Atlantic Revolutions and their Echoes (1750-1914)

            On 4^th of July 1989 France celebrated the bicentennial famous Revolution in Paris.  The French revolution inspired communist government, as well as other revolutions.  Then the Haitian Revolution occurred which is the first successful slave revolt in history.  The Latin American revolution was between the Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule was ended and the modern states of Latin America merged.  Other revolutionary outbreaks that occurred were in Europe in 1830, 1848, and 1870.  North America, France, Haiti, and Latin America all influenced each other to revolt.  Each revolution influenced the next because when individuals witness a people fighting for their rights and winning, they find the courage inside themselves to do the same.

            The Atlantic Revolution shares similar comparisons with the French Revolution, Haiti Revolution, Latin American Revolution, and North America Revolution.  The ideas were derived from the European Enlightenment shared in newspapers, books, and pamphlets.  The new ideas of liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism, and human rationality are examples of what the people would fight for.  For a long time people were being repressed and it was not until the first revolution occurred that slowly they all started to fight back.  Authority to govern derived from the people rather than from God or from tradition.  The few people who did not gain anything from the Revolutions are the women, slaves, Native Americans, and men with no property.  This angered many of the people which resulted in Atlantics movements that referred to “Democratic Revolutions.”