Enlightenment
The French city where many Enlightenment thinkers lived and spread their ideas
What is Paris?
A prison fortress stormed by French peasants at the beginning of the revolution
What is the Bastille?
Year when the Haitian Revolution began
What is 1791?
The country where the Industrial Revolution began
What is England?
The ocean between Europe and North America
What is the Atlantic?
The private locations where Enlightenment thinkers would gather to share their revolutionary ideas
What are salons?
The French monarch killed in 1793
Who is Louis XVI?
Locations where enslaved people were forced to work in Saint Domingue before the revolution
What are plantations?
An natural resource which was extracted from mines and powered early factories and industry
What is coal?
The main crop grown in Saint Domingue and exported to Europe
What is sugar?
An agreement described by Rousseau in which people make certain compromises in order to live in society together
What the Social Contract?
The legislative body which tasked itself with creating France's first constitution following the Tennis Court Oath
What is the National Assembly?
The Haitian revolutionary who won military victories against England and Spain before creating a new constitution for Saint Domingue.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
A new type of transportation which allowed raw materials and finished products to moved rapidly over land
What is the railroad?
Document created in 1789, outlining a new set of rights for the French people
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen?
A natural right advocated for by John Locke which the French failed to provide to their colonial subjects in Saint Domingue
What is property?
The more moderate government which came in 1795 after Robespierre's fall
What is the Directory?
The French leader who wanted to reinstate slavery in Saint Domingue, invading and reigniting war in the region
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
A group resistant to industrialization who vandalized and destroyed factory equipment
Who are the Luddites?
The group of poor French radicals who named themselves based on the fact that they did not have fancy britches (pants)
Who are the Sans Culottes?
Who is Montesquieu?
The period of civil unrest occurring in 1775 after a new policy deregulating the grain market caused prices to surge, making it hard for peasants to afford food.
What is the Flour War?
The revolutionary leader who declared Haiti independent in 1804
Who is Dessalines?
Laws which privatized communal grazing lands, forcing poor farmers to move to the cities and find work in factories
What are the Acts of Enclosure?
The indigenous group who originally named their home island Ayiti, inspiring Haitian revolutionaries when they named their new country
Who are the Taino?