Intro to Haitian Revolution

In 1493, on the island of Hispaniola, Columbus established the first Spanish settlement in the Americas. It was called ...

• La Bamba

• La Marina

• La Isabela

• La Playa

Recall: Both of these landmark events happened in the year 1619, in the Americas. (Choose 2)

• Arrival of first enslaved Africans

• First smallpox pandemic

• First legislative assembly (democracy!)

• Payment of first taxes by colonists

If the French Revolution is the birth of modern politics ... then Thomas Paine represents change and THIS MAN represents tradition.

• Edmund Burke

• Jean-Paul Marat

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

Which European "Enlightenment" thinker believed that our God-given natural rights included life, liberty and property*?

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• John Stuart Mill

• John Locke

• Antonio Gramsci

Which formerly enslaved man emerged as a leader of the Haitian Revolution in the early 1790s?

• Jean-Jacques Dessalines

• Toussaint Louverture

• Nat Turner

• Vicente Guerrero

Which European nations were at war with France in the early 1790s - and even sent troops to Saint-Domingue?

• Portugal & Netherlands

• Russia & Germany

• Spain & Britain

• Denmark & Sweden

Louverture had been fighting on the side of Spain. What led him to switch sides - and fight with France instead?

• French leaders successfully bribe ($$$) Louverture

• Spain rejects his attempt to become King of Haiti

• Louverture determines France has superior army.

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  French National Assembly abolishes (ends) slavery

Which leader reinstated (brought back) slavery after the French Revolution, in 1802?

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Francois Mitterand

• Philippe Petain

• Napoleon Bonaparte