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COMPARE & CONTRAST THE OUTCOMES OF FRENCH & AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS
Outcomes France USA
Outcomes Monarchy-Louis XVIII Federal Republic
Important Documents Declaration of the Rights of Man Constitution/ Bill of Rights
Causes -social inequality-financial crisis
-taxes-”No taxation without representation”
Radical• Guillotine• De-Christianization
Much more conservative
REMINDERS• I/O Circle Tomorrow
• Essay due Friday ( see wiki)
• DBQ Wed
• Thursday Review Day
• Friday Chapter 29 test
Inspiration of American & French Revolutions
Declaration of Independence, 1776
Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen, 1789
• Saint Domingue was a French colony ( sugar &coffee plantations) produced 40 % of worlds sugar
• 90% of population were slaves working under brutal conditions
• 40,000 whites, 30,000 gens couleur, 500,000 black slaves
BACKGROUND
• Gens de couleur- free people of color as well as mulattoes
• Maroons- escaped slaves
TERMS TO KNOW-
• Boukman- Voudou priest, led 12,000 slaves in rebellion killed white settlers, burned their homes, destroyed plantations
REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS
• Former slave
• Skilled organizer, and military commander, wrote constitution 1801
• In 1802 he was captured , then died in French prison
TOUSSAINT-LOUVERTURE 1744-1803 “BLACK GEORGE WASHINGTON”
• Only successful slave rebellion in history !
• In 1804 Haiti was declared independent ( the 1st republic in Latin America)
• US did not recognize the new republic
OUTCOMES OF HAITIAN REVOLUTION
• Inspired by the Enlightenment
• Tensions between Creoles & peninsulares
• Napoleon invaded Europe causing confusion and & opportunity to rebel
CAUSES OF LATIN AMERICAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE
Simón Bolivar: The Latin American George Washington”
Creole who was inspired by Enlightenment
Led military campaigns against Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Tried to unify S. America into Gran Colombia
EFFECTS OF LATIN AMERICAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE
• Free from Spain by 1825
• Power continued to be in the hands of Elite( caudillos, Creoles, military leaders)
• “More independence than freedom”
THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION IN THE CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA WAS LAUNCHED IN:
A. Haiti
B. Argentina
C. Cuba
D. Colombia
E. Jamaica
IN LEADING THE REVOLUTIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA, SIMON BOLIVAR ADVOCATEDA. that Spanish colonial rule be replaced with an indigenous monarchy
B. that ethnic nationalism be the basis of the new states
C. the popular sovereignty
D. the abolition of slavery and full male suffrage
E. all of the above
REVOLUTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA WERE FREQUENTLY A POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN WHAT TWO GROUPS?A. masters and slaves
B. peninsulares and creoles
C. European and indigenous peoples
D. Europeans and mestizos
E. colonial militias and European mercenaries