The Ottoman Empire
This was a movement to end the slave trade and slavery.
Abolitionist Movement
This was a meeting of American state leaders that officially declared independence.
Continental Congress
What was a goal of the French Revolutionaries?
Replace the ancien regime (old order) with a new political, social, and cultural structure (new order)
This country had the only bloodless revolution in Latin America AND it was the only country to not win its independence from Spain.
Brazil
The movement started by Theodore Herzl for a Jewish Homeland.
Zionism
The main goal of the women's movement in the Western World in the 19th century was what?
Equality before the law
This battle ended the American War for Independence.
Battle of Yorktown
Radical leader of the Jacobins who led the Committee of Public Safety and presided over the Reign of Terror.
Maximilien Robespierre
The creoles replaced the peninsulares as rulers in Latin America. However, over time, these people eventually took power from the creoles in many Latin American countries.
caudillos (strong men)
He was the prime minister of Piedmont and Sardinia who united with Italian nationalist leaders to help unite Italy.
Count Camillo Cavour
Wrote the book, A Vindication for the Rights of Woman.
Mary Wollstonecraft
What type of government was created by the American Constitution of 1789?
Constitutional Federal Republic
This French document would be the equivalent of the American Declaration of Indpendence.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
In Mexico, who led the revolution against the Spanish?
Father Miguel Hidalgo
This person used the policies of realpolitik and “blood and iron” to engineer the unification of Germany under Prussian king King Wilhelm I.
Otto Von Bismarck
This person was a prominent English philanthropist and member of Parliament that fought for the end of the slave trade and slavery.
William Wilberforce
What group could fully participate in the American experiment after independence was achieved?
Only white male property owners
The defeat of France led to a Conservative European order led by the Congress of Vienna. What person could be consdered the architect of this conservitve order?
Clemens von Metternich
This individual led the Haitian fight for independence and is considered the "black George Washington".
Toussaint Louverture
Guiseppe Mazzini (the brain - Young Italy) and this person (the muscle - "red shirts") helped unite Italy under King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont and Sardinia.
Guiseppe Garibaldi
This person organized the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 to help push forward a united women's rights movement.
Elizabeth Stanton