Atlantic Revolutions

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The Atlantic Revolutions were a series of late-18th- and early-19th-century uprisings across the Americas and Europe that challenged monarchical rule and advanced ideas of liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical phenomenon
political movement
revolutionary wave
challenges hereditary privilege
monarchical rule
hasAltLabel Age of Atlantic Revolutions
hasApproximateEndDate circa 1830
hasApproximateStartDate 1775
hasConsequence emergence of nation-states in the Americas
inspiration for later democratic movements
reconfiguration of imperial systems
hasGeographicScope Americas
Atlantic world
Europe
hasKeyIdea constitutionalism
equality
human rights
liberty
popular sovereignty
republicanism
hasLanguageContext English
hasTheme anti-colonialism
citizenship
rights of man
slavery and emancipation debates
hasTimePeriod early 19th century
late 18th century
includesEvent American Revolution
Batavian Revolution
French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Irish Rebellion of 1798
Latin American wars of independence
Portuguese American (Brazilian) independence movement
Spanish American wars of independence
influencedBy Enlightenment
liberalism
social contract theory
relatedTo Age of Revolution
Enlightenment political thought
resultsIn codification of rights in written constitutions
decline of absolute monarchy in the Atlantic world
expansion of political participation for some social groups
independence of many American colonies
spread of republican governments
startsWith American Revolution
studiedInDiscipline history
political science

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Atlantic Revolutions ("Age of Atlantic Revolutions")
hasAltLabel
Atlantic world ("Atlantic revolutions")
hasKeyTheme
American Revolutionary War
partOf
The New World ("The Age of Revolution")
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