Key Concept 5.3
The 18th century a time marked with great rebellion and many revolutions against many existing mother countries of imperial colonies. These period is truley marked by ANTI-IMPERIALISM.
Enlightenment questioned all things and established traditions in all ways of life.
Some major influences include
- Voltaire
- Rousseau
Logical thinking became more and more put before any religious contemplations or traditions.
-Enlightened thinker formed new political ideas about individualism, rights.
- John Locke
- Montesquieu
- Revolutionary Documents include.
- American Declaration of Independence.
- The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- Bolivar’s Jamaica Letter
All of the new ideological theories and enlightenments influenced ways of change which then leads to the abolishment of slavery, more suffrage, and the end to serfdom.
National Communities
The ideas of one common language and culture created national identities and communities. Thus, borders were created and governments to divide the populi.
The Marthas challenged the Imperial Mughal Sultans.
Revolutions:
- American Revolution
- French Rev
- Haitian Rev
- Latin America Independence Movements
Resistance Movements when it came to slaves challenging existing authorities
-the estab of maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.
Other movements include
- The Indian revolt 1857
- The boxer rebellion-
Religious Rebellions include
- The Taiping Rebellions
- The Ghost Dance
- The Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement
Responses:
- Tanzimat movement
- Self-Strengthening Movement
As the the idea of enlightenment and thought separated and stopped the likes of slavery, and imperialism it also showed up In women’s suffrage movements.
There are also new developments of liberalism, communism, socialism.
Demands for women equality, with the emergence of the new Feminism fevor:
- Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Olympe de Gouge's "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen"
- The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848
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