AP World History Chapter 17 (Strayer)

1750-1914 : Successful Rebellion conducted by the colonists of parts of North America (Not Canada) against British rile (1775-1787); a conservative revolution whose success assured property rights but established republican government in place of monarchy. The American revolution was a struggle for independence from oppressive British rule, the struggle was launched with the declaration of independence in1776. resulted in an unlikely military victory by 178, and generated a federal constitution in 1787 joining 13 formerly separate colonies into a new nation.

1750-1914 : Massive dislocation of French society (1798-1815) that overthrew the monarchy, destroyed most of the French aristocracy, and launched radical reforms of society that were lost again, though only in part under napoleons imperial rule and after the restoration of the monarchy. Taking place in France, beginning in 1789. This was ideally launched by the Declaration of the Rights of Man. This revolution was much more violent, far-reaching and radical character than its American counterpart

1750-1914 : A document drawn up by the French National Assembly in 1789 that proclaimed the equal rights of all men; the declaration ideologically launched the French revolution. It forthrightly declared that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights" these actions unprecedented and illegal in the old regime. Along with launching the French revolution it also radicalized many of the participants in the National Assembly

1750-1914 : French head of state from 1799 until his abdication in 1814 (and again briefly in 1815) he preserved much of the French Revolution under an autocratic system and was responsible for the spread of revolutionary ideals through his conquest of much of Europe. He is often credited with taming the revolution in face of growing disenchantment with more radical features and with the social conflicts generated.

1750-1914 : The only fully successful slave rebellion in World History; the uprising in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Dominque (later renamed Haiti) was sparked by the French Revolution and led to establishment of an independent state after a long and bloody war (1791-1804)The ideas and examples of the French revolution lit several fuses and set in motion a spiral of violence that engulfed the colony for more than a decade. The principles of the revolution of the other hand meant many different things to different people.

1750-1914 : 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 ore radical social rebellion by the lower classes. Took place in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of the mainland.

1750-1914 : 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.

1750-1914 : The focusing of citizens loyalty on the notion that they are part of a "nation" with a unique culture, territory, ad destiny; first became a prominent element of political culture in the nineteenth century. Nationalists hoped to do away with disunity and foreign rule; and feminists tried to end, or at least migrate, male dominance. Proved to be an infinitely flexible and enormously powerful idea in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world and beyond

1750-1914 : The focusing of citizens loyalty on the notion that they are part of a "nation" with a unique culture, territory, ad destiny; first became a prominent element of political culture in the nineteenth century. Nationalists hoped to do away with disunity and foreign rule; and feminists tried to end, or at least migrate, male dominance. Proved to be an infinitely flexible and enormously powerful idea in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world and beyond

1750-1914 : A movement that claimed that women have value in society not because of an abstract notion of equality but because women have a distinctive and vital role as mothers; its exponents argues that women have the right to intervene in civil and political life because of their duty to watch over the future of their children.

1750-1914 : She was the leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States (1815-1902). She published a womens bible eliminating the parts she found offensive. As heirs to the French revolution, feminists ardently believed in progress and insisted that it must now include a radical transformation of the position of women.