World History Vocab #7

Men and women who agitated for a complete end to slavery. Their pressure helped end the British transatlantic slave trade (1808), slavery in British colonies (1834), and was a factor that led to the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Rebellion in the colonies of British North America inspired by democratic and other Enlightenment ideals. Its success led to the establishment of the first republic in modern times and became a model for a number of revolutions that followed.

The emergence of various movements of national consciousness within the territories of the Ottoman Empire. The ultimate goal was the creation of a nation-state with religion playing an integral part in forming each national identity.

In France, the class of merchants and artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of the French Revolution; in Marxist theory, a term referring to factory owners.

The money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization.

Document that set forth the American colonists' reasons for separation from Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson, the principal author, incorporated Enlightenment ideas such as "social contract" into the declaration.

A statement of the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

A statement of political and private property rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution.

The divisions of society in prerevolutionary France.

A belief in the political, economic and cultural equality of women. Many of its proponents in the early modern era specifically noted access to education, property and the ballot as critical to women's equality.