Ch 17 Vocab Ec

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Tupac Amaru

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The last Inca emperor; in 1780s, a Native American rebellion against the Spanish Control of Peru took place in his name.

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Third Estate

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In prerevolutionary France, the term used for the 98 percent of the population that was neither clerical nor noble, and for their representatives at the Estates General; in 1789, the Third Estate declared itself a National Assembly and launched the French Revolution.

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The Terror

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Term used to describe the revolutionary violence in France in 1793-1794, when radicals under the leadership of Maximillien Robespierre esecuted tens of thousands of people deemed enemies of the revolution.

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Elizabeth-Cady Stanton

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Leading figure of the women's rights movement in the United States.

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Seneca Falls Conference

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The first women's rights convention, held in 1848.

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Petit Blancs

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The little or poor white population of Saint Dominique, which played a significant role in the Haitian Revolution.

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North American Revolution

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Successful rebellion conducted by the colonists of parts of North America (not Canada) against British rule (1775-1787); a conservative revolution whose success assured property rights but established republican government in place of monarchy.

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nationalism

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The focusing of citizen's loyalty on the notion that they are a part of a nation with a unique culture, territory, and destiny; First became a prominent element of political culture in the 19th century.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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(1769-1821) Emperor of the French. Responsible for many French Revolution reforms as well as conquering most of Europe. He was defeated at Waterloo, and died several years later on the island of Saint Helena.

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maternal feminism

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Movement that claimed that women have value in society not because of an abstract idea of equality but because woman have a distinctive and vital role as mothers; women have the right to intervene in civil and political life because of their duty to protect/watch over the future of their children.

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Louverture, Toussaint

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First leader of the Haitian Revolution, a former slave (1743-1803) who wrote the first constitution of Haiti and served as the first governor of the newly independent state.

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Latin American Revolutions

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Series of risings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1826) that established the independence of new states from Spanish rule but that for the most part retained the privileges of the elites despite efforts at more radical social rebellion by the lower classes.

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Hidalgo-Morelos Rebellion

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Socially radical peasant insurrection that began in Mexico in 1810 and that was led by the priests Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos.

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Hatian Revolution

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the first and only successful revolutionled by slaves, begins in full In 1789, France is "on fire" with new ideas of theEnlightenment that assert the "Rights of Man." The French Revolution is led by men such as Jean-Jaques Rousseauin 1791. But it is rooted in theFrench Revolution. The slave revolts begin on August 22, 1791.With over 100,000 slaves in

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Haiti

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a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola

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gens de coleur libres

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Literally, " Free People of Color"

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French Revolution

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an uprising of the people that led to the end of the French monarchy and the beheading of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. america happy until violence ensues under the reign of terror

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Freetown

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West African settlement in what is now Sierra Leone at which British naval commanders freed Africans they rescued from illegal slave ships.

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Estates General

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a. Louis XVI called for a meeting of the Estates General in 1789 to solve the financial crisis b. Each of the three estates received one vote c. First Estate- clergy less than 1 percent of population, no taxesd. Second Estate- nobles 2% of population, no taxese. Third Estate- bourgeoisie, workers, peasants, 97% of population; high taxes not privileges/power

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Declaration of the Rights of Women

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A short work that modeled the Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen that wrote about how women should be treated the same as other people. It pleaded equality amongst all.

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Creoles

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In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas, the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.

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Abolitionist Movement

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An international movement that between approximately 1780 and 1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world; the movement was especially prominent in Britain and the United States.