Ch. 16 Atlantic Revolutions p.798-811

Strayer explains the period of 1750-1954 which was referred as the nineteenth century because that time period encompasses the growing dominance of the West in the world. The echoes of revolution was the abolition of slavery, nations, and nationalism, and feminist beginnings. The period of 1750 and 1850 were a century of revolutions, during the atlantic revolution, political revolutions occurred in  North America, France, Haiti, and Spanish South America. During the Atlantic revolution all people were inspired by Enlightenment ideas and each person attempted to form Enlightened republican governments with varying levels of success. Enlightenment ideas that shaped revolutions was Liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism and popular sovereignty, and Human rationality. The Atlantic Revolution was revolutionary because the acceleration of democratic tendencies already present in the colones, lower property requirements for voting allowed more small landowners to vote and hold office, and the wielding of political participation eroded the traditional power of landed gentry.