Chapter 16+ Chapter 16 Documents


February 23, 2020


  • The Atlantic Revolution took place in France beginning in 1789.
  • Thousands of French Soldiers had provided assistance to the American colonists and returned home full of Republican enthusiasm.
  • King Louis XVI called a session, representing the Estates General. Consisted of three male individuals that are Either from the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.
  • A few weeks later, they drew up the declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, which declared that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
  • Backed by a few male supporters, women also made serious political demands.
  • Women signed Petitions detailing their complaints: lack of education, male competition in female trades, the prevalence of Prostitution, the rapidly rising price of bread and soap.
  • The French Revolution echoed more loudly in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue, later renamed Haiti.
  •  The Echoes of Revolution was the abolition of slavery, Nationalism, and Civil Rights. It changed the course of history. If the Echoes of Revolution didn't happen who knows what would happen to today's history.
  • Enlightenment thinkers in eighteenth-century Europe had become increasingly critical of slavery as a violation of the natural rights of every person, and the public pronouncements of the American and French Revolutions about liberty and equality.


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