Unit 2 Vocabulary - Events

A mostly bloodless revolution in 1688 in which James II was deposed and replaced with William and Mary of Orange. Led to the English Bill of Rights of 1689.

• Glorious Revolution

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

• Haitian Revolution

Movement within Western Christianity that posed challenges to the Roman Catholic Church that would culminate in the creation of new branches of Christianity

• Glorious Revolution

• The First Great Awakening

• Protestant Reformation

• Columbian Exchange

Numerous wars against Spanish rule in the Americas during the 19th century with the aim of political independence.

• Latin American Revolutions

• Spanish - American War

• Seven Years War

• American Revolution

Global conflict between Great Britain and France that included other European powers for colonial dominance and territory - known as the French and Indian War in North America

• American Revolution

• War of Austrian Succession

• Seven Years War

• World War I

Series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists, mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom.

• American Civil War

• Spanish Civil War

• English Civil War

• Irish Civil War

Acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, the US doubled its territory.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Napoleon Complex

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

An ideological and political revolution which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783.

• American Revolution

• French and Indian War

• Middle Passage

• Jamestown

The period that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended in November 1799 with the formation of the Consulate. Led to the dissolution of the monarchy and the rise of Napoleon.

• Haitian Revolution

• French Revolution

• American Revolution

• Mexican Revolution

One of the basic charters of human liberties, containing the principles that inspired the French Revolution.

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

• the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804, was the overthrow of the French regime by the Africans and their descendants who had been enslaved by the French and the establishment of an independent country founded and governed by former slaves

• French Revolution

• American Revolution

• Haitian Revolution

• Jamaican Revolution