The French revolution and the Haitian revolution had many similarities. In 1791 The French and Haitian revolutions coexisted both trying to overthrow the French Government . The French at this time were in the process of making a new government based on equal rights by making a new constitution. At the same time in Haiti an outraged enslaved population were getting ideals from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and were about to take action of their own. The French revolution and the Haitian alike began with inspiration from prior revolutions and their ideology (such as the American revolution).
“Saint-Domingue Number Two” The Haitian Revolution was one the most influential transformations that took place in the early nineteenth century. Toussaint Louverture, the founding father of the revolution, inspired many Americans and slaves to revolt and speak out for the abolishment of slavery. In Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution by Matthew Clavin, it is explained how the memory of the Haitian Revolution, along with Toussaint Louverture, helped ignite the fire within Americans to start the Civil War and how the revolution impacted the war’s transformation. During the Antebellum South, slavery became so vital that southern slave owners were willing to fight to keep their slaves. While Inventions, such as the cotton gin, enhanced the necessity for slaves in the south, slavery was disappearing from the rest of the world.
The Enlightenment ideas of equality for men, human rights and dignity are said to have inspired the Haitian revolutionaries. One slave in particular, Toussaint L’Ouverture a freed slave and slave owner is said to have been strongly influenced by Enlightenment ideas and modeled his new nation on French ideals of freedom and citizenship. Speaking of French ideals, before the revolution, France was ruled by an absolute monarchy, but the new ideas originating from the Enlightenment era included ideas about freedom, the common people’s right to govern, equality, and other democratic ideals such as religious tolerance and freedom of speech. The unrest among the classes was caused by these new ideas of government and their potential to improve society and the everyday lives of the people by eradicating poverty, unemployment, and hunger that was present in France before the Revolution. In 1789, the French people took matters into their own hands, ultimately ousting the king and launching a republic three years later.
Cortes’ Motives for Conquering Mexico Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador, conquered a vast empire in Central America. Born in 1485 in Medellin, located in Western Spain, he originally studied law but left to the Americas in hopes of gaining power, making a fortune, and spreading Christianity, and was determined to attain what he wanted. Cortes’ motives for conquering Mexico were political, financial, and religious. Cortes had a strong desire to achieve political power, setting out to Mexico to attain it since his power in Cuba was already limited. When Cortes first moved to Cuba in 1511, he assisted Diego Velazquez, Cortes’ brother-in-law and governor of Cuba in his conquest of the island.
“Explain why the Use embarked upon a period of expansionism from 1895 to 1918.” Through the years of 1895 to 1918, the Unites States of America experienced plenty of events that resulted in it becoming a world power. For example, in the early 19th century, in the USA, an economic and social process’ was in full effect which was to exploit Africans and other immigrants into cheap labored work. This was a significant event in America’s economic expansion. However the Westwood Expansion did not last and was abolished, due to many reasons including, Mexico abolishing slavery in 1929, due to it seeming to lower the influence of American settlers in Texas (Mexican territory). Numerous factors triggered America’s climb into both economic and social expansion.
Why the South Lost the War In the days of the American Revolution and of the adoption of the Constitution, differences between the way of life in the North and South were put on hold by their common interest in establishing a new nation. As time passed in this young nation, sectionalism steadily grew stronger. Even though America had already been through a revolution for independence, the vast differences in ideals forced war to break out in the divided nation. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. The twenty five remaining other states, in which slavery had been recently abolished, became known as the Union.
Dominican Republic History: 1821-1916 In 1821 the once-vibrant economic powerhouse known as the Colony of Santo Domingo began its fight for what is known as the Ephemeral Independence, but this was not to last. By 1822 the newly independent Haitians were fearful that the French would use the eastern portion of the island to mount an attack on Haiti, and re-establish slavery. Under the leadership of Jean Pierre Boyer, the Haitians invaded the eastern side of Hispaniola, outlawed slavery, and unified the island once again. However, conditions under Haitian rule were no better than they had been under the Spanish, and a growing part of the population became dissatisfied with the situation. In response, Juan Pablo Duarte, together with fellow patriots Juan Isidro Perez, Pedro Alejandro Pina, Jacinto de la Concha, Felix Maria Ruiz, Jose Maria Serra, Benito Gonzalez, Felipe Alfau and Juan Nepomuceno Ravelo, formed a secret society called La Trinitaria on July 16, 1838, aimed at undermining Haitian rule on the island.
Europeans conquered America and then brought slaves from Africa and made their own benefits. They started a new political system named democracy, which is a good name to cover Plutocracy and deceiving common people by the word freedom, to reinforce their social power and positions. As this democracy, which was made by the elites, went on, the elites have conquered other parts of the world through war which seemed legitimate by democracy. Moreover, they have continued slavery that changed into the form of labor. American history has been continued by contradictions which are mixed by slavery, conquest, democracy, and freedom.
Colombia Colombia history is full of fantastic adventures and discovery but, is also filled with discrimination and falls. From Colombia’s indigenous peoples to Spain’s conquest and to their fight for impendence and revolutions is a great story in Colombia’s history. The pre-Columbian era in Colombia were inhabited by the indigenous people the Musica. The Musica developed the political system of cacicazgos a pyramidal structure power which is similar to the Aztec culture. The Musica were very organized they farmed maize, potato, quinoa and cotton, among many others.
For example, altogether, they execute a large group of people such as the Natives in Cuba, Dominica, and Mexico, and those who weren’t in the massacre was turned into slaves; and those whoever refused to convert to Christianity. Spain’s motivations for colonial expansion were trade and spread Christianity and explored East Africa; Later, when they discovered rich trading regions in Indonesia. That alternative route was different from the theoretical eastward route, which lead them to the British Empire and they offered to support. England colonized in the Americas began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas and they have settled in Antarctica