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+# Revolutions during 1750-1900 (mostly 1776-1822)
+
+## Historical Context
+- Americas revolution = democratic, enlightened
+  - Enlightenment ideas
+  - Fighting against oppression
+- Haitian Revolution
+- Latin American Independence Movements
+
+## Atlantic Revolutions
+- Shared common ideas
+- Atlantic basin = intellectual & cultural exchange
+- Printing press
+- "Human actions can improve systemic flaws"
+
+## American Revolution
+- Launched Declaration of Independence in 1776
+- Made constitution in 1787
+- Hope to increase liberties
+  - Britain unfairly taxes colonies
+- French government assists colonies
+  - Probable reason for winning
+- Brits tried to replace self-government
+- Salutary Neglect
+
+## French Revolution
+- 1789-1815
+- Soldiers inspired
+- King Louis XIV
+  - Absolute Monarch
+  - Creates Estates System
+    - 3 Estates: Clergy, nobility, and commoners (97-98%)
+    - Commoners taxed more than other estates combined
+- National assembly of foreigners forms, claiming sole right to lawmaking
+  - Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
+  - 1st, 2nd estate exclude 3rd.
+    - 3rd estate bands together in "Tennis Coourt Oath"
+  - Civil conflict much more radical than American (because led by commoners/middle class)
+    - Censored
+  - Storm Bastille to take weapons
+- Reign of Terror
+  - Robespierre leads arrests and execution of nobility
+  - He too is guillotined.
+- Napoleon Bonaparte
+  - Tames the revolution
+  - Founds army from commoners' nationalism
+
+## Haitian Revolution
+- Saint Domingue
+  - Rich French Colony
+  - Mostly Slaves
+- Toussaint Loverture, a former slave, runs the revolution
+
+## Latin American Independence Movements
+- Decentralized, Plural
+- Overthrowing racial hierarchy
+- Against Spain, led by elite
+  - Bolivar's letter from Jamaica to Britain requests aid against France
+- Class Division
+  - Oppressive Taxes
+- Mexican Revolution by Hidalgo and Morelos (Priests)
+  - Have to unite social classes against elite despite many-tiered hierarchical divisions