Chapter 30 Big Picture Questions

• Discuss the Haitian uprising. In what ways is this an expression of the ideals of the Enlightenment? In what ways did Haiti go further than the American or French Revolutions? Compare the Haitian revolution to the other revolutionary movements in Latin America. Who were the leading figures? What were their main goals?
• Under the ancien régime, the state was generally defined as the domain of the sovereign. How was this definition changed by the American and French revolutions? What are the elements of a national identity in the modern world? (And what is the place of minorities such as the Jews within this new concept of nationality?)
• Compare the positions of a conservative and a liberal in the nineteenth century on the nature of political authority and political change. What would each ideology say about abolition of slavery? About women's rights?