Revolutions Vocab

Loyalist

An American colonist who stayed committed to Great Britain and King George

Unalienable

A person's basic rights that cannot be taken away by another person or government

Estate

Division of French society before the French Revolution (Ancien Regime)

Estates General

Legislative assembly of the different French classes called by Louis XVI that met to try to fix France's financial problems

National Assembly

French revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the third estate that demanded the King to make economic reforms

Casta System

System of racial categories that had legal and social consequences. It was organizing principle of Spanish colonial rule

Peninsulares

A person born on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal) who lived in Latin America

Creoles

A person born in Latin America to parents who are peninsulares.

Caudillos

Military dictators who took power after the Latin American revolutions; used violence and charisma to gain and maintain power.

Monroe Doctrine

US policy that warned European nations that further colonization or control of the Western hemisphere was off-limits to Europe.

Grand Blancs

Rich white french people on Haiti usually owned plantations.

Petite Blancs

poor whites

Affranchis

free people of color

Maroons

Hatian slaves who escaped and joined the revolution

abolish

to put an end to