REVOLUTION RAHHHH WHAT IS PEACE

Modern World History jajaja (French and Haitian Revolution???)

Three Estates

makes up the Old Order (1st: Catholic Clergy, 2nd: Nobles, and 3rd: everyone else)

King Louis XVI

second son (not meant to be king as his older brother dies)

Estates-General

gave power to 3rd Estate (1789)

Marie Antoinette

the quissential princess (jewel of Austrian royalty)

Versaillles

the palace where Marie Antoinette had her own “playhouse” built

“Tennis Court Oath”

creates a new constitution

National assembly

declares that French king is no longer king

Bastille

where a Parisan mob storms (a prison)

Declaration of the RIghts of Man and Citizen

delcared that anyone living in French territory had equal rights and abolishes the Old Order

Constitutional Monarchy

cut ties with Catholic church and abolishes feudalism

Maximilien Robespierre

highly educated lawyer, extremely good orator, loved the ideas of enlightenment, advocated republicanism, became a leader of the 3rd Estate, and pushed for the execution of Louis XVI

“Cult of the Supreme Being”

new religion based on god and enlightenment ideas

Hispaniola

large Caribbean island

Saint Domingue

French territory from 1987-1804

gens de couleur

mixed race and free people of color

planters

white people

sugar

product that Haiti’s economy relies on mainly

Haitian creole

a mix of French and various Niger-Congo languages

Haitian Vodou

religion mixing Christianity and traditional African religion

Boukman rebellion

extremely violent slave uprising

Touissant Louverture

led the rebellion

Leger-Felicite Sonthonax

agrees to free all slaves on behalf of France

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

second in command to Louverture