1. Haitian & Latin American Revolutions
AP World History
Chapter 29
Test is Friday

2. Compare & Contrast the outcomes of French & American Revolutions
France
USA
Constitutional Monarchy-Louis XVIII
Federal Republic
Important Documents
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Constitution/ Bill of Rights
Causes
-social inequality
-financial crisis
-enlightenment ideas
-taxes
-”No taxation without representation”
Degree of Change
Radical
Guillotine
De-Christianization
Much more conservative
Key People
-Max Robespierre
-Jacobins
-Louis XVI
Washington
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson

3. Reminders
Review tomorrow
Friday Chapter 29 test

4. 16c-18c: New Ideas Brewing in Europe

5. Inspiration of American & French Revolutions
Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen, 1789
Declaration of Independence, 1776

6. Enlightenment Thinkers

7. European Empires: 1660s

8. Latin American Revolutions!

9. Background
Saint Domingue was a French colony ( sugar &coffee plantations) produced 40 % of worlds sugar
90% of population were slaves working under brutal conditions
“French Revolutions 1st child”
40,000 whites, 30,000 gens couleur, 500,000 black slaves

10. Terms to Know-
Gens de couleur- free people of color as well as mulattoes
Maroons- escaped slaves

11. Revolutionary Leaders
Boukman- Voudou priest, led 12,000 slaves in rebellion killed white settlers, burned their homes, destroyed plantations

12. Toussaint L’Ouveture:
“Slave revolt sends France a jolt” (1804)

13. Toussaint-Louverture 1744-1803 “Black George Washington”
Former slave
Skilled organizer, and military commander, wrote constitution 1801
In 1802 he was captured , then died in French prison

14. Outcomes of Haitian Revolution
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

15. Causes of Latin American wars of Independence
Inspired by the Enlightenment
Tensions between Creoles & peninsulares
Napoleon invaded Europe causing confusion and & opportunity to rebel

16. Provides a model & a diversion!
Napoleon on the March
Provides a model & a diversion!

17. 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

18. Bolivar’s Accomplishment

19. The Caribbean: An “American Lake”

20. 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”

21. The first successful revolution in the Caribbean and South America was launched in:
A. Haiti
B. Argentina
C. Cuba
D. Colombia
E. Jamaica

22. In leading the revolutions of South America, Simon Bolivar advocated
that Spanish colonial rule be replaced with an indigenous monarchy
that ethnic nationalism be the basis of the new states
the popular sovereignty
the abolition of slavery and full male suffrage
all of the above

23. Revolutions in Latin America were frequently a power struggle between what two groups?
masters and slaves
peninsulares and creoles
European and indigenous peoples
Europeans and mestizos
colonial militias and European mercenaries

24. In Latin America, leaders who were called caudillos
were those most sympathetic to the old regimes
ruled without the cooperation of the church
were personalist leaders who held power without constitutional sanction
were chosen by popular election
were the sons of rich industrialists