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Haiti Terms & Qs
Midyear Prep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grands blancs and petits blancs: white people | GB top of hierarchy, lived off slave labor, enjoyed luxuries, controlled slaves, wanted more freedom from the french gov't, wanted to keep their superiority and goals of the french rev. PB next in hierarchy, white working class, poorer than gens de coleur |
| People of color | Gens de coleur: small planters, merchants and shopkeepers. wanted to keep freedom, slaves, privilege, adopted french cultural habits, and goals of the french rev. wanted more equality w/Grands blancs and french citizenship |
| Enslaved people | Africans: worked in fields, indoors, and in factories for the Grand blancs and gens de coleur. wanted to keep goals of the french rev. wanted to have freedom. |
| Cahiers (from Haitian Rev) | a set of written complaints against louis XVI (16). written by the people of color or gens de coleur. |
| Toussaint Louverture | born enslaved, but educated, earned his freedom. managed plantation: he ran the business, interacted with many Haitians, and used slaves as the labor force. Led Haitians to victory over the French and was the 1st leader of Haiti in 1797. Arrested in 1802 |
| Napoleon | Napoleon becomes 1st consul of France in 1799, dispatched 50 ships to Saint-Domingue to reimpose French empire in 1801, reinstates slavery in the FE in 1802. French Army driven out of SD in 1803 by revolutionaries |
| Sanctions | ban on buying certain products (ex oil) from a country. This particularly hurts a place like Haiti that relies on one or two major export products |
| Embargo | ban on imports and exports to another country. This leaves a country poor and probably not able to produce all the goods its people need |
| Tariff | a tax on imported goods. can protect country's economy by making imports expensive so people buy US made products (in our case). can hurt another country's economy |
| trade quota | a low limit on the # of products allowed into a country. ex. US puts TQ on french wine and only 100 bottles of wine can be imported. can protect country's economy by making imports expensive so people buy US made products. hurts another country's economy |
| International trade dumping | Country X sells their version of a product at a loss in country Y, as a result, Y's industry loses business and may collapse. Then X has a monopoly and charges much higher prices. |
| Independence debt | |
| Reparations | |
| How did the French Revolution and Enlightenment ideas contribute to the Haitian Revolution? | |
| Describe the social hierarchy in Saint-Domingue. | GB at the top, PB next, GDC 3rd, then enslaved people. Enslaved people made up 90% of the pop. while the other 3 made up 10% |
| What were some of the most important causes of the Haitian Revolution? | 1. brutality of the slave system 2. french rev, enlightenment, declaration of rights of man 3. demands to be treated as citizens that were published in cahiers 4. social hierarchy: GB PB and GDC only took up 10% of pop. 5. economic policy of mercantilism |
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