This section covered the atlantic revolutions. The big European powers: Britain, France, and Spain were the big bad boys. They all dealt with conflicts from the land they were controlling. These atlantic revolutions were very closely connected to each other. They had common ideas; "the ideas that animated the Atlantic revolutions derived from the European Enlightenment and were shared across the ocean in newspapers, books, and pamphlets"(783). The revolutions were common in some ways but also very different... they were triggered by different circumstances. In the North American Revolution, the people form North America wanted to free themselves from the ruling go the British. Reading on the French Revolution though...it seemed to be much more violent. I remember learning about this in high school as well. Very bloody. Then there was the Haitian Revolution and the Spanish American Revolutions where like in many revolutions, there was exclusion and oppression. All this fight against slavery and justice was huge.
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