Haitian and Latin American Revolutions & Nationalism FlashCards

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Marques de Lafayette

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A French noble who fought alongside the Americans in the Revolutionary War. Upon returning to France, he led the call for reform and presented a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man to the National Assembly in 1789.

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Ancient Régime

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The old order system of government in pre-revolutionary France.

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Deficit Spending

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A situation in which the government spends more money than it takes in.

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Olympe de Gouges

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Author of the Declaration of the Rights of Women, she railed against the treatment of women in France, addressing her concerns directly to Marie Antoinette.

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Faction

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A group or clique within a larger group that has different ideas and opinions than the rest of the group.

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Jacques Necker

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Director of the French treasury before the revolution, he attempted to reform the country’s finances and tried to finance France's participation in the American Revolution through heavy borrowing.

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Tennis Court Oath

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A famous oath made on a tennis court by members of the Third Estate in pre-revolutionary France, creating a National Assembly and issuing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

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Storming the Bastille

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On July 14, 1789, French citizens in Paris stormed the city’s prison in search of weapons and ammunition to defend themselves.

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Main Causes of Latin American Revolutions

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Efforts of the Spanish monarchy to exercise greater power, sharp division of class, and peasant uprising.

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Creole

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In Latin America, Spanish people born in the Americas, descendants of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status.