Traditions and Encounters, 2/e

Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai'i
Herbert F. Ziegler, University of Hawai'i

REVOLUTIONS AND NATIONAL STATES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD

Study Questions


1		In what specific ways did the ideals of the Enlightenment challenge long-held assumptions about government and social order?



2		What specific issues and concerns led the British colonies of North America to revolt against their sovereign? What was the outcome of that rebellion?



3		What were the principal causes of the French Revolution of 1789? Were these concerns addressed by the revolution?



4		How was French society restructured during the most radical phase of the Revolution (1793--94)? Were these permanent changes, or short-lived ones?



5		Conventional wisdom holds that Napoleon ended the revolution when he proclaimed himself emperor in 1802. In what ways did he continue the ideals of the revolution? In what ways did he reverse the revolution?



6		What events led to the slave revolt of Saint-Domingue (Haiti)? Why was this rebellion successful when so many other slave revolts failed?



7		Describe the basic social structure of Latin American society in 1800. What factors led to the revolutions that followed?



8		What kind of states emerged in Mexico, Gran Colombia, and Brazil after the revolutions?



9		What factors led the western powers to abolish the slave trade and then slavery in the nineteenth century?



10		What was the impact of the ideals of the Enlightenment and the events of the revolutionary era on the status of women? Give some specific examples.



11		Compare the unification of Italy with the unification of Germany.

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