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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
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