By the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution, the French colony of Saint Domingue was the most valuable colony in the Atlantic World. ... Considering the value of the colony, its loss was a tremendous blow to the French. ... To begin to understand how the revolution happened, it is necessary to look at the class structure that existed in the years before the revolution broke out in 1791 and how this structure created an atmosphere conducive to revolution. ... The spark that set it a flame was the events surrounding the French Revolution that began in 1788-1789 and the ramifications that th...

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By evaluating comparative efficiency, this essay will argue that the American Revolution is more radical than the Haitian revolution, despite appearances to the contrary. ... He also points out that, in 1789 at least, San Domingo was the pride of the French empire. ... That the Haitian revolution was violent should come as no surprise, considering it was inspired by the French one. ... Compared to the Haitian revolution, the American was relatively peaceful. ... Not only did the Revolution not stop this process, it encouraged it. ...

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After the Americans had a successful revolution, the French decided to raze the absolute monarchy and redesign their country's political system (1789), in search of democracy, nationalism, and equal rights for all. ... Haiti, a French slave colony was the first to follow the United States to Independence, through the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). ... These people held several meetings to plan the revolution, they gathered at the Alondiga de Granaditas to plan the independence revolutions. ... The slaves that were treated in unthinkable and inhumane manners by the French were ...

• Word Count: 1312
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He writes about the security imposed by the French rulers and how it left the country in a continuous cycle of debt. ... In the beginning of the 18th century, the Spanish ruler had given control and colonization of Haiti to the French. ... The French came to this position by putting the slaves to work. ... The change of politics in France was influencing the changes that would occur in Haiti. ... Maybe Dubois does not use the term caudillo to identify any leaders of the Haitian Revolution because the term is closely related to persons in the Spanish American wars, but I argue that the term doe...

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Within Europe, the industrial revolution had created social distress and unease on the population. ... Thirdly, the industrial revolution which had left a surplus population allowed for colonial states to send out people to the settlements in Africa. ...

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Joseph Ellis opens up "Founding Brothers" by explaining "No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed to inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution" (Ellis 3). He claimed the American Revolution was inevitable because of those who were urging for independence tried everything they could to gain independence. ... When the founding brothers "created a seal for the United States they produced a national emblem depicting Americans of English, Scottish, Irish, French, German and Dutch. ... Ellis also explains that Madison knew the &qu...

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Washington had faith in overcoming the French scouting gathering. ... Washington's conviction of crushing the French was fulfilled when the French crushed the British at Monongahela River. ... Washington's real quality was the American Revolution. ... He battled amid the French and Indian War, and his boldness made him a living legend. ... This miracle some who felt we owed a more prominent loyalty to France. ...

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Rather, he asserts that the ongoing arguments between Republicans and Federalists, individualists and nationalists, or Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians, regarding the ideological "true" meaning of the American Revolution, have been developed into the foundation of the United States, and have severely affected its future. ... The topic of assumption of state debts by the federal government illustrates the broader argument of federalism versus republicanism, and has continued as an American economic disagreement many years after the American Revolution. ... The Republicans claimed that assumption ...

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However, this view began to change toward the end of the eighteenth century, when the American and French revolutions' rhetoric emphasized the rights of individual man, when Rousseau began to speculate man's natural nobility in an uncivilized state and the romantic poets began to show appreciation of poetic imagination attuned to the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". ...

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In 1815, after pressure from the British, France and the Netherlands agreed to ban the slave trade and Portugal agreed to end it after a few years.   ... The workers never understood or they rejected the idea that they had to take up the demands of the freed slaves as the program of the revolution. ... In the second decade, one person was lynched every five days, and in the third, one every nine days-. 5 "The workers never understood or they rejected the idea that they had to take up the demands of the freed slaves as the program of the revolution. ...

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He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he proves that a uniquely American culture was forged not from the fire of the Revolution, but instead from the dynamic changes that occurred during this often-overlooked period. ... Poverty in the colonies thus increased, fueled not only by the efforts of cutthroat capitalists at the top, but by warfare with the French and a continued influx of European immigrants. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

But when Napoleon forced Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France Jefferson got worried. ... The public enlightened Jefferson during the revolution and Jackson during the war of 1812. ... At this time many other southern American countries had their own revolutions and Spain was forced to take their troops out of this region. ...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School