The Atlantic Revolutions Review

Which revolution started first?

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Latin American

Which American founding father was also the U.S. ambassador to France, encouraging French reformers and revolutionaries?

• Simon Bolivar

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• George Washington

Inspired by ideas of the social contract, natural rights, liberty, and equality

• All Atlantic Revolutions

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Spanish American

Toussaint L'ouverture led this revolution

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Spanish American

Partially caused by high taxation on the third estate, this revolution ends with an emperor (or king)

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Spanish American

Independence movements here started later, partially because of class divides and the fear of rebellion from classes like mestizos

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Spanish American

Despite Bolivar's efforts, these movements never resulted in a "united states"

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Latin American

This revolution led to the world's "most democratic country", and gaining independence, but the economy and rights of most people didn't change until much later (a second revolution/war was needed)

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Latin American

In this revolution, the National Assembly called for equal rights for all men in their founding document- the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Latin American

Driven mostly by harsh conflicts and burdens within society, like resentment of the monarchy's and aristocracies privileges, rather than colonial tensions

• American

• French

• Haitian

• Latin American