Chapter 17 - Revolution
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- aristocracy
- The class of a society made up of members of noble families, usually the most powerful groups
- Dolores
- A city in central Mexico where Miguel Hidalgo began Mexico's independence movement in 1810
- Reign of Terror
- The period 1793-1794 in revolutionary France when suspected traitors were beheaded in great numbers
- Marie Antoinette
- Queen of France from 1774 to 1792, who was executed during the French Revolution
- estates
- the three social classes into which France was divided before the French Revolution, including the clergy, the aristocracy, and the common people
- Simon Bolivan
- leader of the struggle for indepence in South america.
- divine monarchy
- the belief that a monarch recieved authority to rule from God and therefore could not be questioned
- Verailles
- a historic city in north-central France that contains thr ground place Louis XVI
- Hispaniola
- A Carribean island settled by Spaniards in 1493; a present-day island that is divided into the Dominican Republic and Haiti
- Venezuela
- A country in northern South America on the Caribbean Sea
- Latin America
- the cultural region including Mexico, the Caribbea, and South America that has been stronly infulenced by Spain and Portugal
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- A statement issued by the French National Assembly in August 1789 that all men were "born and remain free and equal in rights"
- Agustin de Itirbide
- Mexican soilders and leader; he won Mexican independence from Spain and became ruler of Mexico from 1822 to 1823
- Jose de San Martin
- Argentine soldier who led revolutions that freed Argentina and Chile from Spanish rule
- Miguel Hidalgo
- Mexicn priest ad revolutionary who led a revolt that started the Mexican war of independence
- Bastille
- A prison fortress in Paris that was attacked and destroyed on July 14, 1789, at the start of the French Revolution
- Louis XVI
- King of France from 1774 to 1792; executed during the French Revolution
- peasants
- a small farm owner or farm worker
- mestizo
- a person of mixed spanish and native american ancestry
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Haitian general in 1802 he led a succesful slave revolution leading to the independence of Haiti in 1804
- Paris
- capital and largest city of France
- absolute monarchy
- a form of government headed by a ruler, or monarch, with unlimited power
- Jose Maria Mavelos
- Mexican priest and revolutionary who suceeded Miguel Hidalgo as rebel leader and issued a declaration of independence from Spain in 1813. He was captured and killed by Spanish soldiers in 1815
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- French revolutionary general who became Emperor Napoleon I of France in 1804
- Industrial Revolution
- a time when great technological advances changed the way goods were made and the ways people lived; it began in England in the 1700s and then spread thoughout Europe and the Untied States
- Maximilien Roloespierre
- French revolutionary. He sent suspected traitors to the quillotine during the Reign of Terror from 1793 until his own death by guillotine
- revolution
- the overthrow of an existing government and its replacement with another; any sudden or very great change
- confederation
- a group of states or provinces under central government