Haitian Declares Independence

Haitian Declares Independence

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Multiple Choice

This country pushed the idea of freeing slaves as it would harm France

• United States of America

• Great Britain

• Spain

• Haiti

Here Comes the French

French fleet of more than 50 ships and 30,000 troops sent by Napoleon Bonaparte arrives to re-assert French control

Open Ended

Why was Haiti so valuable to Europe (France)?

Think economic and agriculture.

French retake Control

French control established and truces agreed with leading black generals. French re-establish slavery in Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Toussaints Arrest

Louverture also made it clear that he believed that all that had led up to and befallen him since his arrest in June was due to the colour of his skin. ‘Without a doubt I owe this treatment to my colour’, he wrote. ‘But my colour, my colour, has it ever prevented me from serving my Country with diligence and devotion?’:

Toussaint found Dead

On the morning of 7 April 1803, Toussaint Louverture, leader of the slave insurrection in French Saint-Domingue that led to the Haitian Revolution, was found dead by a guard in the prison in France where he had been held captive for nearly eight months.

Multiple Choice

Toussaint Loveture was captured by this general and sent to jail in France

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Charles Leclerc

• Vincent Oge

• Henri Cristopher

Haiti attacks back

October– November 1802 Renewed revolt against French troops by black generals Dessalines and Christophe

Battle of Vertieres

The Battle of Vertières was the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, and the final part of the Haitian Revolution under Jean Jacques Dessalines. It was fought on 18 November 1803 between Haitian indigenous army, and Napoleon's French expeditionary forces, who were committed to regaining control of the island.

Multiple Choice

The Perception Gap can best be described as what?

• The deeply distorted understanding that Americans have between each other when it comes to politics

• The amount of distrust that Americans have between each other when it comes to the government's fiscal responsibilities

• The unified understanding that Americans have between each other

Dessalines declared Governor for Life

1 January 1804 Haitian independence declared, with Dessalines as governor for life. He later proclaims himself emperor

Multiple Choice

This document would declare the slaves of Saint Dominque free.

• Declaration of Independence

• The U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• The Haitian Constitution