Chapter 17- Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes

This chapter mainly focuses on the Atlantic Revolutions. What was interesting to know was that the Atlantic Revolutionaries shared a set of common ideas. As we know the atlantic became a useful resource for cultural exchange but the ideas that were going across the ocean were in newspapers, books, and pamphlets. Ideas weren't only sent through these sources but there were also new ideas of liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism, and human rationality. As we can see a little bit of everything was shared during the time. Many of these ideas seem to generate controversial amongst the people. Throughout the chapter we learn about the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and lastly about the Spanish American Revolutions and what were the causes of them. As we read through the book we are able to see that the American Revolution as a conflict between the united thirteen colonies and Great Britain. The French Revolution had conflicts within their own society and offended many of them and it lead into being a more violent than the American Revolution. The Haitian revolution was a conflict with the French colony of Saint Domingue and lastly the Spanish American Revolutions which took place in spanish and portuguese colonies and their revolutions took place in events in North America. Overall, by the end of the chapter we learn that these revolutions benefited from them and supported themselves as well especially because in the end it was a representation to the new world.