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The Enlightenment thinkers were Voltaire,Hobbs,Locke,Wollstonecraft, Montesquieu, Rousseau these thinkers ideas were highly influential to ideas of government
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General assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems. It ended when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.
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Period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
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The National assembly was locked out of town hall so they broke into a local tennis court and took an oath to make a new constitution
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The first act of the Revolution and it instilled a lot of fear within the upper class people in Prince. This became a symbol of harsh monarchy.
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The National assembly in France made a new Constitution so the Constitution made it Louis XVI became a limited monarch and gave more rights and freedom to men
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L'Ouverture formal slave and created a Constitution that guaranteed to abolish slavery and declared independence with France than Napolian invaded St. Dominique eventually after many years of fighting Napolian had to pull all his soldiers from the entire Western hemisphere
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There were many attacks on St. Dominigue prior during this rebellion they were able to control the island many people died on both sides from fighting but the slaves still managed to keep control
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Maximilian rovespierre gained power over the national Assembly and gives the orders to have Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI
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Robes Pierre takes his power too far and executes many people in France the people were tired off blood shed and decided to execute him and draft a new version of the constitution
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Also known as the War of the South, was a civil war from June 1799 to July 1800 between the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, a black ex-slave who controlled the north of Saint-Domingue modern-day Haiti
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It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting. The franchise was restricted to “active” citizens who paid a minimal sum in taxes; about two-thirds of adult men had the right to vote for electors and to choose certain local officials directly. The constitution lasted less than a year.
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“After having learned of the Constitution I give it my approbation. The invitation of the Central Assembly is an order for me. Consequently, I will have it passed on to the French government for its aproval. As for as its execution in the colony, the wish expressed by the CentralAssembly will be equally fulfilled and executed.” says president Borgella
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Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name. ... In 1804, General Dessalines assumed dictatorial power, and Haiti became the second independent nation in the Americas. Only Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonial forces
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Creoles organized revolutionary governments that proclaimed some social and economic reforms in 1810, and in Venezuela they openly declared a break with Spain the following year. ... By 1815 the independence movements in Venezuela and almost all across Spanish South America seemed moribund.
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In the early 19th century, Napoleon’s occupation of Spain led to the outbreak of revolts all across Spanish America. On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launched the Mexican War of Independence
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South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”).
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Gran Columbia, that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern Central America from 1819 to 1831. The state included the territories of present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela, and parts of northern Peru and northwestern Brazil. The term Gran Colombia is used historiographically to distinguish it from the current Republic of Colombia,[2] which is also the official name of the former state.
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Spanish colonies to struggle for independence between 1810 and 1821. But Peru remained loyal because of the conservative attitude of the Peruvian aristocracy, the presence of many Spaniards in Peru, the concentration of Spanish military power in Lima, and the effective suppression of Indian uprisings. Peru’s independence was, consequently, achieved primarily by outsiders.