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Atlantic Revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - from Austria
      - wanted a balance of power
- - - - reign of terror
      - run by Robespierre
      - tried to install the legislative body
      - executed King Louis for trying to flee France
      - dechristianized
      - mass conscripted slaves because they were being invaded
      - their Constitution of 1793 was overthrown by the National Convention
    - - people need a savior from the political fragility left behind from the Jacobins
      - great leader o battlefield so they figured he could help them in the government as well
      - seized control of gov. without any bloodshed
      - first console of France (self proclaimed)
      - wanted to turn Frane into a world power
      - made a new code of laws: the Napoleonic code
        
        suppressed secular church power
        
        all male citizens are equal
        
        women subordinated to men
        
        allowed divorce, granted few protections to women if there was one
        
        extremely limited women's rights
        
        still somewhat in effect today
      - made education a top priority
      - abolished serfdom and freed the Jews
      - opened up carriers and army positions to people who's skills best fitted their occupation (meritocracy)
      - used secret police to spy on enemies and keep allies in check
      - censored propoganda so it was portrayed that French citizens are have an easier/better life than other countries
- - - - influenced by enlightenment ideas
      - Napoleon conquered Spain and Portugal
      - unraveled Spanish colonies in New World
      - took Portuguese royal family off the throne and replaced them with his brother
    - - Haiti was rebelling but he decided it would be too costly to loose them
      - tried to invade Haiti by sending his armies
      - extremely bloody on both sides
      - the Haitians win when Napoleon is overthrown in mainland Europe