Atlantic Revolutions

Question 1

Similarities in All

Answer 1

Inspired by Enlightenment ideals (to some degree); Wars between major imperial powers created conditions that helped ignite the Atlantic revolutions; All interlinked (start with American - each created conditions for the next)

Question 2

Which atlantic revolution came first?

Answer 2

American Revolution

Question 3

Relation between French Rev. and American Rev.

Answer 3

Lavish spending of the French government when they helped the colonists during the American Rev. resulted in their own revolution

Question 4

Relation between French Rev. and Haitian Rev.

Answer 4

Haitian rev. occurred during the French revolution - opportunity to resolt

Question 5

Relation between Napoleonic Wars and Latin America Rev.

Answer 5

Created conditions for the people of Latin America to seek independence from Spain and Portugal

Question 6

Global effects of the revolutions

Answer 6

Revs. spread Enlightenment ideas (freedom, equality, popular sovereignty) -> Almost every state in the world recognized freedom + equality for all citizens + authority to rule was based on popular sovereignty

Question 7

Political effects of the revolutions

Answer 7

Consolidation of national states as principle form of political organization