AP®︎ European History: Topic 5.5 Flashcards

The 1789 declaration that proclaimed natural rights, legal equality, national sovereignty, and law as the expression of the general will

Revolutionary slogan linking freedom from arbitrary authority, equality before the law, and solidarity among citizens

Political participation by broad populations through crowds, petitions, demonstrations, clubs, print culture, and military mobilization

France’s wealthy sugar- and coffee-producing slave colony in western Hispaniola, where the Haitian Revolution began

The 1791–1804 revolt of enslaved and formerly enslaved people in Saint-Domingue that defeated France and created independent Haiti

Formerly enslaved political and military leader who defended emancipation, defeated foreign forces, and became the dominant leader of revolutionary Saint-Domingue

Paine’s 1791–1792 defense of the French Revolution, arguing that natural rights and consent of the governed outweighed inherited authority

Wollstonecraft’s 1792 argument that women’s apparent inferiority resulted from unequal education and that natural rights reasoning should include women

Burke’s 1790 critique warning that destroying inherited institutions in favor of abstract rights would produce disorder, violence, and tyranny

An ideology favoring order, inherited institutions, social continuity, and gradual reform over sudden revolutionary reconstruction

The effort to reverse revolutionary changes and restore an earlier political or social order