Understanding Western Society
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REVOLUTIONS IN POLITICS
1775–1815
>What led to the great revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and how did these revolutions change over time? Chapter 19 examines the great wave of revolution that rocked both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the last decades of the eighteenth century. The revolutionary era began in North America in 1775. Then, in 1789, France became the leading revolutionary nation. It established first a constitutional monarchy, then a radical republic, and finally a new empire under Napoleon that would last until 1815. Inspired both by the ideals of the Revolution on the continent and by their own experiences and desires, the slaves of Saint-
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1775– |
1793– |
– American Revolution | – Robespierre’s Reign of Terror |
1786– |
1794 |
– Height of French monarchy’s financial crisis | – Robespierre deposed and executed; France abolishes slavery in all territories |
1789 | 1794– |
– Ratification of U.S. Constitution; storming of the Bastille; feudalism abolished in France | – Thermidorian reaction |
1789– |
1799– |
– French Revolution | – Napoleonic era |
1790 | 1804 |
– Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France | – Haitian republic declares independence |
1791 | 1812 |
– Slave insurrection in Saint- |
– Napoleon invades Russia |
1792 | 1814– |
– Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | – Napoleon defeated and exiled |
1793 | |
– Execution of Louis XVI |