https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p Revolutions in Haiti, Germany, and Brazil en-us 2021-10-06 14:39:04 UTC 2021-10-11 14:12:08 UTC hello@padlet.com 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1796762842 2021-10-06 14:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1796762842 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1796767759 ^{Haiti was home to more slaves than any place except Brazil. Being a slave in a sugar-production colony was exceptionally brutal, as well. Slaves made up of about 90% of the Haiti population, and most were born in Haiti due to the cruel conditions. Due to the Haitian society, white slave owners were at the top of the social pyramid and slaves were at the very bottom. In 1791, National Assembly gave full French citizenship to all men of color. A fight broke out between the newly free French people of color and the poor white people, resulting in a slave revolt.}]]> 2021-10-06 14:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1796767759 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800081023 2021-10-07 14:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800081023 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800087969 ^{Led by the former slave Toussaint l'Overture, the enslaved would act first, rebelling against the planation owners. Toussaint then goes on to conquer the rest of island, as well as fighting off both French and British forces. French Troops ended up capturing Toussaint, resulting in him dying in prison. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of l’Overture’s generals and himself a former slave, led the revolutionaries that led to Haiti's independence in 1804.}]]> 2021-10-07 14:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800087969 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800089601 2021-10-07 14:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800089601 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800537905 2021-10-07 17:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800537905 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800544508 ^{During the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon created the Confederation of the Rhine out of his conquests in Germany as the war progressed German speakers began to feel a sense of unity. And eventually when Napoleon was on the retreat Germans from all states, particularly students in the Lutzer Corps, began to volunteer to fight for the Prussians against France in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. A German Confederation was formed, however, it was ineffective at stopping the rivalry between Prussia and Austria and calls for the unification began to grow stronger.}]]> 2021-10-07 17:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800544508 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800547066 2021-10-07 17:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800547066 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800963639 2021-10-07 21:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800963639 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800965796 The German Confederation was the loose association of 39 states created in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries. In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire.]]> 2021-10-07 21:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800965796 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800987715 2021-10-07 21:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800987715 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800988238 Brazil's independence differed from the rest of Latin America in that it was: declared and led by the Portuguese regent in Brazil, who became emperor. Leaders of Latin American independence revolts were generally: moderates, who wanted some democratic institutions but feared the masses.]]> 2021-10-07 21:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800988238 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800989104 2021-10-07 21:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800989104 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800989700 2021-10-07 21:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800989700 25bagshawella https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800989872 ^{Brazil entered nationhood with considerably less bloodshed than any of the other Spanish-speaking nations of the New World; however, the transition was not entirely peaceful. The Portuguese prince regent Dom Joao, who was later king, decided to take refuge in Brazil, making it the only colony to serve as the seat of government for its mother country. In 1820, King Joao became preoccupied with a situation when radical revolts erupted in Lisbon and Oporto. On April 22, 1821, he appointed his son Dom Pedro regent and two days later sailed for Lisbon. Dom Pedro convoked a legislative and constituent assembly, and on September 7, he proclaimed the independence of Brazil; he was crowned emperor on December 1.}  ]]> 2021-10-07 21:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/25bagshawella/wquihsq25a43uw0p/wish/1800989872