PVH Unit 5 Vocabulary - Atlantic Revolutions

An American colonist who stayed committed to Great Britain and King George

• Conservative

• Loyalist

• Monarchist

• Revolutionary

Answer explanation

Loyalists refused to support the American Revolution.

The Declaration of Independence lists three ​ (a)   rights, which are basic rights that cannot be taken away by another person or government

• unalienable
• imperative
• inevitable
• important

The first and second _______ had almost all power in the Ancien Regime (ancient regime) in France before the French Revolution.

Answer explanation

The estate is a division of French society before the French Revolution (Ancien Regime)

This is the French revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the third estate that demanded the King to make economic reforms

• National Assembly

• Estates General

• Congressional Assembly

• Estates Assembly

Answer explanation

The National Assembly approved “The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen”.

The ​ (a)   ​ ​ (b)   was the legislative assembly of the different French classes called by Louis XVI that met to try to fix France’s financial problems.

• estates
• general
• social
• government
• class
• society

Answer explanation

In the Estates General, each estate had one vote, which angered the 3rd estate.

A goal of the Haitian Revolution was to _______ slavery.

Answer explanation

Abolish means to stop something from happening or to end something.

Match the following groups with their correct name.

• MAROONS

• Owners of the plantations, large- scale merchants; wealthy upper class whites.

• PETIT BLANCS

  ("Little whites")

• Enslaved people who escaped and formed communities; helped fight/plan the Haitian Revolution.

• GRAND BLANCS

  ("Big whites")

• Class of free people of color that had achieved economic success, but were discriminated against by whites.

• AFFRANCHIS

  (gens du coloure)

• Lower-class whites, included artisans, shopkeepers, overseers, and day laborers

This was a system of racial categories that had legal and social consequences. It was the organizing principle of Spanish colonial rule.

• Spanish System

• Racial System

• Social Classes

• Casta System

Answer explanation

The casta system privileged people who were closer in origin to Spain (i.e., the more “Spanish” you were).

A person born on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal) who lived in Latin America was called a ​ (a)   while a ​ ​ (b)   was a person born in Latin America to parents who are European.

• peninsulare
• creole
• mestizo
• indigenous
• European
• hispanic

Answer explanation

Many criollos encouraged revolution because they wanted the power of the peninsulares.

The ​ (a)   was a US policy that warned European nations that further colonization or control of the Western hemisphere was off-limits to Europe.

• Monroe Doctrine
• Monroe Decree
• Monroe Decision
• Latin Protection Doctrine

Answer explanation

The US promoted the Monroe Doctrine to exert power over the Western hemisphere.